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
Nike Savvas: Purple Haze presents intimate screen prints and immersive large-scale installation and video work by Savvas from 2005–2026, each evocative of different places and...
Although physically he is of modest stature, Zofrea has devoted much of his life to grand projects that have been conceived and executed on a...
Through a multidisciplinary collaboration between Rotterdam-based curators, architect Paul Cournet of CLOUD and artist-designer Sabine Marcelis of Studio Sabine Marcelis, the exhibition explores the interplay...
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...