Issue 67

EDITOR’S NOTE

Two important firsts happened in Australasia in April for Indigenous artists worldwide. Archie Moore’s exhibition kith and kin at the Australia Pavilion and Mataaho Collective’s installation Takapau, in the main exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere were awarded the prestigious Golden Lion at La Biennale de Venezia 2024. Moore, for Best National Participation and the Mataaho Collective for Best Artist in the International Exhibition.

The news of their awards came almost immediately via socials through friends in Venice. One couldn’t help feeling the proud vibe of the many thoughtful and heartfelt comments that recognised these artists’ special moment. The commentary didn’t lose sight of the significance of Moore and the Collective being the first Australasians to receive two Golden Lions and in the same year. Nor did the comments overlook the countless others that came before preparing the path for this beautiful moment. In our next issue of Artist Profile, on sale in late August, we will provide in-depth reviews of Australasian artists at La Biennale de Venezia 2024 including Moore’s and the Collective’s exhibitions.

Most artists I know want recognition and preferably before they leave this world. They need it from those who know their art but also from the institutions that should present and collect their art. Too many of our senior artists suffer from a lack of visibility. Take Mike Parr’s performance Underneath the Bitumen The Artist, 2018, in which being buried for seventy-two hours under a Hobart street could be viewed as an extreme metaphor for major gallery recognition denied.

Many artists, curators, arts administrators, and writers have long understood that recognition is necessary for artists to thrive. As an exercise, pick three living senior artists who deserve recognition in Australasia’s major galleries and museums such as the National Gallery of Victoria, and Te Papa etc. Email me at kgouriotis@artistprofile.com.au and I’ll publish your list on the Artist Profile website.

On this cover issue of Artist Profile writer Lilian Cameron recognises the achievements of artist Julie Rrap. For more than forty years Rrap has subverted the male gaze by asserting her life and body into art and history. In June, Rrap will present a new work Time passing through me at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia to express the movement of time in one life.

Writer Jack Howard recognises Jelena Telecki’s first major solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ inaugural Contemporary Projects. Brad Buckley writes on the intellect and achievements of the late artist Richard Dunn. Buckley also reevalutes the work of the late sculptor, Ian Gentle.

After reading Stephen Blanks article on emoji you may view this form of communication differently.

We also recognise many other artists and exhibitions in this issue.

Without your support through your subscription, purchase, and advertising, Artist Profile wouldn’t be able to present this issue to you. Thank you for your recognition.

Kon Gouriotis
Editor

CONTENTS

ISSUE

The Law of Emoji by Stephen Blanks 

COVER FEATURE

Julie Rrap by Lilian Cameron 

PROFILES

Christopher Bassi by Adam Ford
Lee Ufan by Judith Blackall
Nina Sanadze by Inga Walton
Gary Deirmendjian by Nikita Holcombe
Ebony Truscott by Roslyn Orlando
Susie Choi by Elli Walsh
Abdullah M.I. Syed by Matt Cox
Nicola Moss by Bradley Vincent

INSIGHT

POEM Everything Yields by Xavier Harvey
PROCESS Emily Ebbs 
ESSAY Tim Olsen and Evan Hughes: Driven by Human Intelligence by Elizabeth Fortescue
TRIBUTE Richard Dunn: A Spirit of Play by Brad Buckley 
ESSAY X Zhu-Nowell’s Bigger Picture by Hili Perlson 
ESSAY Abbotsford Convent: Full of Heart and Wellbeing by Peter Hill 
PREVIEW Joe Furlonger by Kim Guthrie 
PREVIEW Zoe Grey by Lucy Hawthorne 
REVIEW Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns by H.R. Hyatt Johnston 
POSTER VNS Matrix 
REVIEW Dale Frank: Growers and Showers by Aleksandr Wansbrough 
REVIEW Judy Watson: mundunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri by Louise Martin-Chew
REVIEW Adelaide Biennial: Inner Sanctum by Sarah Hetherington 
REVIEW Ian Gentle by Brad Buckley
REVIEW George Gittoes: Ukraine Guernica by Rhonda Davis 
REVIEW Jelena Telecki Mothers, Fathers by Jack Howard 
REVIEW Paris: Impressions of Life 1880-1925 by Sasha Grishin 
REVIEW Landscape Tells The Way: Illawarra by Brooke Boland 
FILM Blak Douglas vs The Commonwealth by Liam Keenan
BOOK Irene Barberis Sol LeWitt: Exploring the Chester Studio – A Visual Documentation by David Areford
SHORT STORY Digging Deep by Nola Farman