Since 1991, the annual Samstag Scholarship has awarded 146 Australian artists the opportunity to study overseas. It provides the space for artists to explore new...
From Paleolithic Venus figurines, whose creation dates from 26,000 to 21,000 years ago, to the Marian relics of contemporary Catholicism, childhood toys, and the kitsch...
‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ is a celebration of contemporary Australian art that connects Sydney’s key inner city cultural precincts and brings together thirty-nine...
In The Vigil (Nocturne), 2021, a set of fingertips emerge from a lace cuff, reaching across the painting’s frame to shine the light of a candle onto...
In 2007, Gillian Sanbrook bought Bibbaringa, a 950-hectare property located in Wymah Valley on the south west slopes of New South Wales. At the time,...
In response to Amber Wallis’s Women, shown at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2020, Amanda Maxwell wrote: ‘I’ve never seen a ghost And won’t Bit if I was to...
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...
Next to his home in Goanna Ridge, Gulong, is Chester Nealie’s kiln. A few hours’ drive from Bathurst, where his works are currently shown, Nealie...
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...
They say as you get older the policemen get younger – for some of us it’s Directors of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), where...
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,...
Snell cites Rainer Maria Rilke on the utility of difficult feeling in artmaking: ‘don’t take my devils away, because my angels might flee too.’ One...
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,...
Meat Mirror, which moves to the Gold Coast this month after premiering at the Brisbane Art and Design Festival, emerges from a set of social conditions...
In a catalogue essay for Courtenay’s upcoming exhibition at ARO Gallery, I See You, Tracey Clement describes the artist’s world-building work as ‘post-apocalyptic.’ There is...
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....
When the great Canadian-born painter Philip Guston’s daughter Musa Mayer wrote a compelling biography Night Studio (1988) about the problems of having a never-around workaholic...
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...
The text-based work which operates as a manifesto for Mombassa’s current show declares that ‘Simplisticism is a new global art movement, religion, and political party....
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...
While vessels hold, portals gesture ceaselessly to elsewhere. When we look at any ceramic vessels, we look at an outside, an exoskeleton. Morgan’s glazed exoskeletons...
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....
