Issue 32
Our cover story this month is an exclusive interview with the painter Peter Godwin, written by John McDonald. It was only in his 50s when he held his first solo exhibition of work, a decade on Peter talks with John about the influence behind the evolution of his practice. Photographer Tamara Dean features her epic dreamlike scenes and discusses her constant challenging of her practice and artistic boundaries. We also feature London-based David Noona, Helga Groves, Greg Creek and Dan Kyle. Timing in with Sydney Contemporary our process section features artists who will be showing at the biennial event this September!
NEWS
Frida Kahlo by Lucy Stranger
COVER FEATURE
PETER GODWIN by John McDonald, photography by Stephen Oxenbury
PROFILES
DAN KYLE by Owen Craven
GREG CREEK by Camille Nock
TAMARA DEAN by Anna Madeleine
DAVID NOONAN by Katy Preston
BRIAN ROBINSON by Ashleigh Wadman
JANET DAWSON by Christine France
HELGA GROVES by Lucy Stranger
MARION BORGELT by Owen Craven
PREVIEW
Country & Western: landscape re-imagined, by Gavin Wilson
Celebrating the Portia Geach Memorial on its 50th anniversary, by Claire Dalgleish
Book Reviews
America is hard to see, by Paul Flynn
Process: Maximilian Daniels
Process: Chloe Vallance
Process: Todd Hunter
Process: James Guppy
Preview: Vivienne Ferguson
Preview: Melinda Harper
Preview: Kevin Connor
Preview: GOMA Q
View Australia
Discovery: Amy Clarke
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...
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...