Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in...
The annual HERENOW series showcases some of the most exciting and innovative visual culture in Western Australia. Curated by an emerging curator, each year a...
Valerie Strong painted a great many landscapes, to varying degrees of abstraction. Night Garden, c. 1984, is one such painting. In it, you can see Strong’s...
Reuben Paterson was fresh out of art school when he left Auckland for Aviz, France, in 1997, to participate in the esteemed Moët & Chandon...
From the November 11 to 21, 2021, Explore Sydney Contemporary offers access to over eighty galleries, 500 artists, and 1700 works of art. Usually housed in...
What informs your work? I’ve been painting for a long time now. I finished art school in my mid-twenties and more or less lived on...
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably...
In Dr. Robert Luzar’s essay on Sensibilities we find the claim that “audiences view objects that, more or less, resist definition and medium specificity; these might appear...
conversations with my aunt, Cay’s current show with Anthea Polson Art, is named after the dialogue Cay wishes she could have had with her mother’s sister,...
The first thing that is surprising about Naomi Hobson’s Ritual – January First, currently exhibiting at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, is that it is a show of...
In Maggie Jeffries’s True Blue, 2020, a pair of eucalyptus branches reach toward each other. Across the canvas, these impossibly emotive plants seem to gesture...
Curatorial staff at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, of the University of Sydney, say that they started discussions for Sarah Goffman’s Applied Arts in 2018, “while we...
The success of Kevin Chin’s sellout first show with Martin Browne Contemporary, in 2019, was widely attributed to his of-the-moment impulse for political painting. His...
unfixed: σκιά σκιά σκιά ombra ombra ombra shadow shadow shadow brings together a meticulously assembled body of work by Naarm/Melbourne based photographer Rudi Williams. With unflinching...
Splashes of thick, dark paint – at once gestural and geometrical – obfuscate much of the imagery across Kelly’s most recent oeuvre. A vision of...
Drysdale’s The Patterning of Light: Breakaway Series II is both an observation and an observance of the natural world around the artist’s base in Fremantle, WA. It...
In a previous essay for Artist Profile, Andrew Frost took recourse to Joan Didion when thinking about Davies’s relationship to place. “The great chronicler of...
In recent months, video footage of empty CBDs – especially Melbourne and Sydney – has been circulating through my varied social media feeds. Populating this...
Melody Willis, who contributes catalogue text for this exhibition, attributes Munce’s interest in painterly abstraction in part to a residency in Leipzig in 2014, supported...
He’s known for intricately detailed sculptures and furniture, but Patrick Hall’s recent work, The Torn Whole, 2020, features crudely-sketched beasties with beady eyes, toothy mouths...
What comes to mind when Ballarat, the regional Victorian town in the Central Highlands northwest of Melbourne, is mentioned? The gold rush of the late...
Now in its third iteration, the Peebles Print Prize was established by Queenscliff Gallery with Graeme Peebles, a Queenscliff local and exhibiting artist with the...
Hall began her artistic life in oil painting, training first at the Queensland College of Art. At this early stage of her practice, her interest...
The box of paints in question was found by Ryan while moving out of the print studio at Barebones Gallery in Bangalow. As such, it...
Foley’s most recent body of work responds to the state of hyper-saturation which characterises our informational and affective lives in the present. Many of these...
