Issue 12
| September 3, 2010
Our Issue 12 cover artist George Gittoes tells of his award-winning career as a painter and documentary maker in the world’s most troubled hotspots. We also meet with feminist icon Deborah Kelly; Tim Maguire unveils his latest foray into film; and Joe Frost discusses bad language in art criticism.
Featuring
George Gittoes
Deborah Kelly
Also Inside
Lara Merrett
Moya Mckenna
Tim Maguire
Penny Byrne
Godwin Bradbeer
Giacomo Costa
Plus Essays, Reviews, News
Joe Frost on Cliched Art Terms
Laura Fischer on Ethics in Indigenous Art
Steve Lopes on Leon Golob
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...
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s...
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding...
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese...
Senior Pitjantjatjara artist, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, was born in 1952 near Bumbali Creek in the Northern Territory, close to the border with South Australia; daughter...