Issue 28
| November 11, 2014
A Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition, the issue is packed with program and exhibition highlights about the big event. On the cover is Melbourne-based Emily Floyd who talks us through her studio practice and what influences her large scale installation works ahead of a survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
NEWS
Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Watters Gallery 50th Anniversary
UPFRONT
MELBOURNE ART FAIR by Lucy Stranger
COVER FEATURE
EMILY FLOYD by Bridget Macleod
PROFILES
BELINDA FOX by Lucy Stranger
FIONA PARDINGTON by Owen Craven
NOEL MCKENNA by Gregory O’Brien
PETER COOLEY by William Sturrock
FRANK NOWLAN by Glenn Barkley
JOHN MAWURNDJUL by Colleen O’Reilly
GAO RONG by Luise Guest
PREVIEW
Arthur Boyd by Steve Lopes
Hanging up the Brushes by Trevor Weekes
The Soft Approach by A.J.Edwards
Process: Rod Holdaway
Process: Terry Matassoni
Process: Hobie Porter
Book Reviews
Preview: Pia Johnson
Preview: TarraWarra Biennial
Preview: Bodies In Space
View Australia
Discovery: Michelle Cawthorn
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,...