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...
Sydney-based artist Amy Dynan uses a harmony of figuration and abstraction within her gestural skyscape artworks, revealing her approach of maximum expressivity. Dynan has been...
The book Love Letter takes up the lyric mode of Nick Cave’s song of the same name, from the album No More Shall We Part. What, exactly,...
Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in...
The annual HERENOW series showcases some of the most exciting and innovative visual culture in Western Australia. Curated by an emerging curator, each year a...
Valerie Strong painted a great many landscapes, to varying degrees of abstraction. Night Garden, c. 1984, is one such painting. In it, you can see Strong’s...
On his connection to the culture of the region, and his projects there, Gittoes writes: “During 1965, while in my first year at a new...
