Raphaella Rosella sees things as they are, instinctively, without embellishment. She’s a gifted visual storyteller, never allowing her images to stray into patronising or exploitative...
Maori artist Star Gossage paints dreamlike figures in shifting landscapes that explore journeys of loss and endurance.
The paintings of Charmaine Pike allude to the remote landscape, its geographical features and natural formations, embedded or rather personified with human emotion.
During a typical week Tom Carment might journey around the city of Sydney to make watercolours, visit a friend to paint their portrait, or draw...
Kerrie Hughes came to painting after a brilliant career in fashion design. This has had a profound influence on Hughes’ art practice, and the way...
For an artist who has long been in dialogue with her dual transient identities, Lindy Lee is pushing past boundaries and forging her own mark as...
For Coen Young, painting is an encounter made real by the methods and process of silver nitrate.
In a career spanning 40 years, Andrew Christofides has forged a distinctive painting practice, recognisable for its sobriety and intellectual curiosity.
Dean Home is facing a moment of crisis. This is not a bad thing, he is quick to add. But a crisis it is.
Small, refined and focused, this year's Woollahra Small Sculpture returns to challenge Australian artists to concentrate their efforts on the micro.
It has taken some time for the Australian art world to get its own head around the genetically challenging and often startling creatures and concepts...
As an artist, what remains consistent is McMonagle's embrace of the challenge, and it is this that sets her up to be as tenacious and...
Open until 10 September, head to Orange to see a major survey of over 140 contemporary Australasian painters and their paintings.
Glenn Barkley interviews Frank Nowlan about his early years as an artist, his practice now pushing the artistic mode to examine what this life is...
John Firth-Smith is an abstract painter of expansive meditations in space, shapes reminiscent of boats and shorelines and objects on and around the littoral zone...
Joe Frost’s paintings are the product of an encounter between the artist and the outside world arrived at through experimentation with paint.
Anna Platten’s impetus to tell engaging stories led her to early Western high narrative painting traditions, partly for their craftsmanship where she says “you can see the...
Artist Profile explores something which taps into a deep Buzacott vein: the mystery that is art making.
Tom Arthur is an artist completely at play. From making “things” as a small boy he has successfully turned it into a lifelong passion.
David Horton’s processes are sometimes rapid and sometimes contemplative, depending on his emotional urge at the time.
David Frank is a storyteller. His life in the outback, as a policer officer, and as a traditional healer – a Ngangkari – has fuelled...
When talking about her work, Cummings is hesitant to speak in absolutes. She prefers to describe art in terms of its possibilities and the wonderment...
