Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. – Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad...
You draw from a wide range of imagery and ideas. What are the major sources of inspiration for your works? The process for gathering content...
Isaac Julien confessed to Laura Barnett in a Guardian article in 2013 that he was a frustrated painter. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that his film and...
In PegLeg’s Ghost, 2021, three figures appear with bundles of cloth perching improbably on their heads. Neck-ache and gravitational dynamics aside, the nestling of lively...
In World Sick Hermit, Adam Lee presents a suite of new paintings that reframe concepts of interpersonal and intergenerational connectedness whilst interrogating the hierarchy of...
My Le Thi and Azo Bell’s Gukoongboom, 2021, occupies the expanse of the room it sits within at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. One of the first...
Given national survey shows are often at the forefront of the art as cultural diplomacy model – showcasing, surveying, and value-signalling – this show embraces...
In Artist Profile 47, William Robinson told Louise Martin-Chew that his Creation landscapes “started in 1988 and contained both darkness and light. In 1991 our...
Alexakis and Janiszewski have made an interesting choice; two senior and respected Australian artists – of Greek and Egyptian heritage, born in Sydney, but with...
At the close of 2021, the National Association for the Visual Arts’ I Lost My Gig survey reported that some 32,000 lost work opportunities had represented a...
Within Puisque tout passe (This Will Also Pass), Hossein Valamanesh’s first European solo exhibition at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI), is a documentary that...
Hybridity is an integral part of Payes’s artistic practice, and over her professional career, she has combined her foundational photographic work with digital imagery, 3D...
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you...
I speak with Lisa Sammut from her Canberra studio. She tells me that the leaves of paper surrounding her in the space come mainly from the...
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where...
Wollongong derives its name for the local Dharawal word “Woolungah,” and the city’s Gallery is an apt venue for the exhibition Birds & Language given...
Justine Varga’s rigorous and ruminative photographic practice transgresses conventional notions of photography.
In a statement accompanying the exhibition, Tillers notes that “It all began with the shock of a fire in 2019 which destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in...
For commuters in Sydney, 12 June 2015 was a sombre day. For it was on this day that the free, tabloid newspaper mX released their...
Most of The Actions of Storms; sleep movements, 2021, is taken up by black space – the deep, uninterrupted darkness that monotypes can produce. About four...
In Moruya Sunset 1, 2021, Yvonne Boag undertakes the painterly equivalent of holding the positive ends of two (or perhaps more – perhaps innumerable) magnets together. The...
Sydney-based artist Amy Dynan uses a harmony of figuration and abstraction within her gestural skyscape artworks, revealing her approach of maximum expressivity. Dynan has been...
The book Love Letter takes up the lyric mode of Nick Cave’s song of the same name, from the album No More Shall We Part. What, exactly,...
