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
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...
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...
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding...
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...