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...
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...
