Since 1991, the annual Samstag Scholarship has awarded 146 Australian artists the opportunity to study overseas. It provides the space for artists to explore new...
When looking at Swedish artist Micke Lindebergh’s recent paintings, it is difficult not to feel a sense of joy. Relying on a carefully chosen palette...
From Paleolithic Venus figurines, whose creation dates from 26,000 to 21,000 years ago, to the Marian relics of contemporary Catholicism, childhood toys, and the kitsch...
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine...
You couldn’t practise full-time as an artist until you were 53. Would it have changed your practice to have more time to paint earlier? Shirley...
In one of Peter Poulet’s recent untitled paintings, something which could be a star sits in a space which could be a window to the night sky. These things...
Fiona Lowry’s artworks are contemporary renderings of conventional portraiture and landscape painting. Although she cites locations such as Belanglo State Forest and loosely references actual...
Humans have devised ways of creating sculptural forms out of almost any known or available materials at hand. Stone, metal, timber, glass and plastics. Hair...
In Fire Sutra II, 2021, two waves of light stream diagonally across the canvas. Modulations between light and dark on the whole, in this work, take on...
In Escarpment Study 1, 2021, cold blue light permeates the eucalypts. We are left to speculate as to whether this is shade or simply the cool light...
Curated by Pippa Mott, the show brings a distinctly contemporary context to bear on Debord’s psychogeography. Where Debord was concerned, primarily, with the urban environment...
In The Vigil (Nocturne), 2021, a set of fingertips emerge from a lace cuff, reaching across the painting’s frame to shine the light of a candle onto...
Surfers Paradise: an amalgam of Florida, Las Vegas and Disneyland, it’s Australia’s playground for everybody, a sunny retirement destination for the well-heeled from southern states,...
Badger Bates is a Barkantji Elder, a political activist and contemporary artist. Working primarily in printmaking, wood and stone carving, Bates’ practice is intrinsically linked...
In 2007, Gillian Sanbrook bought Bibbaringa, a 950-hectare property located in Wymah Valley on the south west slopes of New South Wales. At the time,...
In response to Amber Wallis’s Women, shown at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2020, Amanda Maxwell wrote: ‘I’ve never seen a ghost And won’t But if I was to...
Troy Emery’s practice is imbued with tactility that points to the role of animals and their forced complicity within contemporary life. Situating the works within...
Since she started making art, Manning’s subjects have included colonisation, sexual abuse, the intergenerational impact of the Vietnam War around the world, feminism and personal...
Having been known primarily as a photographer for most of his practicing life, Harold David has turned more and more to painting since 2017. Even...
In Jennifer Keeler-Milne’s Autumn Leaf IV, 2020-21, a single lace-like leaf casts a shadow down the blank field of picture space through which it falls. Keeler-Milne’s ‘Autumn...
Peter Godwin takes heart from Picasso’s famous line about Cézanne’s anxiety. It seems to justify his own late-blooming career as an artist who only began...
Next to his home in Goanna Ridge, Gulong, is Chester Nealie’s kiln. A few hours’ drive from Bathurst, where his works are currently shown, Nealie...
The oils streaked across the canvases in Rebecca Rath’s ‘Strange and capricious land’ series are robust; resistant. They hold their shape, appearing just like what...
Leyla Stevens makes moving images of ghosts. Working in both speculative and documentary modes of filmmaking, she finds and tells alternative histories, tracing the spectres...
When Ann Thomson spoke to Bridget Macleod in Artist Profile Issue 35 (2016), she explained that ‘I put my mind into neutral when I paint,...
