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...
Our current issue, highlighting Reg Mombassa’s career, profoundly illustrates the impact that a diverse and rigorous Australian tertiary art education has had on other artists...
After reading Ben Quilty's reaction to his article in issue 35, here it’s Joe’s turn to reply in the debate.
Artist Ben Quilty takes issue with Joe Kinsela’s piece in the previous issue of ARTIST PROFILE on the proposed Sydney Modern extension to the AGNSW.
In the face of Sydney Modern, Historian of Australian architecture Joe Kinsela presents his Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Joe Frost explores a contemporary dilemma of the increasing prevalence of the 'artist-curator'
Incremental changes over time, together with the latest de-funding of the Australia Council, have seen the international residency program effectively destroyed.
Gazing across the nation’s landscape, artists have referenced the past, the future and the ever present, to gain a sense of place.
The Western world is seen as a throw-away society, where everything has a use-by date. But what of the art world?
An accessible online collection of cultural archives worldwide, the Google Cultural Institute marks an important step in the digitisation of arts and culture in Australia.
