Given national survey shows are often at the forefront of the art as cultural diplomacy model – showcasing, surveying, and value-signalling – this show embraces...
In Artist Profile 47, William Robinson told Louise Martin-Chew that his Creation landscapes “started in 1988 and contained both darkness and light. In 1991 our...
Alexakis and Janiszewski have made an interesting choice; two senior and respected Australian artists – of Greek and Egyptian heritage, born in Sydney, but with...
At the close of 2021, the National Association for the Visual Arts’ I Lost My Gig survey reported that some 32,000 lost work opportunities had represented a...
Within Puisque tout passe (This Will Also Pass), Hossein Valamanesh’s first European solo exhibition at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI), is a documentary that...
Hybridity is an integral part of Payes’s artistic practice, and over her professional career, she has combined her foundational photographic work with digital imagery, 3D...
I first met Lawrence in 1980, when I was a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design. I had of course seen his...
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you...
I found out about Burford’s practice through a mutual friend and former art dealer – the advisor Paul Judelson – at dinner a while back. Over...
I speak with Lisa Sammut from her Canberra studio. She tells me that the leaves of paper surrounding her in the space come mainly from the...
The online festival makes the film freely available here, along with other programmed features. As companions to the film, Rose and her collaborators produced...
This era started with watching people jump to their deaths from the Twin Towers on 9/11 and ended twenty years later, close to 9/11, when...
Watching footage of crowds running with the huge grey evacuation planes, some made it up onto the wheel hubs. Most were reaching for something to...
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where...
Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art returns for its sixth iteration in October 2021. Curated...
It’s 1996 and Fiona McGregor has been away for “almost a year.” She’s back in Sydney, sitting in the audience at Club 77 and watching...
Wollongong derives its name for the local Dharawal word “Woolungah,” and the city’s Gallery is an apt venue for the exhibition Birds & Language given...
Justine Varga’s rigorous and ruminative photographic practice transgresses conventional notions of photography.
In a statement accompanying the exhibition, Tillers notes that “It all began with the shock of a fire in 2019 which destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in...
In Germany alone, the home of Beuys, the anniversary is being celebrated with exhibitions in twenty-eight locations. Worldwide, there are exhibitions across all continents including...
For commuters in Sydney, 12 June 2015 was a sombre day. For it was on this day that the free, tabloid newspaper mX released their...
I first met David Gulpilil when we were both in our twenties, at Mataranka Caravan Park. David was dancing with a troupe from Bamyili Station to...
Most of The Actions of Storms; sleep movements, 2021, is taken up by black space – the deep, uninterrupted darkness that monotypes can produce. About four...
In Moruya Sunset 1, 2021, Yvonne Boag undertakes the painterly equivalent of holding the positive ends of two (or perhaps more – perhaps innumerable) magnets together. The...
