Issue 36
| November 9, 2016
Issue 36’s cover artist is Reg Mombassa, one of Australia’s most popular and idiosyncratic artists. We speak with the talented creative force about a life lived well in the arts. Our writers also explore 19 other talented artists’ across Australasia including Kerrie Hughes, Ross Laurie, Paul Boston, Catherine O’Donnell and Karen Mills.
ISSUE
LETTER by Ben Quilty
COVER FEATURE
REG MOMBASSA by Steve Lopes, photography by Tony Lopes
PROFILES
KERRIE HUGHES by Bridget Macleod
JUSTINE VARGA by Anna Johnson
BRUCE ARMSTRONG by Ashley Crawford
KAREN MILLS by Sara Sweet
ROSS LAURIE by Joe Frost
CATHERINE O’DONNELL by Lucy Stranger
PAUL BOSTON by Kon Gouriotis
DANELLE BERGSTROM by Chloe Mandryk
NICK MOURTZAKIS by Owen Craven
PREVIEW
Review: Miriam Stannage, by Laetitia Wilson
Archive: Paul Partos, by Guy Stuart
Essay: SAM, by Joe Kinsela
Process: Evan Salmon
Process: Stephen Armstrong
Process: Naomi Hobson
Book Review: Ngarra, by Lucy Stranger
Preview: Visons of Utopia, by Kon Gouriotis
View Australia
Discovery: Adam Stone
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,...