Lauded for its higher dynamic range, analogue photography captures the ephemeral moment with all its nuance and detail. Colour for example is true to the...
“I am hoping to be a vector for empathy in a world no longer stable, where global ruins and war remind us of the way...
The exhibition title Shapes For Gods is taken from the painting of the same name. It is the pivotal work amongst a field of twenty-three...
The opportunity to write about Claudine Marzik’s impressive art practice is indeed a pleasure. On first seeing her work I was impressed by its refined...
“Surface. It doesn’t matter what you paint, your works are about surface.” In his Darlinghurst studio, surrounded by two decades of his work, Knight reflects...
Settler artists have long recognised the work of their Indigenous fellows – in the 1960s Australia sent a collection of Indigenous bark paintings to the...
In this year’s Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery will present a new exhibition Light Now featuring works from three Melbourne-based artists: Jenna Lee, Diego Ramirez, and...
Congratulations on winning the Packing Room Prize in the Hadley’s Art Prize. Can you tell me more about your work and the significance of its...
The Scottish born Australian artist looks straight at the camera, a no-nonsense flock of red curly hair frames her face, one hand is nestled in...
David Green’s works featured in We were all young once – and other things almost resemble etchings. Green uses a dip pen with Indian ink...
Artistic director, Francoise Lane, is an artist and designer herself whose practice spans textile design, visual, sculpture, and surface pattern art. Lane, in her second...
Up until recently this process was applied almost exclusively to copies of the book “Aboriginal Words and Place Names.” whereby I would tear, pulp, weave...
“Entombed in Joy” might be a contradiction in terms, but so are, in some sense, the paintings that it names. In Shen’s most buoyant body...
The task of writing about one’s process is a fraught one. For myself, there are many shifts of method and material between each exhibition and...
Floating Land, which l started in 2001, grew out of the European art-in-nature movement, and was based on the French event Le Vent des Forets....
Fox is clearly nourished by her practice, with a love of making that permeates and is influenced by all elements of her life. This can...
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work...
“Flight” is a compelling title for an exhibition. The word suggests transcendence. It calls to mind a kind of ideal: the half-formed notion that we...
Oceans of Air does many things, but all of them revolve around a central imperative: slow down. Tomás Saraceno plunges you into darkness on entering...
Modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Peter Booth render humans moving shadows, blended with their environs. Euan Macleod charts a different path. In his...
I’ve been hypnotised by drawings for as long as I can remember. My eyes are curious, always scanning the shapes of things, tracing repeat patterns...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current...
Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between...
You have a substantial history working in both film and contemporary art. How do you find traversing the two fields? Video art and film pose...
An artistic life was inevitable for Currey-Billyard, who descends from a “family of artists,” her mother a visual artist, and her father a collaborator who...
