Joe Furlonger was born in Cairns in 1952. He grew up in the rural (now semi-rural) Samford Valley near Brisbane. As an adult he worked...
Opera, in a school hall, the voices impossible and good, sudden throng of them lost in the bad acoustics, singers singing to a feeling they...
In Koops’s Double Binds #10, 2022, traces of oil paint are at once lyrical and jarringly inert. A creamy strip of what looks like fabric – maybe...
The Miniature Sculpture Show has hosted a staggering number of artists since its first iteration in 1996, held at the original Defiance Gallery premises in Newtown....
Here, Deborah Kelly’s collage characters are animated into ecstatic dance on the brink of political and environmental collapse. The Gods of Tiny Things was produced...
I’ve overheard your theory, “Nostalgia’s for geeks” I guess sir, if you say so, some of us just like to read One second I’m a...
“A lot of humans forget we are organic entities, the same as every other creature on the planet, and we’ve only been here for a short...
For his recent exhibition, Peter Hudson: The mystery of being here, the University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery has assembled fifty paintings and drawings...
A crisp artificial sheen settles on the contours of Angelica Mesiti’s face as she gazes at her laptop screen in a windowless room strewn with...
Having always drawn on his travels, Macleod naturally gravitated to the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo on return from a Broken Hill road trip...
By his own account, Weber grew up “in the midst of the plains of Minnesota, in a small town of about 30,000 people . ....
Melbourne artist Dean Bowen knows exactly when and why he decided to become a sculptor as well as a printmaker and painter. It was 1993,...
I am discussing Temple of Boom, this year’s NGV Architecture Commission, with Moore – who is the NGV Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture. The seventh...
The title Plant Your Feet comes from a poem, Bloom, by poet, Gunai woman, Kirli Saunders: Plant your feet like roots next to mine. Bloom...
A great number of artists produce artwork in their bedrooms, at the dining table or in their backyards. As some of the lowest-paid professionals in Australia,...
Your current exhibition with PICA, Las Hormigas/The Ants, includes work which audiences may have seen presented in different forms in a variety of contexts –...
I spoke with Vipoo Srivilasa about his upcoming exhibition at Olsen Gallery over beloved Zoom. The technology strongly embraced during the pandemic is not the only...
Work for this show has been devised in part while on residency at the Old Cheese Factory in Berwick. How did this space/place shape the...
In an upper corner of the home in which Rose works, a desk is laden – neatly laden – with the objects of her current...
When the Australian colonies began to build their first museums – inaugurated by what is now known as The Lady Franklin Museum at the foot...
In 2015, Park made Garden, a site-specific mixed-media installation which fused an imagined archaeological site with a consideration of the histories embedded in material culture....
The Open Collections Gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) has been operating since 1999. It functions as a discrete space within CMAG for collectors...
All elections bring forth a tumultuous change in the Australian society, as the old order is thrown out like confetti from a departing ship of...
In 2017, Angus and his wife, artist Liz Linden, decided to leave New York and move to California. “It was a period of consolidation, and...
Can you tell us a little about your work towards the Bluethumb Art Prize-winning photograph, Midas’ Daughter II? It’s funny, but I guess like many artworks,...
