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...
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...
As a director James Thierrée is a Dadaist, enamoured of nonsense and delighting in the disorientation produced by a profusion of discontinuous images, sounds and...
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...
Firstly, welcome back to Melbourne Tom! In early discussions about your work, Kate Nodrum told me that you’ve spent the past few years working in...
The title of your current exhibition at Sarah Cottier Gallery, new and unrelated works, brings to the fore an idea of modularity – or of...
When it became known last year that the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) had commissioned an artwork by a controversial American artist that few Australians...
With the sad news of Gordon Shepherdson's passing on 18 July 2019, we look back to Issue 42 when Louise Martin-Chew wrote about the artist's...
It would come as no surprise then, that my conversations with Abbey generally begin here. How could they not. Abbey has an ability to choose...
Katherine Hattam’s Melbourne house and studio sing with her paintings, in clear, bright sharply defined colours.
The sweep of this exhibition, from a curatorial perspective, seems to capture so much: a multi-layered topic, and both local practitioners and “big names.” How...
“I suppose it all started when my mother committed suicide, when I was five.” John speaks deeply, slowly, every word heavy with the weight of a...
