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...
The American Southwest, as it exists within the white settler-colonist imagination, is loaded with complex and often contradictory narratives. Its low population density, heat, presumed...
Seeing and Being Seen, William Yang’s latest project, has had a long gestation. It was first proposed by former Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of...
Born in Tasmania to a Vietnamese father and an Australian mother, Mai Nguyen-Long grew up in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; as an adult,...
How do you picture your childhood? A lot of freedom. I was allowed to do what I wanted most of the time. Plenty of painting...
Pinned to Georgia Spain’s studio wall is a cluster of postcards, photographs and magazine clippings. There are images of dancers, a game of tug of...
There are ‘isms’, movements and ‘schools-of’ in the artistic vocabulary that, over time and with compelling evidence, end up sticking like glue...
Plastered across the press release for this survey show is a quote: “Every artist has their language – any half-decent artist has their particular handwriting,...
Professionally, the previous two COVID-19-addled years have been kind to Daniel Boyd. He is on the cusp of having his first solo survey show in...
Zofrea understood quite early in his development that music could nourish his creativity. He is as inspired by composers and performers as he is by...
