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...
conversations with my aunt, Cay’s current show with Anthea Polson Art, is named after the dialogue Cay wishes she could have had with her mother’s sister,...
The first thing that is surprising about Naomi Hobson’s Ritual – January First, currently exhibiting at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, is that it is a show of...
In Maggie Jeffries’s True Blue, 2020, a pair of eucalyptus branches reach toward each other. Across the canvas, these impossibly emotive plants seem to gesture...
Curatorial staff at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, of the University of Sydney, say that they started discussions for Sarah Goffman’s Applied Arts in 2018, “while we...
The success of Kevin Chin’s sellout first show with Martin Browne Contemporary, in 2019, was widely attributed to his of-the-moment impulse for political painting. His...
unfixed: σκιά σκιά σκιά ombra ombra ombra shadow shadow shadow brings together a meticulously assembled body of work by Naarm/Melbourne based photographer Rudi Williams. With unflinching...
Splashes of thick, dark paint – at once gestural and geometrical – obfuscate much of the imagery across Kelly’s most recent oeuvre. A vision of...
Big. Bigger. Biggest. I remember learning by rote these comparative adjectives back in primary school in Glasgow in the 1960s. Everything about the NGV Triennial...
The great 115-year-old Sufi Mystic Sayed Baba Gee who was featured in Miscreants of Taliwood, 2009, died in 2012. His father was a famous Sufi...
