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...
Matthew Cheyne has structured his life around family and home, both tethered to an art practice that is integral to who he is. Sustainability is...
Jørn Utzon was guided by the ideology that architecture is not an external form, but a frame enclosing a collection of ritualised events. For Mika...
“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...
The raw matter of Gabrielle Courtenay’s work often appears to her like a dream-like force. Branches, root forms, discarded household objects—these drop down or are...
“I think an experience is not something that just happens to us, it’s something we choose to do,” Olafur Eliasson opined. The Icelandic–Danish artist was...
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...
This playful approach is designed to keep a viewer interested, and he’s eager to throw them off the scent of how a work was made....
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...
Just as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed –...
The glass scene in Australia is rumbling, swelling. A jolt of new energy pulses through its crystalline veins as many contemporary artists are starting to...
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...
In 1974, Tony Shafrazi took a spray can and wrote “KILL ALL LIES” directly onto Picasso’s Guernica, 1937, hanging at the Museum of Modern Art...
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...
As we walk into the up-cycled meatworks where Richard Goodwin lives, the first impression is of a cabinet of curiosities splayed horizontal. On one table...
Sera Waters’s significance as a leading South Australian artist was firmly cemented in 2022 with two major projects exhibited at the Art Gallery of South...
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...
