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,...
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....
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...
Carriageworks CEO Blair French notes that ARIs ‘run largely on the volunteered time and support of their community but operate at the heart of experimental...
Soda_Jerk's film TERROR NULLIUS looks for the unspoken assumptions about Australian culture embedded in the annals of popular entertainment.
David Horton, Dale Miles and Stephanie Monteith make a persuasive case for artists following their curiosity irrespective of fashion. T
Michael Young looks at the shortcomings of the Sydney Biennale's digital offering during COVID-19.
As an Asian in Australia I have always been aware of the fissures and cracks in the colonial project of White Australia.
What kind of book might an artist and a writer create together, given free reign?
When viewers of Acute Misfortune first catch sight of Daniel Henshall playing artiste maudit, Adam Cullen, they may experience a flash of déjà vu.
