First impressions can be deceiving. The impact of this tenth version of The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (the APT) was less of a...
The points of intersection between skyscraper windows in Manhattan sunset III, 2020, are live; they ring with a vibrant, almost spiritual, blue. Between them, white spaces where...
Donna Green’s beautiful Bacchanalia, 2022, is slung low beneath the weight of its own ripe fulness. Bulbous forms – at once like stone fruits, breasts, or camp...
While he may not be a household name, Craig Tuffin is a well-known identity in photography and teaching circles. Alongside two decades of practice as...
If you’d like to know what MONUMENTAL (working title) is about, perhaps Malcolm Whittaker can tell you. In three thirty-minute sessions over the course of this weekend,...
Sally Walk has spent over twenty-five years in clay: working (with) it, shaping it, and sounding the outer reaches of its formal and expressive potential....
Kirk and Mitsuji share a vision of slowness as a many-splendored thing: as a poetics, as an aesthetic and a political sensibility, a way of...
A mindscape, by definition, is a panorama created within a person’s imagination. A mental landscape. But also importantly, it’s one that is capable of being viewed...
In what he has previously described as a “cutting of the umbilical cord,” the young Australian painter John Olsen travelled to Europe in 1956, setting...
With a self-proclaimed interest in science, Sarroff’s series Cyber Plants, 2017-21, examines the proliferation of growth in bioluminescence science, focusing on methods of genetic and fluorescent protein...
Some of my earliest memories are of the landscape. I moved around a lot as a child – six cities, ten houses and six schools...
Let’s start from the beginning. When did you realise that being an artist was the career for you? I was always drawing as a child,...
I go backwards and forwards . . . I live between two worlds, in my head. Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at...
Likenesses are easy to draw between Carmichael and Ropeyarn: both are flourishing in their early-to-mid careers as artmakers, exhibiting in significant group shows across public...
A feline figure looks us almost in the eye in Beetle Spotting, 2018. Offering this slant gaze at once curious and evasive, the cat’s face...
It is not the first time I have seen the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in its planning stage, witnessing the potential...
Though it’s only the opening day of the Biennale, much has already been made of the “participants” – not so much the selection of international...
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian...
I thought I saw Eden brings together a suite of paintings produced in the aftermath of Sam Field’s journey throughout Far North Queensland. Interrogating the...
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter...
In a broadcast given for the 2021 churchie emerging art prize, where she was a Special Commendation winner, Mancktelow reflected on the absence on First...
Sculpture at Bathers is back for the fifth iteration of the biennial beachside exhibition from 19 February to 7 March 2022. A wholly Western Australian...
The show is billed as a celebration of the First Nations LGBTQIA+ community – surely a really diverse community in and of itself. Are there...
Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis....
There it is, striated beneath the blocks of pink – irregular, in a way which feels permissive – a few glimpses of green ground. This...
