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
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension...
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition...
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...