Bill Henson is preparing for an upcoming show. He says that “new pictures grow out of old pictures. With these recently completed works there has...
During my last years of art school, at a critical point in my studies, on the verge of establishing my practice, a respected lecturer and...
In what he has previously described as a “cutting of the umbilical cord,” the young Australian painter John Olsen travelled to Europe in 1956, setting...
Let’s start from the beginning. When did you realise that being an artist was the career for you? I was always drawing as a child,...
Likenesses are easy to draw between Carmichael and Ropeyarn: both are flourishing in their early-to-mid careers as artmakers, exhibiting in significant group shows across public...
A feline figure looks us almost in the eye in Beetle Spotting, 2018. Offering this slant gaze at once curious and evasive, the cat’s face...
Penelope Seidler has a powerful public presence. Hers is what millennials would define as a “big life.” Involved and curious, she makes her way from...
There was so much about Peter Powditch that made him the quintessential male Australian artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in...
Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis....
Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
You draw from a wide range of imagery and ideas. What are the major sources of inspiration for your works? The process for gathering content...
Isaac Julien confessed to Laura Barnett in a Guardian article in 2013 that he was a frustrated painter. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that his film and...
It’s week three of another lockdown and for once, I am looking forward to my next Zoom of the day – my interview with Noonuccal...
I first met Lawrence in 1980, when I was a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design. I had of course seen his...
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you...
I found out about Burford’s practice through a mutual friend and former art dealer – the advisor Paul Judelson – at dinner a while back. Over...
Justine Varga’s rigorous and ruminative photographic practice transgresses conventional notions of photography.
Reuben Paterson was fresh out of art school when he left Auckland for Aviz, France, in 1997, to participate in the esteemed Moët & Chandon...
What informs your work? I’ve been painting for a long time now. I finished art school in my mid-twenties and more or less lived on...
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably...
Robert’s objects are still, but somehow immediate. They’re still, but they are alive.
In 2011, George Gittoes and I were invited to speak at the World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression at Oslo about the Yellow House...
Fiona Foley is an artist from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation, whose acclaimed arts practice has been widely exhibited across Australia and internationally...
You wouldn’t believe it, after arriving at Dunedin International Airport at 1:30am on a drizzling dark March morning in 2018, what strikes me immediately about...
