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...
All too few white Australians are aware of the cornucopia of cultural complexities that flourish in the Top End of their country. Despite the best...
As for so many, making art is a positive childhood memory for Taribelang and Gooreng Gooreng artist Dylan Sarra. Sarra was born in Bundaberg, central...
Brent Harris’ studio is adjacent to Gertrude Glasshouse, the experimental satellite venue of Gertrude Contemporary. Apart from chance meetings at Tolarno Galleries openings, we haven’t...
The western suburbs of Melbourne in the late 1980s. A single mum gathers her children in the morning of what will prove to be a...
Nicola Moss’ home-studio sits at the top of an alarmingly steep, twisting driveway overlooking a peaceful, hidden valley in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Just minutes...
The first time I saw Jo Chew’s paintings, I immediately begged a mutual friend to introduce us. It was at the 2010 Tasmanian College of...
First impressions are formed within seconds of meeting someone. You judge them—and just as quickly, they judge you. These impressions are determined by mannerisms, facial...
In an autumn downpour I arrive at the Annandale studio of Susie Choi. The rain seems to rattle the bones of the old warehouse space,...
This description makes Zac Langdon-Pole’s practice sound playful, based in small acts of curious deployment of things, ideas, and words—the tangible and intangible, perceptible and...
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...
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...
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...
Harrie Fasher’s bronze and steel equine forms evoke the human vulnerabilities of life, death, struggle and war.
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...
Emma Walker’s paintings have the rare quality of stirring feelings of vague recollection within the subliminal mind.
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...
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....
Paul Selwood is one of Australia’s foremost sculptors, creating fluid, complex works, often from a single sheet of steel.
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,...
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...
Chris Dyson has spent the better part of fifty years producing a prolific body of work, including drawings, paintings, and sculptures. However, there is scant...
For Sydney-based, Auckland-born artist Michael McHugh his colourful paintings are informed by the reordering of plant form DNA; he undertakes extensive research in the field...
In his small studio located in a garage on the Illawarra escarpment, Christopher Zanko has temporarily set aside his wood-cut tools and brushes. His exhibition...
