Drysdale’s The Patterning of Light: Breakaway Series II is both an observation and an observance of the natural world around the artist’s base in Fremantle, WA. It...
Robert’s objects are still, but somehow immediate. They’re still, but they are alive.
When theatre director Katt Osborne encountered Tarryn Gill’s Guardians series of sculptures created for the 2016 Adelaide Biennale, she was drawn to their sense of...
Oh, such a pretty picture this Kingdom of the Crown A dark room wearing a costume packed in tight — light horsemen hanging around. Aching...
In a previous essay for Artist Profile, Andrew Frost took recourse to Joan Didion when thinking about Davies’s relationship to place. “The great chronicler of...
In 2011, George Gittoes and I were invited to speak at the World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression at Oslo about the Yellow House...
In recent months, video footage of empty CBDs – especially Melbourne and Sydney – has been circulating through my varied social media feeds. Populating this...
Melody Willis, who contributes catalogue text for this exhibition, attributes Munce’s interest in painterly abstraction in part to a residency in Leipzig in 2014, supported...
In 2012 in Bali and Java, Australian–Indonesian artist Jumaadi began collecting small one hundred–year–old vernacular timber houses. Some were decorated with ornate carvings; others were...
He’s known for intricately detailed sculptures and furniture, but Patrick Hall’s recent work, The Torn Whole, 2020, features crudely-sketched beasties with beady eyes, toothy mouths...
What comes to mind when Ballarat, the regional Victorian town in the Central Highlands northwest of Melbourne, is mentioned? The gold rush of the late...
Now in its third iteration, the Peebles Print Prize was established by Queenscliff Gallery with Graeme Peebles, a Queenscliff local and exhibiting artist with the...
Fiona Foley is an artist from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation, whose acclaimed arts practice has been widely exhibited across Australia and internationally...
In space, they say, no-one can hear you scream – which is just as well because a lot of us feel like doing just that...
Hall began her artistic life in oil painting, training first at the Queensland College of Art. At this early stage of her practice, her interest...
The box of paints in question was found by Ryan while moving out of the print studio at Barebones Gallery in Bangalow. As such, it...
You wouldn’t believe it, after arriving at Dunedin International Airport at 1:30am on a drizzling dark March morning in 2018, what strikes me immediately about...
As a girl, I was fascinated by my mother’s hands. I would trace their veins and tendons with my fingertips, following them like roads on...
Joe: For our AP piece let’s try an email exchange. It has to be about our process. I think failure has been instrumental in shaping...
Close is a central artist to any telling of art made in the last 50 years. Although singular and dedicated for the most part to...
Foley’s most recent body of work responds to the state of hyper-saturation which characterises our informational and affective lives in the present. Many of these...
The visceral artworks of Louise Zhang are animated by a dynamic tension between desire and repulsion. Through lurid, eye-catching paintings, blobby, bodily sculptures, and, more...
In the early days of the pandemic, Helen Eager works in a routine seemingly unaltered by a disruption that is tearing at the fabric of...
Since 1991, the annual Samstag Scholarship has awarded 146 Australian artists the opportunity to study overseas. It provides the space for artists to explore new...
When looking at Swedish artist Micke Lindebergh’s recent paintings, it is difficult not to feel a sense of joy. Relying on a carefully chosen palette...
