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?
No artist creates in isolation. Every painting carries traces of the conversations, places and histories that shaped it, preserving within its surface a particular moment...
The weekend markets at Fairfield Showground have been one of Western Sydney’s great institutions for more than fifty years. Fresh fruit and vegetables, children’s clothes,...
In recent times, Yorgos Lanthimos has shifted toward photography, noting in a Guardian interview, 2026, that he needs respite, saying, “it might be a couple...
In Australia, political cartoons were altered by several events during the 1960s: the arrival of Les Tanner’s (1927‒2001) instinctual wit at The Bulletin, Bruce Petty’s...
Recognition of the importance of early bark paintings and their link to the world’s oldest continuing culture, is what makes them both highly sought and...
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the...
Cuban-born, Brisbane-based artist Jorge Mariño Brito’s practice unfolds across two material registers that are best understood not as parallel tracks but as entwined explorations. Both...
The first work you encounter in Edge City is a gate, Settlement #8, 2025. Not one to pass through (not anymore), but a threshold nonetheless....
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an...