Issue 11
We take you into the studio of a multimedia trailblazer – photographer, light sculptor, collagist, printmaker, public installation artist and all-round intellectual – Brook Andrew. Artist Profile is granted an exclusive interview and discussion of his new work Jumping Castle War Memorial, which will be on show in the 17th Biennale opening 12 May. Another artist at the Biennale Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the most important Japanese photographers of his generations speaks to Gillian Serisier.
Featuring
Brook Andrew
Elisabeth Cummings
Also Inside
Mary Scott
Alexander Seton
Neil Taylor
Steve Cox
Suzanne Archer
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Plus Essays, Reviews, News
Sebastian Smee on Kentridge
Ian Grant Why Painting Isn’t Dead yet?


Ron Mueck’s shockingly alive sculptures hit us at many points along the pathway from birth to death. But it’s more than just mortal decay that...
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light draws on more than 300 photographs and photomedia from the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) collection and the...
Motet Fail, 2026, reshapes Artist Run Initiative, West Space into an immersive backgammon board that operates as a site of reflection, encounter, and quiet concert....
Carvings have been made for all time by Aurukun men. However, the more recent innovation to emerge from Aurukun are paintings. Vested in Country and...
A stone’s throw from the Illawarra escarpment at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the introduction to Draper’s ecosphere is a gathering of rainbow forms which, as an...
In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and...
Ruby Arrowsmith–Todd started attending the AGNSW film program in its early days as a self-educated, die-hard film fan, immersing herself in the cinematic sea of...
For most painters, tape has a prophylactic function. Stuck temporarily onto a canvas (or a doorframe, for that matter), tape protects what lies beneath or...
Deborah Halpern’s studio is engulfed with works in progress occasionally dispersed with other images and sculptures that illicit happiness. In the vast double window space,...