I’ve ever wanted more than to write so I do now on a plane as it lurches into the sky through clouds that bump anxiety ...
The Paddington Art Prize, now in its nineteenth year under the leadership of founder Marlene Antico OAM, was established to encourage engagement with landscape as...
Are these strange lands? I recall a forum. Can you guess at me? Here we are embarking. It’s the mountaintop. My taxidermist was unnamed ...
I found the fox in a boxed grave of field – a bale of dandelions, wheatgrass, wild poppy and thistle. If it were possible for...
In his first-floor studio on the fringe of a large industrial estate on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi is crouched down in the middle...
James Gleeson’s expansive 1983 monograph on friend and sometimes-collaborator Robert Klippel opens with an except from the young artist’s journal on 23 October, 1945. The...
Your name is everywhere scrawled / tagged / engraved / typewritten on street signs maps stone walls scrolls ...
There was a day in the fourth grade that the first Apple II series computer arrived at our school. With hindsight, the functions were comical...
The 59th Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, opened this past April with a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The biennale,...
Plod plod park and bone Intone Drown deeply down Viscous waste uncouth veritable thunderstruck, tree top errr … Corduroy pine ads Oddments Ardent waistcoats Westerly...
Physical labour – especially the stubborn and repetitious kinds, like digging, planting, and painting – has a way of impressing itself down into the musculature of...
The American Southwest, as it exists within the white settler-colonist imagination, is loaded with complex and often contradictory narratives. Its low population density, heat, presumed...
Vicki Stavrou’s new body of work is sleek and sly. It both remembers and re-casts domestic life in mid-century modern style, conjuring a rich and...
Michael Vale’s paintings contain a melange of art historical references and symbols, from pipe-smoking dogs and skeletons, to surreal landscapes.
Seeing and Being Seen, William Yang’s latest project, has had a long gestation. It was first proposed by former Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of...
Uniquely gifted, she essentially invented her own Indigenous version of expressing culture through an entirely new artform – an art that broke long-established rules of...
Stolon Press is a small art press established in 2019 by Tom Melick and Simryn Gill. Melick is a writer, and Gill is best known...
Born in Tasmania to a Vietnamese father and an Australian mother, Mai Nguyen-Long grew up in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; as an adult,...
How do you picture your childhood? A lot of freedom. I was allowed to do what I wanted most of the time. Plenty of painting...
The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation was established a year after the artist’s death in 1970, from a bequest with a deceptively simple, yet open-ended...
In 1972, Jane Fonda was the hottest actress in Hollywood since Marilyn Monroe until she was photographed posing on an anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam. Despite...
Pinned to Georgia Spain’s studio wall is a cluster of postcards, photographs and magazine clippings. There are images of dancers, a game of tug of...
There are ‘isms’, movements and ‘schools-of’ in the artistic vocabulary that, over time and with compelling evidence, end up sticking like glue...
The nineteenth century practice of “blackbirding,” as it has euphemistically become known, consisted of the widespread removal – through both coercion and force – of...
Audrey Newton delves into the subconscious. Her creative process, she tells me, often begins with “extracting ideas from altered states, such as dreams, meditation, or...
