Ang’s new photobook will be released as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria....
The works in this survey show span the last three decades of the twentieth century; they function as an historical record of Johnson’s involvement in...
What has influenced your approach to art? It is hard to say, you are what you are and other things affirm what you are. Because...
Representations of women in visual art have historically defined female experience through difference, weakness, passivity, sexual availability, domesticity and, perhaps most unintelligent, an object to...
Many of Turner’s works can be understood as documents weaving the artist’s personal history into broader socio-cultural narratives from twentieth-century Australia. The print of Turner’s...
The designation of textiles and other ‘craft’ as women’s work is, by now, well-worn. Though the works that Florence presents, here, are paintings, they emerge...
Watson’s mirror (a history of energies), 2021, is unsettling in its perfection, its unlikely and delicate resolution of opposing categories. The sculpture brings the ‘natural’ and the...
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist...
I raise Sherman and Kruger here because in many respects Ces McCully is their direct descendant. Sherman, who utilised photographic self-portraiture, to question self-identity is...
Your first public appearance as Director of the MCA was to launch an exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 1999. You spoke about making...
For ‘Tall Tale,’ at STATION Gallery, McGregor traces new conceptual horizons outwards from his established drawing practice, without losing sight of his sustained interests in...
Certainly, a sense of wonder permeates many of these works. Pliable oils twist across the canvas, casting a glow of enchantment over the landscapes with...
The title of Hirst’s new work, Darling Darling, is double-edged. We might call somebody ‘darling’ affectionately, of course – but repeat the phrase and the tone shifts...
With Melville’s traditions as background, the eye roams over the delicate, fine lines and blizzard-like dots of Timothy Cook’s canvas’ surface.
Asking where expressionist painting began is like asking who invented drawing. Historically, the Western expressionist artist is individualistic, the work not readily situated in specific...
Eleanor Louise Butt talks about the ways in which her works ‘speak’ to each other, conversing and sharing expressions across multiple planes until a melody...
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
As we enter lockdown again on the Northern Beaches, Alana Wilson’s work inspires us to look closer at nature and our immediate surroundings.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have, for twenty years, ambushed global notions of normality...
A Wiradjuri woman living in regional New South Wales, Karla Dickens is known for her often provocative reflections on Australian culture, past and present.
Amos Gebhardt’s immersive multi-channel video works offer affective moments of exchange between viewer and artwork.
The exhibition ‘Destiny’ surveys an impactful body of work by Australian artist and activist Destiny Deacon.
Simon Finn’s practice has always oscillated between zones of sheer beauty and utter entropy.
