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,...
As many artists of his generation experienced, if as a student you showed the slightest creative inclination but also demonstrated academic ability you were funnelled...
Paul Selwood is one of Australia’s foremost sculptors, creating fluid, complex works, often from a single sheet of steel.
Luke Sciberras’s art is the product of a quarter-century of experiencing the landscape with all his senses. Most recognised for his expressive paintings of Australian...
A Great-Grandchild caressing the hands of her Great-Grandmother, reveals a life journey of profound strength and resistance to the cruelty and burden of colonial history,...
Embraced in the Loving Arms of an Algorithm – v1.1 (ELAAA v1.1), is a stark, but intellectually rich and timely exhibition that claims to be...
Accompanied by artist and Orange’s director Brad Hammond, and photographer Craig Potton, he helicoptered onto the mountain ranges. It was his second trip with Potton...
“Hong Kong is back!” exclaimed collector and philanthropist Vivienne Sharpe at Art Basel Hong Kong’s (ABHK) First Choice VIP Preview. As a seasoned international art...
Mysteries come in many forms and don’t always issue from the darkness. The light-filled pictorial universe that Cypriot-born, London-educated Andrew Christofides has prospected since the...
When I first saw Janaki Peart’s paintings, I felt a rare excitement. I couldn’t recall seeing work by a young painter that felt so certain...
Fairy Tales, curated by Amanda Slack-Smith at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), is a remarkable exhibition, featuring over a hundred works assembled from genres...
Hovering, nine metres above me on wiry legs of steely elegance Maman, 1999, Louise Bourgeois’ celebrated spider sculpture, a metaphor for her mother, greets me...
Over coffee and lamingtons (everyday suburban fare appropriate to the source material of much of her work) we discuss, in no particular order, flies, trompe...
Looking back over my artistic practice, I can clearly see the signposts leading to what I’m making in the studio today. In recent years, I...
Without fanfare, a small group of works by an important American artist of the twentieth century were given a rare showing in Sydney last month....
“Smashing the frame,” “moving past the border,” and “breaking out of our structures” are some of the expressions Kellie O’Dempsey uses to describe her need...
The inscription could not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. An editioned...
