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...
The term “biophilia” was first coined by psychologist Erich Fromm in 1964 to describe “a passionate love of life and all that is alive.” Human...
Natalya Hughes’s The Interior, now exhibiting at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, invites visitors into the weird half-public, very-private space of the analyst’s office. Here,...
Plastered across the press release for this survey show is a quote: “Every artist has their language – any half-decent artist has their particular handwriting,...
Professionally, the previous two COVID-19-addled years have been kind to Daniel Boyd. He is on the cusp of having his first solo survey show in...
“Look, I hate opening up like this,” Peter Godwin says. “It’s not that I find it difficult, but it’s like Matisse said: ‘Painter’s tongues should...
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing...
Michael Snape is probably best known as a sculptor. But he is, in fact, an artistic polymath – a painter, a writer, and an assiduous...
In 2017, Dani McKenzie’s work was imbued with a strange nostalgic melancholy. She was undertaking a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris...
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Winter Masterpieces series has been running since 2004. When looking at the full list of these exhibitions, it is striking...
One of Australia’s pre-eminent landscape artists, Mary Tonkin’s practice is centred around Kalorama, located on the outer-eastern fringe of Melbourne, adjacent to Mount Dandenong. Her...
I left for Islamabad knowing I was “going out on a limb” – that it could “all be for nothing,” and I may have to...
Of Anubis, jackals, dream, trample and stamp, looking for the amphibian that moves, through a glass darkly His armour shines, amid croaking sounds An attribution...
I’m Zinedine Zidane Not the French professional footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time I’m not the elite playmaker renowned...
The scenes in Balassa’s exhibition Waterfalls and Carol’s Garden are taken from two distinct locations: the wild bush garden of a neighbour, Carol, in Sydney’s...
Peter Sharp’s exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery is titled Signal, which, as the artist writes, “refers metaphorically to the collision of ideas and objects that...
