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?
It may not seem obvious that paintings – produced by the artist’s hand, and using his instantly-recognisable personal vocabulary of symbols and characters, and displayed...
In my studio in the Hawkesbury, I work in almost total solitude and I love it, so I’m sure these feelings were exacerbated by the...
Lauren O’Connor’s Twin Falls (Wodi Wodi Country), 2022, is tremulous: energetic, almost rapturous movements of the paintbrush across the canvas capture the vibratory energy of...
Grace Burzese’s energetic abstract work Cocoon, 2013, layers cobalt blue against wine red and white. The brushwork is gestural. The application of paint to the...
Across George Kennedy’s Skyline Trespass, 2022, something topographical is happening. Shadow and light shift across the picture plane, as if tracing the ridges and gullies...
There is an argument to be made that his work is a by-product of his very remarkable life; or that his paintings exist to support...
Mel O’Callaghan’s new exhibition art Sydney’s Carriageworks is titled with a capacious, and kind of porous, claim: All is Life. The very openness of this...
In an artist’s statement accompanying the exhibition of this body of work at Queenscliff Gallery, Klein writes that the show “addresses a particularly divisive period...
In Girlfriends, 2022, two young women stand shoulder-to-shoulder on a track running through a field of lush vegetation. They gaze directly into the camera. Their even eye...
