I am back in Afghanistan and I am more certain than ever that the kind of socially committed art and teaching we doing at our...
Winter Light Photographers and filmmakers call the last hour of sunlight in the afternoon the “magic hour” because colours glow with their fullest intensity and...
Spending time filming George painting on a wall of a destroyed apartment block in Borodyanka today was like sitting still in a forest as creatures...
One time in Chicago I went on a quest for a serrated bread knife. Shop attendants looked at me with fear in their eyes, shaking...
Artists are non-conformists and, from childhood, society tries to force them to conform. The most original are accused of madness. I am here using the...
I discovered German Expressionist artists like Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, George Groz and Otto Dix at high school and immediately felt they were like what...
In 1972, Jane Fonda was the hottest actress in Hollywood since Marilyn Monroe until she was photographed posing on an anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam. Despite...
I left for Islamabad knowing I was “going out on a limb” – that it could “all be for nothing,” and I may have to...
I’m in Italy visiting family during a summer overshadowed by war. Here, the progressive Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, has fallen on his sword trying to...
March 2022 in Kyiv, when the city was empty except for soldiers and volunteers and the tall gothic buildings stood like frozen giants with empty-eyed...
Arriving in a stifling hot Paris – my first visit in a few years – I was taken by the generosity of volunteers I had...
Kate took a platform snap of Hellen and I leaning back on the departure train from Kyiv – it was like the shots of Bonnie...
Watching Putin on TV, May Day, May 9th, from our bomb shelter bedroom in Odessa, interested me not because of the moment when he was...
It has been a long time since I have experienced something as damaging as the Kibeho massacre in Rwanda but the Bridge of Death at...
I was about twelve years old and out on a Sunday picnic in the Royal National Park with my parents and grandparents. Nana set out...
Two unique prints by Belinda Fox – printed with Trent Walter – have been generously made available to Artist Profile readers at AUD $1500, with 100% of the...
An eighteen-year-old with a gun in Texas was the tipping point that drew attention away from Ukraine. This war has slipped from the front of...
Kate and I headed out to Bucha at five this morning, to the Russian tank containing the charred remains of a Russian soldier. Last night...
As we arrived in Kyiv this morning from Odessa on the overnight train there was a real smell of victory in the air. Kate was...
When I was out painting Z the Defiler as an action in the Greek Square, Odessa, with poet, Viktor Solodchuk we were visited by a highly esteemed...
Around ten thirty tonight a huge explosion rocked our building. We are in a three-hundred-year-old building residence – not a hotel but part of the...
A few years ago, some pictures appeared of Putin topless, riding a horse. They seemed to be photoshopped to make him resemble Conan the Barbarian....
Odessa is the most art-oriented and art-friendly city I have ever visited. The people all look super cool, switched on, bohemians. There are free concerts in...
Climate change was doing the job of destroying the planet slowly, but now we are on the brink of nuclear apocalypse. We don’t want this, but...
A fat, stuffed bear sits above a pile of rubble on the only remaining floor of a destroyed building, between two gutted apartment towers. This...
