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...
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young...
Trevor Vickers has been working in abstraction for more than five decades, importing constructed visualisations onto canvas, offering ways of how the world can be...
From the poetic, sensual and playful to the fantastical, uncanny, and confronting, Del Kathryn Barton, Vivienne Binns, Pat Brassington, Louisa Chircop, Lynda Draper, Deborah Kelly,...
HOSSEI doesn’t always want to know what his work is about, “For me, it’s more about a feeling, and I want you to feel something...
The first biennale I ever attended was the 18th Biennale of Sydney (BoS) in 2012. I was fifteen at the time, and up until then...
“I have lived on or in proximity to Ngunnawal country most of my life, but I know that I will never have the detailed knowledge...
Fiona Somerville was born in Adelaide, where nineteenth century European settlers built a stately colonial city on the fertile coastal plain, surrounding it with a...
Ten years ago, the National Gallery of Victoria presented the first iteration of Melbourne Now: a “blockbuster” summer show featuring over 250 works across the...
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...
My first memory of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) was visiting the gallery as a young fellow in the early 1960s, with...
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...
Barberis and LeWitt first met in 1974. They became friends, and he remained a supporter and mentor to her until his death in 2007. Although...
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...
Around the same time that Daniel Boyd’s exhibition RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) opened at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, marking the multidisciplinary artist’s most comprehensive solo show in...
1970, the year Adam Hill was born, was a turbulent time of great change. It was time of the beginning of the Papunya Tula dot-...
“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...
What a curator is, and what a curator does, has been an evolving discussion over the past century, with the role and reach of curation...
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum...
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...
One of the most defining features of Emma Coulter’s work is her choice of colours, with the artist preferring to work with a limited palette...
