Dairy Character has been described in various statements as a “reflection” or “chronicle” of your experience growing up in a rural farming community in South...
Relationship. Joanna Braithwaite’s portrait of loved but departed Pepper, wearing a carrot, is in the “family portraits” section, with the recent Caroline Zilinsky Weimar Republic–referencing...
How would you present Night for Day, 2020, to those who would like to see it, but haven’t yet? Night for Day uses the fake...
My upcoming show, at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne, is a presentation of new paintings that explore the sensation of luminous colour with a focus...
Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 is an artist and researcher who asks many questions, and understands the transient nature of identity. She not only applies institutional critique...
Innately fuelled by emotional response, whether a portrait or landscape, Bergstrom’s work is always a fusion between an empathic approach to the environment and the...
For over sixty thousand years, Torres Strait Islanders have maintained ongoing connections to their lands, seas, skies, and culture. However, without immediate action, this will...
Entitled Finding Form, Graham Lang’s upcoming exhibition searches for primal encounters through paint and sculpture. The elusive title gestures to many things at once, perhaps...
Firstly, welcome back to Melbourne Tom! In early discussions about your work, Kate Nodrum told me that you’ve spent the past few years working in...
The title of your current exhibition at Sarah Cottier Gallery, new and unrelated works, brings to the fore an idea of modularity – or of...
When it became known last year that the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) had commissioned an artwork by a controversial American artist that few Australians...
It would come as no surprise then, that my conversations with Abbey generally begin here. How could they not. Abbey has an ability to choose...
Katherine Hattam’s Melbourne house and studio sing with her paintings, in clear, bright sharply defined colours.
The sweep of this exhibition, from a curatorial perspective, seems to capture so much: a multi-layered topic, and both local practitioners and “big names.” How...
“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...
Coinciding with Sydney WorldPride 2023 and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, QUEER CONTEMPORARY 2023 comprises two major exhibitions, a suite of public programs,...
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...
Recently, I read an acquaintance’s reflection that the condition of embodiment is almost always embarrassment, shame, or discomfort of some kind. In Western, (post)Christian cultures...
Noakes captures light with his hammer. He raises extraordinary three-dimensional objects from flat sheets of metal, and the shifting patterns of marks left by his...
Desire lines are the ultimate unbiased interpretation of natural human and animal intent – referring to tracks worn across grassy patches that generally represent the...
Throughout the summer, Sydney’s Carriageworks is host to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins’s Stockwoman, 2022. The mural, with two component parts, wraps around...
The exhibition takes its name from a quote from LeWitt, where he professed “a great affinity” for the works of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, while the...
Joe Furlonger was born in Cairns in 1952. He grew up in the rural (now semi-rural) Samford Valley near Brisbane. As an adult he worked...
In Koops’s Double Binds #10, 2022, traces of oil paint are at once lyrical and jarringly inert. A creamy strip of what looks like fabric – maybe...
The Miniature Sculpture Show has hosted a staggering number of artists since its first iteration in 1996, held at the original Defiance Gallery premises in Newtown....
