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:...
“I’ve only realised this within the past decade or so,” he continues, “but looking back, that’s really what it’s been the whole time.” Meade intuitively...
“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...
“The greatest darkness can often be concealed by an astonishing colour palette of pinks, reds and gold.” – Sabio. Sabio grew up in Railton in...
Kain migrated with her family from India to Australia in 1993, and during her childhood was shielded from the weight of the Indian caste system....
Jim’s commitment to the arts extended far beyond the walls of his paint manufacturing business. He recognized the struggles and challenges faced by aspiring artists,...
This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia...
What kinds of problems and what kinds of meanings happen in paint? What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting? . ....
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...
For each artwork, she constructs fictitious personas, notable for their uncanny artifice. It’s by means of these ambiguous characters and their uneasy actions, that Panegyres...
I have spent more than three decades working with artists and communities both in and outside gallery contexts. I find this work profoundly invigorating and...
To reflect appropriately on Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World I will apply the disciplines of Eastern Christian Theology, the dual modes of...
Wenders has taken remarkable care in realising this artistic epic. I watched it in 3D glasses at the Sydney Film Festival premiere, the whole time...
If the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition A Line A Web A World is anything to go by, drawing is a domain to which we still look...
Exhibitions of contemporary art are often slick, and in polished spaces, apparently emptied of elements save for the artworks we have come to see. A...
A Curve is a Broken Line is shaped by testimonials of Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar, and installed and curated by Isobel Parker Philip at the...
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...
Louella Hayes interviewed Lincoln Austin for issue 43 of Artist Profile in 2018. Lincoln Austin’s artworks invite their audience to experience a vivid world of optical confusion....
The point of intersection of the timeless With time is an occupation for the saint – No occupation either, but something given And taken, in...
In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and...
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...
The obituaries that appeared in the days after his death, online and in newspapers from London to Los Angeles, mostly focused on when he was...
“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 word “freedom” is at the centre of humanity – to be human is to be free, to relate to others, spaces, and places without...
Time is central to the art of Lyndal Jones. Working with durational practice, her installations include video, performance, theatre, dance, photography, and sound. Encounters with...
