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...
Since she started making art, Manning’s subjects have included colonisation, sexual abuse, the intergenerational impact of the Vietnam War around the world, feminism and personal...
Having been known primarily as a photographer for most of his practicing life, Harold David has turned more and more to painting since 2017. Even...
In Jennifer Keeler-Milne’s Autumn Leaf IV, 2020-21, a single lace-like leaf casts a shadow down the blank field of picture space through which it falls. Keeler-Milne’s ‘Autumn...
Peter Godwin takes heart from Picasso’s famous line about Cézanne’s anxiety. It seems to justify his own late-blooming career as an artist who only began...
Next to his home in Goanna Ridge, Gulong, is Chester Nealie’s kiln. A few hours’ drive from Bathurst, where his works are currently shown, Nealie...
The oils streaked across the canvases in Rebecca Rath’s ‘Strange and capricious land’ series are robust; resistant. They hold their shape, appearing just like what...
Leyla Stevens makes moving images of ghosts. Working in both speculative and documentary modes of filmmaking, she finds and tells alternative histories, tracing the spectres...
When Ann Thomson spoke to Bridget Macleod in Artist Profile Issue 35 (2016), she explained that ‘I put my mind into neutral when I paint,...
Snell cites Rainer Maria Rilke on the utility of difficult feeling in artmaking: ‘don’t take my devils away, because my angels might flee too.’ One...
Throughout his nearly two-decade career as a painter, Domig has remained committed to the figure. His paintings are explorations, extrapolations, and instantiations of the body,...
Meat Mirror, which moves to the Gold Coast this month after premiering at the Brisbane Art and Design Festival, emerges from a set of social conditions...
Bindu (white), 1995-2005, stands at one end of the space at Utopia. ‘Stands’ is an important descriptor here, rather than just a functional verb: these...
In a catalogue essay for Courtenay’s upcoming exhibition at ARO Gallery, I See You, Tracey Clement describes the artist’s world-building work as ‘post-apocalyptic.’ There is...
Just off-centre in Jo Darvall’s Mooro Katta No. 4, 2020, is a stroke of warm, rambunctious yellow paint; it forms the shape of an arrow, pointed left....
When the great Canadian-born painter Philip Guston’s daughter Musa Mayer wrote a compelling biography Night Studio (1988) about the problems of having a never-around workaholic...
It’s half past eight in the morning. I’m on a ferry from somewhere to elsewhere. You can be halfway between two points, like half past...
After nearly three decades of traversing, contemplating and capturing desert landscapes throughout Australia and across the world, Jo Bertini found a true connection to the...
With a grassroots structure and ethos that has endured over eleven years, NotFair prioritises the experience of exhibiting artists. At the centre of this model...
In Whiskey’s new show, ‘Sistas,’ we’re in good company: Dolly Parton, Cher, Tina Turner, Catwoman, and David Hasselhoff are with us. The works across this show,...
