“Smashing the frame,” “moving past the border,” and “breaking out of our structures” are some of the expressions Kellie O’Dempsey uses to describe her need...
The notion of a contemporary art biennial as a site of refuge is appealing, if somewhat unexcepted, in our current climate. Biennials generally brim with...
Leah Fraser is enchanted by the universal psyche that has connected civilisations, both ancient and contemporary, throughout history. “It’s so interesting that as humans we...
So reads a wall text at the entrance to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Kandinsky, serving as a reminder that the artist’s aspiration...
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s iterative artistic practice is steeped in rich materiality and symbolism. Her detailed intricate works traverse landscape and spirituality, as well as her experiences...
The gallery is the project of art dealer and curator Cassandra Bird with her husband Fabian Jentsch, an exhibition maker, set designer and artist. As...
Such ignorance was symptomatic and systemic. In the introduction to his 2019 book The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga O Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley writes:...
“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...
Media and techniques juxtapose the technological/visual in terms of photography and the material/tactile in textile techniques. The dynamic relationship and binary tensions resulting from combining...
NotFair, Australia’s perpetually unruly alternative art fair, was founded in 2010 as a satellite event to the Melbourne Art Fair—thus Not The Fair, a title...
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...
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...
