This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia...
Louella Hayes interviewed Lincoln Austin for issue 43 of Artist Profile in 2018. Lincoln Austin’s artworks invite their audience to experience a vivid world of optical confusion....
The word “freedom” is at the centre of humanity – to be human is to be free, to relate to others, spaces, and places without...
Time is central to the art of Lyndal Jones. Working with durational practice, her installations include video, performance, theatre, dance, photography, and sound. Encounters with...
Tricky Walsh appears on my laptop screen, their voice slightly distorted as we converse over distance through a shaky network from one regional part of...
Renee So’s faces don’t often have all their features. Some have noses, but her early busts and knitted paintings often have mouths grown over by...
Trevor Vickers has been working in abstraction for more than five decades, importing constructed visualisations onto canvas, offering ways of how the world can be...
HOSSEI doesn’t always want to know what his work is about, “For me, it’s more about a feeling, and I want you to feel something...
“I have lived on or in proximity to Ngunnawal country most of my life, but I know that I will never have the detailed knowledge...
Fiona Somerville was born in Adelaide, where nineteenth century European settlers built a stately colonial city on the fertile coastal plain, surrounding it with a...
Congratulations on winning the Packing Room Prize in the Hadley’s Art Prize. Can you tell me more about your work and the significance of its...
1970, the year Adam Hill was born, was a turbulent time of great change. It was time of the beginning of the Papunya Tula dot-...
One of the most defining features of Emma Coulter’s work is her choice of colours, with the artist preferring to work with a limited palette...
Matthew Cheyne has structured his life around family and home, both tethered to an art practice that is integral to who he is. Sustainability is...
Jørn Utzon was guided by the ideology that architecture is not an external form, but a frame enclosing a collection of ritualised events. For Mika...
The raw matter of Gabrielle Courtenay’s work often appears to her like a dream-like force. Branches, root forms, discarded household objects—these drop down or are...
“I think an experience is not something that just happens to us, it’s something we choose to do,” Olafur Eliasson opined. The Icelandic–Danish artist was...
This playful approach is designed to keep a viewer interested, and he’s eager to throw them off the scent of how a work was made....
Just as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed –...
The glass scene in Australia is rumbling, swelling. A jolt of new energy pulses through its crystalline veins as many contemporary artists are starting to...
Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between...
You have a substantial history working in both film and contemporary art. How do you find traversing the two fields? Video art and film pose...
The sociopolitical context Laycock was working in, from the post–World War II period onwards, witnessed Australia’s shifting alliance from England to the US. Laycock was...
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent border control measures have abruptly severed Tasmania’s connection to the mainland, temporarily suspending that sense of not-so-far-awayness. With our parks...
As we walk into the up-cycled meatworks where Richard Goodwin lives, the first impression is of a cabinet of curiosities splayed horizontal. On one table...
