Let’s start from the beginning. When did you realise that being an artist was the career for you? I was always drawing as a child,...
I go backwards and forwards . . . I live between two worlds, in my head. Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at...
Likenesses are easy to draw between Carmichael and Ropeyarn: both are flourishing in their early-to-mid careers as artmakers, exhibiting in significant group shows across public...
A feline figure looks us almost in the eye in Beetle Spotting, 2018. Offering this slant gaze at once curious and evasive, the cat’s face...
It is not the first time I have seen the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in its planning stage, witnessing the potential...
Though it’s only the opening day of the Biennale, much has already been made of the “participants” – not so much the selection of international...
Penelope Seidler has a powerful public presence. Hers is what millennials would define as a “big life.” Involved and curious, she makes her way from...
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian...
There was so much about Peter Powditch that made him the quintessential male Australian artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in...
I thought I saw Eden brings together a suite of paintings produced in the aftermath of Sam Field’s journey throughout Far North Queensland. Interrogating the...
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter...
In a broadcast given for the 2021 churchie emerging art prize, where she was a Special Commendation winner, Mancktelow reflected on the absence on First...
Sculpture at Bathers is back for the fifth iteration of the biennial beachside exhibition from 19 February to 7 March 2022. A wholly Western Australian...
The show is billed as a celebration of the First Nations LGBTQIA+ community – surely a really diverse community in and of itself. Are there...
Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis....
There it is, striated beneath the blocks of pink – irregular, in a way which feels permissive – a few glimpses of green ground. This...
Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. – Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad...
You draw from a wide range of imagery and ideas. What are the major sources of inspiration for your works? The process for gathering content...
Isaac Julien confessed to Laura Barnett in a Guardian article in 2013 that he was a frustrated painter. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that his film and...
In PegLeg’s Ghost, 2021, three figures appear with bundles of cloth perching improbably on their heads. Neck-ache and gravitational dynamics aside, the nestling of lively...
It’s week three of another lockdown and for once, I am looking forward to my next Zoom of the day – my interview with Noonuccal...
In World Sick Hermit, Adam Lee presents a suite of new paintings that reframe concepts of interpersonal and intergenerational connectedness whilst interrogating the hierarchy of...
My Le Thi and Azo Bell’s Gukoongboom, 2021, occupies the expanse of the room it sits within at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. One of the first...
Given national survey shows are often at the forefront of the art as cultural diplomacy model – showcasing, surveying, and value-signalling – this show embraces...
