The genesis of Australia’s feminist art movement can be traced back to the 1970s, as one of its founders, art historian Janine Burke, recounts.
Among the many communities who are rallying together to support the victims of this season’s unprecedented bushfires, the artworld is playing its part.
James Mollison, who was born in 1931 and died Sunday 19 January, made an extraordinary contribution to Australian culture.
John McDonald examines how prices are reaching absurd new heights at the same time as taste in contemporary art is plumbing new depths.
In Issue 46, Judith Pugh discusses Peter Hill's elusive 'Superfictions', which exist in the gap between installation art and literary fiction.
In Issue 47, Ian Were writes a tribute piece about the contagious incandescence and vitality of his late partner, artist Debra Porch (1954–2017).
In Issue 45 Paul McGillick reflects on the colourful life of his brother; the late Tony's McGillick, whose passionate and expressive paintings celebrated the jouissance...
What Indigenous art needs most is a major exhibition in a world art capital, says John McDonald.
Artist Profile travelled to Charlottesville in the United States to speak with Jenni Kemarre Martiniello.
Salvatore Zofrea’s monumental ‘Day Cycle’ is a 122-metre long series depicting the energy of the day in four parts.
Sally Gabori was of the Kaiadilt people who came from Bentinck and Sweers Islands in the South Wellesley Islands, in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
No nation on earth can match Australia’s enduring love of art prizes. It reflects our obsession with sport, allied with the perennial Cultural Cringe.
A new partnership is bringing art out of the galleries and into the sleek foyers and corridors of the corporate world.
In Issue 38, Michael Young spoke to spoke to Mami Kataoka following her appointment as Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney
Disagreements over what we consider to be portraiture became intense when Justine Varga’s ‘Maternal Line’ won the 2017 Olive Cotton Prize for photographic portraiture.
Jeremy Eccles discusses the development, politics and complexities of indigenous printmaking in Issue 39.
Raphaella Rosella sees things as they are, instinctively, without embellishment. She’s a gifted visual storyteller, never allowing her images to stray into patronising or exploitative...
John McDonald decries the trend in New South Wales regional art galleries, where some local councils have tried to reduce costs by cutting back on...
But when it comes to curating group shows of contemporary art something seems to have gone seriously awry.
In the beginning things were simple. Over millennia, aesthetic expression was part of daily life with no self-conscious concern for art...
Is art education in Australia focusing on producing an epidemic of mediocre PhD theses that nobody reads, at the expense of vibrant artists well prepared...
John McDonald delves into Parkinson's a condition that is not only debilitating but also still carries a stigma. One which artist Bernie McGrath is upending.
Joe Kinsela speaks with SAM Director Rebecca Coates about the contemporary vision of Benalla and Shepparton - rural cities that are planning to expand...
