Issue 21
Issue 21’s cover artist is Sydney Ball – a stalwart of Australian painting, who’ devoted his career to colour and abstraction. On the other end of the colour spectrum is Kevin Lincoln, who paints in the still life mode looking at the darker side of contemporary living. In time for summer-holiday ready, we have essays and review on exhibition and art events from around the country – Kaldor Art Projects in Melbourne; APT7 in Brisbane; and Jeffery Smart in Adelaide and regional Victoria.
Featuring
Sydney Ball
Kevin Lincoln
Also Inside
Fergus Binns
Matt Martin
Jumaadi
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
John Pule
Luc Tuymens
Max Miller
Plus Essays, Reviews, News
Jeffrey Smart :: by Anne Sanders
Allora & Calzadilla :: by Jillian Grant
Changing Landscapes :: by Steve Lopes + Euan Macleod
Jenny Saville
Peter F. Daly
Vince Vozzo
Toulouse-Lautrec
Alun Rhys Jones
Ella Dreyfus
Gregory Elms
Gregor Kregar :: Fehily Contemporary
Apt7 :: Qagoma
Clarrice Collien :: Damien Minton Gallery
Sarah Park :: Discovery
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...
