In a sense, many hands have participated in the makings of Leong’s ‘Intimate Debris’ series, on view now at Artereal Gallery, Sydney. Looking into his...
The catalogue essay for this exhibition opens with the claim that drawing – and, especially, ‘observational’ drawing – emerges from a practice of sustained attention....
The text-based work which operates as a manifesto for Mombassa’s current show declares that ‘Simplisticism is a new global art movement, religion, and political party....
Ollis creates – rather than replicates – visions of the working spaces of a number of significant Australian and European artists in these new works....
But there was distraction. As I went from dramatic image to exhilarating abstract whirls of colour, my eye kept going to two small paintings hanging...
HOTA Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, ‘Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise,’ and its first public opening, take place this week in Surfers Paradise. Two significant public art...
It’s a studio visit like no other. I pull over on a dirt road just outside Westbury in Northern Tasmania and do a U-turn before...
In May this year we lost a precious thing. We did not know that we would mourn it, and many of us did not know...
In his new exhibition at Olsen Gallery in May, Stephen Bird uses both paint and clay to explore the imaginary voyages of the mind; how...
The scholar Thomas Jessen Adams, in an article for Overland, draws an apt line of connection between Cameron Hayes’s paintings and the open-ended dystopias of Breughel. Take...
In a thoughtful, peripatetic catalogue essay for Belle Bassin’s ‘A Form Arriving,’ Jasmine Proust reflects on the feminism adhering to art by women, even when...
Although now based in Melbourne, I spent my childhood on the Central Pacific Ocean island Banaba, part of the nation of Kiribati. In between bouts...
While vessels hold, portals gesture ceaselessly to elsewhere. When we look at any ceramic vessels, we look at an outside, an exoskeleton. Morgan’s glazed exoskeletons...
There is some irony in the term ‘endangered artefacts’ given that Victoria Reichelt’s work appears to be a painted photographic facsimile. The style itself is...
‘Rituals of the herd’ marks Charmaine Pike’s first Sydney exhibition since 2017. Moving to the next body of work after a successful exhibition, the artist...
John Scurry’s new works in oil and watercolour are most obviously ‘about’ landscape: a life lived within it, the artist’s attachments to it, and the...
Suspended in plume-like formations, hundreds of icicle-shaped glass forms are looming. Was that a sound? They’re alive in the otherwise silent space, swaying slightly in...
Willemina Villari’s work responds to landscape — that is, both the genre of painting and the artist’s own surrounds, soaked with feeling and memory as...
The Close World (2020) was built from conversations with GPT-3, and for the project, you fed the model with foundational texts on the philosophy of language. Which...
Ang’s new photobook will be released as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria....
The show’s Australian curators have been meticulous in thinking through the relationship of the British designer to Australian domestic audiences, both in the mid-twentieth century...
The works in this survey show span the last three decades of the twentieth century; they function as an historical record of Johnson’s involvement in...
What has influenced your approach to art? It is hard to say, you are what you are and other things affirm what you are. Because...
Representations of women in visual art have historically defined female experience through difference, weakness, passivity, sexual availability, domesticity and, perhaps most unintelligent, an object to...
Many of Turner’s works can be understood as documents weaving the artist’s personal history into broader socio-cultural narratives from twentieth-century Australia. The print of Turner’s...
