“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...
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work...
“Flight” is a compelling title for an exhibition. The word suggests transcendence. It calls to mind a kind of ideal: the half-formed notion that we...
Oceans of Air does many things, but all of them revolve around a central imperative: slow down. Tomás Saraceno plunges you into darkness on entering...
Modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Peter Booth render humans moving shadows, blended with their environs. Euan Macleod charts a different path. In his...
I’ve been hypnotised by drawings for as long as I can remember. My eyes are curious, always scanning the shapes of things, tracing repeat patterns...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current...
Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between...
You have a substantial history working in both film and contemporary art. How do you find traversing the two fields? Video art and film pose...
The sociopolitical context Laycock was working in, from the post–World War II period onwards, witnessed Australia’s shifting alliance from England to the US. Laycock was...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent border control measures have abruptly severed Tasmania’s connection to the mainland, temporarily suspending that sense of not-so-far-awayness. With our parks...
Bowe’s art may at first recall the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich. We discern mist glazed heavens that offer visual cadences with Friedrich’s Wanderer above...
What is the importance of painting for you? By painting, I’m trying to understand or identify something, and in doing so it can be a...
Sea/Sky is named accordingly, with many of his exhibited works blurring the distinction between the sea and the sky, leaving his viewers questioning where does...
Dairy Character has been described in various statements as a “reflection” or “chronicle” of your experience growing up in a rural farming community in South...
Relationship. Joanna Braithwaite’s portrait of loved but departed Pepper, wearing a carrot, is in the “family portraits” section, with the recent Caroline Zilinsky Weimar Republic–referencing...
How would you present Night for Day, 2020, to those who would like to see it, but haven’t yet? Night for Day uses the fake...
My upcoming show, at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne, is a presentation of new paintings that explore the sensation of luminous colour with a focus...
Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 is an artist and researcher who asks many questions, and understands the transient nature of identity. She not only applies institutional critique...
Innately fuelled by emotional response, whether a portrait or landscape, Bergstrom’s work is always a fusion between an empathic approach to the environment and the...
For over sixty thousand years, Torres Strait Islanders have maintained ongoing connections to their lands, seas, skies, and culture. However, without immediate action, this will...
Entitled Finding Form, Graham Lang’s upcoming exhibition searches for primal encounters through paint and sculpture. The elusive title gestures to many things at once, perhaps...
