The works in this survey show span the last three decades of the twentieth century; they function as an historical record of Johnson’s involvement in...
What has influenced your approach to art? It is hard to say, you are what you are and other things affirm what you are. Because...
Representations of women in visual art have historically defined female experience through difference, weakness, passivity, sexual availability, domesticity and, perhaps most unintelligent, an object to...
The designation of textiles and other ‘craft’ as women’s work is, by now, well-worn. Though the works that Florence presents, here, are paintings, they emerge...
In 2019, Dyer told Lucy Hawthorne that, in remission from cancer treatment, ‘what’s important is being here and getting on with your work…the exterior things...
Watson’s mirror (a history of energies), 2021, is unsettling in its perfection, its unlikely and delicate resolution of opposing categories. The sculpture brings the ‘natural’ and the...
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist...
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, Mason parked a car in Martin Place. The car resists observation, wrapped as it is in mirror film to...
I raise Sherman and Kruger here because in many respects Ces McCully is their direct descendant. Sherman, who utilised photographic self-portraiture, to question self-identity is...
Christofides’s new show ‘Parallel Universe: A Paradise of Images,’ at King Street Gallery, works between these modes of mark- and meaning-making. Christofides explores what it...
Certainly, a sense of wonder permeates many of these works. Pliable oils twist across the canvas, casting a glow of enchantment over the landscapes with...
The title of Hirst’s new work, Darling Darling, is double-edged. We might call somebody ‘darling’ affectionately, of course – but repeat the phrase and the tone shifts...
With Melville’s traditions as background, the eye roams over the delicate, fine lines and blizzard-like dots of Timothy Cook’s canvas’ surface.
Responding to the loss of her father, Pimpisa Tinapalit's upcoming solo at Grau Projekt, ‘Silence #1.5’, is a discussion of the beauty of death.
Asking where expressionist painting began is like asking who invented drawing. Historically, the Western expressionist artist is individualistic, the work not readily situated in specific...
Eleanor Louise Butt talks about the ways in which her works ‘speak’ to each other, conversing and sharing expressions across multiple planes until a melody...
Tu’u’s new work is, indeed, an exploration of resolution: visually, chemically, and perhaps in a sense more greatly abstracted. Developing the abstraction of his earlier...
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
David Griggs’ first solo show in Melbourne in eight years features a suite of painterly portraits responding to a socially and politically turbulent year.
Annabel Nowlan’s 'Vernacular' (2020) pitches linguistic and cartographic modes of meaning-making towards each other.
‘‘Til It’s Gone’ brings together a trio of Australian artists each approaching themes of ecology, geomorphology, time and ruin...
‘Barka: The Forgotten River’, recently presented at the Murray Bridge Regional Art Gallery, South Australia, is about symbiosis.
'Adrienne Doig: It’s All About Me!’, a comprehensive exhibition surveying three decades of the Blue Mountains-based artist’s practice...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that photographs in this article contain images of a deceased person.
