Ceramicist Amelia Lynch is based on the New South Wales Central Coast – a quotidian detail at first blush, perhaps, but one which extends beyond...
West works now in a studio in Brisbane. She’s surrounded in this environment by concrete, traffic, glitz. Many of her works recall beloved landscapes: the...
I’ve known Mick Richards since 1992. Knowing Mick is special, but it’s also – as the photographs in this exhibition testify – an experience that...
Honey Long and Prue Stent talk about their collaborative process and ongoing examinations of sexuality, femininity and the landscape.
One of Australia’s most respected artists, Syd Ball has been developing colour painting since the early 1960s when he set off to Manhattan to study...
The texture of the oil paint in Todd Jenkins’s Lunar Current, 2022, is at once delicate and densely packed onto the canvas. There is a sense that...
A wryly immersive exhibition with an accompanying series of public programs, Metaverse feels and thinks its way through the experience of being in – and, increasingly, of...
The youngest of four siblings, John Zerunge Young spent his childhood on the southern side of Hong Kong, in an art deco granite house that...
If you want a biography of Helmut Newton, look at the Helmut Newton Foundation official website or Wikipedia. It’s all there and it’s fascinating, but...
Bobbing & Weaving, 2022, the eponymous work in Telly Tu’u’s current show with James Makin Gallery, sets us swiftly moving through a garden of formal delights,...
First impressions can be deceiving. The impact of this tenth version of The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (the APT) was less of a...
The points of intersection between skyscraper windows in Manhattan sunset III, 2020, are live; they ring with a vibrant, almost spiritual, blue. Between them, white spaces where...
First Nations choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi writes about her life and practice, in her own words.
Donna Green’s beautiful Bacchanalia, 2022, is slung low beneath the weight of its own ripe fulness. Bulbous forms – at once like stone fruits, breasts, or camp...
While he may not be a household name, Craig Tuffin is a well-known identity in photography and teaching circles. Alongside two decades of practice as...
If you’d like to know what MONUMENTAL (working title) is about, perhaps Malcolm Whittaker can tell you. In three thirty-minute sessions over the course of this weekend,...
Sally Walk has spent over twenty-five years in clay: working (with) it, shaping it, and sounding the outer reaches of its formal and expressive potential....
How quaint these issues seem now, in a tentative post-Covid landscape. Because when the world locked down, the dubious, kitsch, compromised, and highly efficient marketing...
Bill Henson is preparing for an upcoming show. He says that “new pictures grow out of old pictures. With these recently completed works there has...
Kirk and Mitsuji share a vision of slowness as a many-splendored thing: as a poetics, as an aesthetic and a political sensibility, a way of...
During my last years of art school, at a critical point in my studies, on the verge of establishing my practice, a respected lecturer and...
A mindscape, by definition, is a panorama created within a person’s imagination. A mental landscape. But also importantly, it’s one that is capable of being viewed...
In what he has previously described as a “cutting of the umbilical cord,” the young Australian painter John Olsen travelled to Europe in 1956, setting...
With a self-proclaimed interest in science, Sarroff’s series Cyber Plants, 2017-21, examines the proliferation of growth in bioluminescence science, focusing on methods of genetic and fluorescent protein...
Some of my earliest memories are of the landscape. I moved around a lot as a child – six cities, ten houses and six schools...

