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...
From Paleolithic Venus figurines, whose creation dates from 26,000 to 21,000 years ago, to the Marian relics of contemporary Catholicism, childhood toys, and the kitsch...
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine...
You couldn’t practise full-time as an artist until you were 53. Would it have changed your practice to have more time to paint earlier? Shirley...
In one of Peter Poulet’s recent untitled paintings, something which could be a star sits in a space which could be a window to the night sky. These things...
Fiona Lowry’s artworks are contemporary renderings of conventional portraiture and landscape painting. Although she cites locations such as Belanglo State Forest and loosely references actual...
Humans have devised ways of creating sculptural forms out of almost any known or available materials at hand. Stone, metal, timber, glass and plastics. Hair...
In Fire Sutra II, 2021, two waves of light stream diagonally across the canvas. Modulations between light and dark on the whole, in this work, take on...
Having recently graduated from the National Art School, majoring in ceramics, Parker is searching for her own frames of beauty. As a young artist of...
In Escarpment Study 1, 2021, cold blue light permeates the eucalypts. We are left to speculate as to whether this is shade or simply the cool light...
Curated by Pippa Mott, the show brings a distinctly contemporary context to bear on Debord’s psychogeography. Where Debord was concerned, primarily, with the urban environment...
In The Vigil (Nocturne), 2021, a set of fingertips emerge from a lace cuff, reaching across the painting’s frame to shine the light of a candle onto...
Surfers Paradise: an amalgam of Florida, Las Vegas and Disneyland, it’s Australia’s playground for everybody, a sunny retirement destination for the well-heeled from southern states,...
Badger Bates is a Barkantji Elder, a political activist and contemporary artist. Working primarily in printmaking, wood and stone carving, Bates’ practice is intrinsically linked...
In 2007, Gillian Sanbrook bought Bibbaringa, a 950-hectare property located in Wymah Valley on the south west slopes of New South Wales. At the time,...
In response to Amber Wallis’s Women, shown at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2020, Amanda Maxwell wrote: ‘I’ve never seen a ghost And won’t But if I was to...
Troy Emery’s practice is imbued with tactility that points to the role of animals and their forced complicity within contemporary life. Situating the works within...
