George Gittoes has been travelling the world for over forty years, visiting those regions that appear in brief, blood-spattered segments on the nightly news.
In Issue 39, John von Sturmer discusses how Pedro Wonaeamirri engages with ancient Tiwi teachings.
Josh Foley’s visceral paintings create visually complex worlds that question the materiality behind the painted image.
Debra Dawes’ paintings have a visceral effect on the viewer. Her work appears cerebral but derives from experience and emotion.
In his ninth decade, John Olsen’s legendary lust for life is as obvious as ever.
Australian artist Kelsey Ashe’s new film work stirs up hidden histories of post-colonial trauma endured by female indigenous pearl divers.
The textiles, installations, moving images and zines created by Raquel Ormella work on us in complex and contemplative ways
Murray Frederick's photographs flicker between representation and formalist abstraction to evoke a euphoria of space.
Dan Kyle's paintings are translations of what he sees – the beauty, the unique forms, the colours – articulating the bush in his own light....
Carolyn V Watson creates elliptical works that elude recognition. Our eyes search for form in fragments, familiarity in the foreign.
The rustic characteristics of Merran Esson's ceramics reference the impermanence of the objects that served as vital tools for farm survival.
Susan Baird’s paintings drift weightlessly between different realities
Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei stood deferentially in front of his self-portrait ‘Plastic Surgery’ (2015)...
Elena Papanikolakis weaves together the cultural histories of her Greek heritage with formative moments from her childhood in Australia.
In Issue 44, Sydney artist Jack Dunbar spoke about his diverse ‘day-to-day’ inside and outside the studio.
There is something both humorous and unnerving in Graeme Drendel’s work, a tension between the familiar and the absurd.
Aida Tomescu’s practice, honed over forty years, is compelled by the artist's devotion to teasing out an idea over time.
Lottie Consalvo’s practice traverses painting, sculpture, performance, video and photography.
Sonia Payes' 'Woman in Bronze' explores creation, destruction, and transformation through a contemporary lens of growing environmental angst.
A survey of Archer's work at Campbelltown Arts Centre explores the decades-long practice of an artist committed to exploring the macabre, and even the morbid,...
When visitors step in beneath the half-raised metal-shuttered doors, they are met with a cross between a heavy-metal workshop and a computer lab ringed with...
With their white carapaces forming a protective border against potential threat, the two figures in Christopher Langton’s sculptural installation Colony could be stand-ins for these...
Sally Anderson speaks about how the deeply autobiographical, the metaphorical and the observed intertwine in her painting practice.
There is a revolutionary mood in Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s new paintings. This Lao-Australian artist returned to the Mekong River to learn from its histories and sacred...
Artist Profile visits Fiona Lowry to discuss how the histories and stories of the Australian bush inform her contemporary renderings of landscape.