Troy Emery’s practice is imbued with tactility that points to the role of animals and their forced complicity within contemporary life. Situating the works within...
Since she started making art, Manning’s subjects have included colonisation, sexual abuse, the intergenerational impact of the Vietnam War around the world, feminism and personal...
Having been known primarily as a photographer for most of his practicing life, Harold David has turned more and more to painting since 2017. Even...
In Jennifer Keeler-Milne’s Autumn Leaf IV, 2020-21, a single lace-like leaf casts a shadow down the blank field of picture space through which it falls. Keeler-Milne’s ‘Autumn...
Peter Godwin takes heart from Picasso’s famous line about Cézanne’s anxiety. It seems to justify his own late-blooming career as an artist who only began...
The oils streaked across the canvases in Rebecca Rath’s ‘Strange and capricious land’ series are robust; resistant. They hold their shape, appearing just like what...
When Ann Thomson spoke to Bridget Macleod in Artist Profile Issue 35 (2016), she explained that ‘I put my mind into neutral when I paint,...
Throughout his nearly two-decade career as a painter, Domig has remained committed to the figure. His paintings are explorations, extrapolations, and instantiations of the body,...
Bindu (white), 1995-2005, stands at one end of the space at Utopia. ‘Stands’ is an important descriptor here, rather than just a functional verb: these...
Just off-centre in Jo Darvall’s Mooro Katta No. 4, 2020, is a stroke of warm, rambunctious yellow paint; it forms the shape of an arrow, pointed left....
It’s half past eight in the morning. I’m on a ferry from somewhere to elsewhere. You can be halfway between two points, like half past...
In Whiskey’s new show, ‘Sistas,’ we’re in good company: Dolly Parton, Cher, Tina Turner, Catwoman, and David Hasselhoff are with us. The works across this show,...
In a sense, many hands have participated in the makings of Leong’s ‘Intimate Debris’ series, on view now at Artereal Gallery, Sydney. Looking into his...
Ollis creates – rather than replicates – visions of the working spaces of a number of significant Australian and European artists in these new works....
But there was distraction. As I went from dramatic image to exhilarating abstract whirls of colour, my eye kept going to two small paintings hanging...
It’s a studio visit like no other. I pull over on a dirt road just outside Westbury in Northern Tasmania and do a U-turn before...
In his new exhibition at Olsen Gallery in May, Stephen Bird uses both paint and clay to explore the imaginary voyages of the mind; how...
The scholar Thomas Jessen Adams, in an article for Overland, draws an apt line of connection between Cameron Hayes’s paintings and the open-ended dystopias of Breughel. Take...
In a thoughtful, peripatetic catalogue essay for Belle Bassin’s ‘A Form Arriving,’ Jasmine Proust reflects on the feminism adhering to art by women, even when...
Although now based in Melbourne, I spent my childhood on the Central Pacific Ocean island Banaba, part of the nation of Kiribati. In between bouts...
There is some irony in the term ‘endangered artefacts’ given that Victoria Reichelt’s work appears to be a painted photographic facsimile. The style itself is...
‘Rituals of the herd’ marks Charmaine Pike’s first Sydney exhibition since 2017. Moving to the next body of work after a successful exhibition, the artist...
John Scurry’s new works in oil and watercolour are most obviously ‘about’ landscape: a life lived within it, the artist’s attachments to it, and the...
Suspended in plume-like formations, hundreds of icicle-shaped glass forms are looming. Was that a sound? They’re alive in the otherwise silent space, swaying slightly in...
The Close World (2020) was built from conversations with GPT-3, and for the project, you fed the model with foundational texts on the philosophy of language. Which...
