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...
I took time out this morining to read Hermann Hesse’s book Siddhartha (1922) again after about fifty-five years since the first reading. Then I had to...
Waqar was looking very ill when he got back from hospital last night, but assures us the doctors think he is OK and does not...
Reuben Paterson was fresh out of art school when he left Auckland for Aviz, France, in 1997, to participate in the esteemed Moët & Chandon...
From the November 11 to 21, 2021, Explore Sydney Contemporary offers access to over eighty galleries, 500 artists, and 1700 works of art. Usually housed in...
I don’t accept things the way they are because it is more fun to make them something new. Picasso rearranged form; I rearrange the realities...
This morning we re-found the place where the 115-year-old Sufi Syed Baba G taught. He died in 2012 and his permanent resting place is in...
What informs your work? I’ve been painting for a long time now. I finished art school in my mid-twenties and more or less lived on...
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably...
Firstly, I must apologise. When I set out on this journey I envisioned by the end of this article I would be your hero, having...
In Dr. Robert Luzar’s essay on Sensibilities we find the claim that “audiences view objects that, more or less, resist definition and medium specificity; these might appear...
