Khaled Sabsabi / To hold the multiple lives of truth As an artist with a career spanning over four decades, Khaled Sabsabi has, by faith...
Brincat tells me that painting came first and performance later. She initially trained in painting at Sydney College of the Arts and remembers the painting...
It’s surreal. A little over two weeks ago I was invited to a lunch celebrating the announcement of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the...
Upon entering Kirtika Kain’s studio, I am immediately struck by the force with which her canvases command my attention. The only way I can describe...
In mid-February, Tony Burke, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Arts, attended a citizenship blitz he asked his department to arrange, for migrants...
To seek a moment of quietude amongst the storm of words we need only to return ourselves to Khaled’s work, any one of his works....
Pavilion Lost Khaled Sabsabi chosen and cancelled in one week for the Australian Pavilion in Venice, 2026! How is this possible in Australia in 2025?...
In full support of Khaled Sabsabi’s work Khaled Sabsabi’s artistic research stands as a powerful exploration of his Lebanese heritage and the realities of...
On an unseasonably warm afternoon, Khaled Sabsabi unveils a new mystical world housed in a humble, cramped, tin shed doubling up as his studio at...
Sara Maher was the first artist I met in Tasmania. I encountered Maher gently arranging tiny drawings and prints in a tree for the 2004...
Collerson’s studio—a former SES [State Emergency Service] hall—is long and mostly windowless, spacious yet stacked with canvases. As we sit, I ask about his day...
How can large woven tapestries, meters high and wide, come to be lost? Weaving is a primal medium, said to have been the first building...
“She is after all not a nature photographer but the photographer of a predicament . . .” Douglas Kahn, Photofile, 1995 I am listening to...
Brian Robinson is a multi-skilled contemporary artist whose practice combines his passion for experimentation crossing boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Norton’s 20-year survey is comprehensive and greatly defined by the artist’s upbringing – born in the 1950s and growing up during the political and social...
Being famous can be a fleeting thing. Time moves on. Values change. What once held a certain status, like being crowned Miss Australia, loses its...
The exhibition is an introspective examination of Bacon’s approach to the human condition. It provides an intimate view of those closest to the artist and...
Ann Thomson celebrated her ninetieth birthday in October 2023. Born in Queensland in 1933, the daughter of a prominent Brisbane bookseller, she was genteelly brought...
Dark and alive with momentum and verve, there is something extraordinarily immediate in Godwin’s play across the picture plane. Channelling the eighteenth century master of...
Introducing this revised 2024 edition of The Landscapes of Reg Mombassa, Reg explains with a characteristically wry twist, that Hypersonic Realism is a new art...
Daaaaaalí! is directed by the electronic musician and DJ turned director, Quentin Dupieux, who established a deserved cult following with his 2010 film, Rubber. For...
In 2022, dual survey shows by Khaled Sabsabi were presented, with Campbelltown Arts Centre hosting Khaled Sabsabi: A Hope and the Art Gallery of NSW,...
Technically adventurous and not anchored in a particular narrow “signature style,” Hanning emerges from this exhibition that covers forty years of his work as primarily...
In late 2024, Arthouse Gallery celebrates thirty years at its McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay, address but the concept for Arthouse—which originally held the name Arthouse:...
Namedropping does not mean anything if you do not recognise the reference. It means nothing. Yes, of course, you could look it up if you...
