Issue 29
NEWS
Tom Carment’s charming new Seven Walks book
The Rothschild Prayerbook, a national treasure
UPFRONT
Peter Dreher, Every Day is a Good Day by Lucy Stranger
COVER FEATURE
CHUCK CLOSE by Glenn Barkley + Terrie Sultan
PROFILES
ALICE WORMALD by Owen Craven
JANET FIELDHOUSE by Lucy Stranger
TONY LLOYD by Kent Wilson
GOSIA WLODARCZAK by Jane Somerville
SOPHIA HEWSON by Jane O’Sullivan
PAUL SNELL by Anna Madeleine
PREVIEW
Project: by James Compton
Maria Lassnig by Paul Flynn
Jim Cobb by Bradley Hammond
Process: Kirstin Berg
Process: Bruce Latimer
Process: Joanna Logue
Book Reviews
Preview: PULSE
Preview: Stefan Dunlop
Preview: Rick Amor
Preview: The Phantom Show
View Australia
Discovery: Sue Dale


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...
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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...
For those of us who seek out unfamiliar voices and see the potential for diverse cultures to create new meanings and memories in a postcolonial...
Show me the beauty of a body contorted by thrall. Then, show me the thrall. Shame is a vast word....