We’re looking both down through history and up into a tentative mythology in Towers of the Goddess, 2018–22. Layers build upon each other as our...
Peter Hudson’s portraiture is some of his most celebrated work. Finely attuned to the sensibility of each subject, and working deftly with oils, Husdon captures...
In an introductory essay to the National Works on Paper exhibition for 2022, Jenna Lee writes that “paper is part of our everyday lives, and it’s that...
The subject of my paintings is often very personal, but I approach it with a sense of vagueness, allowing the materials to inform the work....
The central figure in Cats on toast, 2022, has their back to us, the checks on a flannel shirt giving perhaps the most telling clue...
Zofrea understood quite early in his development that music could nourish his creativity. He is as inspired by composers and performers as he is by...
Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface is titled after a phrase that Binns often used when discussing her works with Anneke Jaspers (senior curator, collection,...
Sachs was renowned as a rigorous practitioner as both an artist and a teacher. He had lectured in art since 1989 at the Victorian College...
Good ideas don’t have to be unnecessarily complicated. Painters on Pots is straightforward enough: find some artists who work with paint, and introduce them to...
What differentiates Female Drivers from the recent tide of exhibitions of women’s work – represented in their most block-busting form by the National Gallery of Australia’s...
For many Western Australians, Ross Seaton (1944–2020) was the “Walking Man.” He is a vivid memory, a point of reference, a marker in our unfolding...
Cartography, topography, even choreography: so much of what William Kentridge’s work does is graph. Thinking about his work like this, with an emphasis on the kinds of...
Everyone remembers epiphanies. They’re epiphanies! Whether they hit you in the mind, or in the body (or spirit), they are undeniable moments, sustained or fleeting,...
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings have always provoked the question of “where are we?,” with liquid boundaries between domestic and exterior domains, patchwork perspectives, and conspicuously constructed mises...
There is a cloud cluster pressed into the left of the frame in Afternoon Lake 4, 2022; it’s wound around the body of the tree...
Rendered any less quietly, the surfaces in Clara Hali’s Hip Hanger I might appear to slide across each other, or even to flit and slip, mercurially....
Perhaps I should not have been surprised by the number of pets present at UNSW Galleries for the opening of Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles &...
Dr. B. Marika was a very great Australian, a premier artist and fierce negotiator. She came from Yirrkala, North East Arnhem Land, the home of...
A Brisbane-based artist of the Bidjara, Ghungalu, and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, Harding’s work has a kind of interlacing historical consciousness that is hard...
Visually and conceptually compelling, Chehelnabi’s deceptively simple paintings subconsciously play with the mind. Executed in a raw, almost childlike style, his practice involves a surrealist...
It may not seem obvious that paintings – produced by the artist’s hand, and using his instantly-recognisable personal vocabulary of symbols and characters, and displayed...
In my studio in the Hawkesbury, I work in almost total solitude and I love it, so I’m sure these feelings were exacerbated by the...
Lauren O’Connor’s Twin Falls (Wodi Wodi Country), 2022, is tremulous: energetic, almost rapturous movements of the paintbrush across the canvas capture the vibratory energy of...
