“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...
With the sad news of Gordon Shepherdson's passing on 18 July 2019, we look back to Issue 42 when Louise Martin-Chew wrote about the artist's...
Katherine Hattam’s Melbourne house and studio sing with her paintings, in clear, bright sharply defined colours.
“I suppose it all started when my mother committed suicide, when I was five.” John speaks deeply, slowly, every word heavy with the weight of a...
Ryan Presley’s work is full of symbolism, but I also like to think of it as testing the line between iconography and insignia, directing viewers...
“A lot of humans forget we are organic entities, the same as every other creature on the planet, and we’ve only been here for a short...
A crisp artificial sheen settles on the contours of Angelica Mesiti’s face as she gazes at her laptop screen in a windowless room strewn with...
By his own account, Weber grew up “in the midst of the plains of Minnesota, in a small town of about 30,000 people . ....
Melbourne artist Dean Bowen knows exactly when and why he decided to become a sculptor as well as a printmaker and painter. It was 1993,...
The title Plant Your Feet comes from a poem, Bloom, by poet, Gunai woman, Kirli Saunders: Plant your feet like roots next to mine. Bloom...
Your current exhibition with PICA, Las Hormigas/The Ants, includes work which audiences may have seen presented in different forms in a variety of contexts –...
In 2015, Park made Garden, a site-specific mixed-media installation which fused an imagined archaeological site with a consideration of the histories embedded in material culture....
All elections bring forth a tumultuous change in the Australian society, as the old order is thrown out like confetti from a departing ship of...
In 2017, Angus and his wife, artist Liz Linden, decided to leave New York and move to California. “It was a period of consolidation, and...
Can you tell us a little about your work towards the Bluethumb Art Prize-winning photograph, Midas’ Daughter II? It’s funny, but I guess like many artworks,...
In his first-floor studio on the fringe of a large industrial estate on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi is crouched down in the middle...
There was a day in the fourth grade that the first Apple II series computer arrived at our school. With hindsight, the functions were comical...
