Curated by Gippsland Art Gallery director Simon Gregg, Turner & Australia navigates the enduring influence of J.M.W. Turner on Australian landscape painting, commencing with Turner’s...
In the final weeks of her PhD thesis deadline, Adriana is generous with her time and her words. She speaks fluently about her interdisciplinary practice,...
A kite consists of wings, tethers, and anchors. The wings glide against the air when in flight and the tethers connect the span of those...
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is perhaps best known for her intimate self-portraits exploring pain, love, and loss, replete with potent symbolism and social commentary. She gained...
O’Doherty captures the zeitgeist in a distilled format and direct way that is uniquely his own. Understated in scale, his prints, paintings and drawings are...
A lifetime of working with clay provides you with an ease of association and a comfortable familiarity that greatly helps with confidence at the beginning...
The story of humanity or modern humans (homo sapiens) is explained by various creation myths across different religions and cultures. Many of these myths have...
Laurens of the restless soul, that constantly dragged him up from dinner tables with thoughts, plans, and new ideas. Laurens with the restless energy that...
Led by curator Kelli Cole, Emily Kam Kngwarray at the Tate is a continuation of the retrospective Emily Kam Kngwarray: Alhalkere—Paintings from Utopia curated by...
I approached the exhibition Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World with caution, thinking it might be a problematic and questionable foray into collaborative exchange....
Based in the peri-urban region of Wattle Glen, in Victoria, her practice is informed by the Greek heritage of her immigrant family and their working-class...
Kovács was born in Sydney, a first generation Australian from immigrant parents fleeing war-torn Hungary. Her upbringing was very much as part of the Hungarian...
Paul McGillick has brought together much fascinating, and often relatively unfamiliar material in what is effectively the first study of the nude in Australian art....
On a workbench sits a scale model of the exhibition space for an upcoming show at PALAS, Sydney. Rothschild looks into the model, then looks...
It is one of the peculiarities of the art of painting that all the strength and suppleness of movement the painter’s body can bring to...
Adam Douglas Hill (AKA Blak Douglas) is an attention-seeking artist. Seemingly on the fringes of the art world but also something of a celebrity whose...
I met with Gary Deirmendjian in his studio, or one aspect of it at least, at a café in Sydney’s Kings Cross. He is self-described...
With the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney recently announcing the reintroduction of admission fees from February 2025, there has been a renewed...
The colonial spasm that started in the seventeenth century, that saw the world carved up to fuel capitalism and created a socio-political landscape that led...
On his visit to Australia in 1968 the American art critic Clement Greenberg encouraged young artists to “enjoy their diversity”—advice Jock Clutterbuck appreciated. As a...
Bathurst has inspired the exhibition yet it’s not an exhibition about Bathurst. My mum grew up there. My grandparents and uncle had a farm there,...
The typical arc of a mid-career retrospective exhibition is that of an artist arriving at a fully formed artistic style. But this major exhibition is...
It’s not as though the national attitude toward acts of terrorism was more permissive in the past. Thank you very much, 2006, in which footage...
When viewing the website of glass artist Nick Mount, the visitor will find the usual content headings, with the exception of “About us” which offers...
What sets us apart from other creatures is our ability to communicate using a series of vocal symbols. As the distinguish British archaeologist Colin Renfrew...
