The two-and-a half-kilogram catalogue for the Dangerously Modern exhibition, set inside its pink, gossamer carry bag, is the perfect metaphor for this exhibition at the...
A stone I died and rose again; A plant I died and rose an animal; I died an animal and was born a man. Why...
The Stülerbau West, the historical part of Museum Berggruen in Berlin, has been undergoing a substantial renovation since autumn 2022. A selection from the Berggruen...
MIRRORSCAPE, by French artist Théo Mercier, is the first presentation of his work in Australia. MIRRORSCAPE is a sculpture delicately and masterly carved from tonnes...
Bathurst has inspired the exhibition yet it’s not an exhibition about Bathurst. My mum grew up there. My grandparents and uncle had a farm there,...
Teo Treloar was twenty-six when he decided to apply to Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), the University of Sydney. He graduated with a bachelor...
I was in Rwanda with a medical unit of Australian Peacekeepers at Kibeho where thousands of internally displaced refugees were crowded together at a Cathedral...
This text has been commissioned to articulate my feelings about the value of artist Khaled Sabsabi. I feel strongly that Khaled Sabsabi is overdue to...
Collerson’s studio—a former SES [State Emergency Service] hall—is long and mostly windowless, spacious yet stacked with canvases. As we sit, I ask about his day...
How can large woven tapestries, meters high and wide, come to be lost? Weaving is a primal medium, said to have been the first building...
Brian Robinson is a multi-skilled contemporary artist whose practice combines his passion for experimentation crossing boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Norton’s 20-year survey is comprehensive and greatly defined by the artist’s upbringing – born in the 1950s and growing up during the political and social...
The outside walls of the Wollongong Art Gallery are clad in several panels of different shades of pink, from Pantone 7422C to Pantone 1767C, held...
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...
For many Western Australians, Ross Seaton (1944–2020) was the “Walking Man.” He is a vivid memory, a point of reference, a marker in our unfolding...
West works now in a studio in Brisbane. She’s surrounded in this environment by concrete, traffic, glitz. Many of her works recall beloved landscapes: the...
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...
First impressions can be deceiving. The impact of this tenth version of The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (the APT) was less of a...
Bill Henson is preparing for an upcoming show. He says that “new pictures grow out of old pictures. With these recently completed works there has...
“I think Zofrea achieves the power of his paintings to stay with the viewer by remaining true to his child-self. This is, as he says,...
It is not the first time I have seen the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in its planning stage, witnessing the potential...
In front of Rrap’s Secret Strategies, Ideal Spaces series, 1987, viewers with an archival impulse might find themselves looking for wall text inside, or at the very least...
My recent exhibition, Colony, at Tolarno Galleries in August 2019, was a large-scale immersive installation that was conceived after a personal experience of a viral...
I use the term “survey” loosely, however, as the exhibition is staged far from chronology. Instead, it centres on a series of sets: the diametric themes,...
