Growing up the youngest of three sisters in the northern parts of suburban Sydney, Clara Adolphs was largely left to her own devices. With fertile...
Irene Barberis’ work ranges from the monumental The Tapestry of Light, 2006-2019, which combines nanotechnology with Christian apocalyptic imagery, to a variety of minimalist chromatic...
Adam Douglas Hill, better known by his longstanding moniker Blak Douglas, is an Indigenous artist with strong connections to Western Sydney and the inner Sydney...
The past several years have seen numerous protests and acts of vandalism directed against public monuments deemed to be offensive, particularly during the Black Lives...
Landscape has been a dominant force in Australian art since colonial times, a place for myth and legend to play out, the supreme example being...
This year, fourteen artists from Australia presented nineteen works, advised by Perth based artist couple Peteris and Jillian Ciemitis, representing a diverse range of artistic...
The title of Judy Watson’s forty-year survey at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is from a poem written by her son Otis Carmichael in Waanyi...
The internationally renowned artist George Gittoes has no qualms in catapulting himself into dangerous, hyperreal war zones. He has been doing this for the last...
Guillaume Dillée works are a part of an expanding movement of local and international artists that have devoted their practice to detailing the devasting effects...
In Australia there is an ongoing tradition of landscape painting that goes back for more than two centuries. There is also another tradition in Australian...
This exhibition, Paris: Impressions of Life 1880 – 1925, examines aspects of Parisian life drawn from the extensive but relatively little-known collection of the Musée...
Harrie Fasher’s bronze and steel equine forms evoke the human vulnerabilities of life, death, struggle and war.
History and identity are the main themes of this BoS, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ and Indigenous issues as well as climate change, colonisation, the...
I meet with Christopher Bassi in his studio on infamous Boundary Street (the former margin of Magandjin / Brisbane’s once segregated city limits). It is...
Biennials, or biennales, are no mean feat—for curators, artists, host institutions, and audiences. The challenge lies in the delicate dance of marrying a cohesive curatorial...
I knew Ian North for more than forty years. I knew him before I met him. In the early 1980s, as Australian correspondent for the...
Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind.
Nespokojstvo (foreboding uneasiness) is the Serbian word Jelena Telecki offers for the mood underlying the nine works in Mothers, Fathers. It is her debut solo...
To encounter Meagan Streader’s work is to experience the phenomenon of light, not just as a series of wavelengths that bounce off surfaces to reveal...
David Hayes will tell you himself that he is just a middle-aged white guy painting the human condition. That’s certainly not a throwaway line. He...
Whisson was born in Lilydale, Victoria in 1927 and died in 2022 in Sydney. Finding formal training uninspiring he enrolled in an experimental school at...
Jordan Wolfson first came to the attention of the hermetically sealed New York art world with his work Real Violence, which was shown as part...
In Issue 42, Bridget Macleod spoke to Franck Gohier as he prepared for his exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory....
Mein began creating “textile pictures” in 1977, applying an almost forensic level of detail to her exploration of the natural world. She eschewed the “quintessential”...
It is surprising to think this is the first full length documentary feature on the iconoclastic Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman, and Gurang Gurang artist Richard Bell,...
