& i can’t help but notice his hips first, bumbag slung low, as the train doors open at Roxburgh Park. & i take in the...
Antoinette LaFarge’s Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation is a thought-provoking analysis into the realms of fictive art. LaFarge uses “parafact” for fiction...
Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is located at Abbotsleigh School, an institution historically grounded in particular kinds of knowledge, and ways of passing on that knowledge....
Nicola Mason left her former profession in conservation and land care in mid-2016, to focus full-time on her artmaking. A local to Wiradjuri Country in...
“Queer” is a complex and fluid term. Historically it meant “strange” or “peculiar,” but from the late nineteenth century it came to be used as...
Our practice plays with the changing nature of cultural capital by pitting the sacredness and precariousness of the “live” in performance against ways of commodifying...
Johnson’s engagement with her influences – abstract expressionism, post-impressionism, early modernism, Monet, Clyfford Still – is ambivalent, and yet unburdened with the irony that characterises a...
Three and a half hours from Sydney via the Blue Mountains, Kandos was built in the early twentieth century to support the NSW Cement, Lime...
In some senses, Alicia Mozqueira’s latest body of work speaks the language of still life: its visual vocabulary is full of darkness as a quality...
Comprising sixty-eight works by four artists in the heights of their careers, New Australian Printmaking encapsulates senses of both resolution and revolution. Revolving, the show explores a...
Two unique prints by Belinda Fox – printed with Trent Walter – have been generously made available to Artist Profile readers at AUD $1500, with 100% of the...
That the figure in Melitta Perry’s Birdwatching (Regent Honeyeaters), 2022, has her back turned to the viewer is emblematic of the artist’s approach to narrative. It’s emblematic,...
This presentation of the work itself is a re-imagination – or, a rebirth – of Nkiru’s original version of the film. Back in 2017, Nkiru...
Surf culture is not likely to be the first thing you think of when you think of Melbourne’s art world. Perhaps this is precisely the...
“We live in an overly anaesthetised society. A society that teaches us to fear pain, to fear complexity, to fear the messiness of internal spaces,”...
When you enter The Illawarra Pavilion at Wollongong Art Gallery, the experience is immediately tranquil. As one of the gallery staff enters a moment after...
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...
