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...
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...
