Mignon Steele | Transmitter
“I’ve always tried to paint to reflect the things that strike me in this world. Not objectively, but in essence: nature’s strangeness, patterns disturbed, the cheeky spirit in kid’s drawings, sorrow in music and suburban scrawl. These paintings don’t begin with an idea they start with paint, and the paint becomes a transmitter, allowing the invisible to broadcast.” – Mignon Steele
Mignon Steel – Transmitter from Egg & Dart
Mignon Steele’s work is an exploration of paint as matter. While many contemporary artists reject traditional media, Steele waltzes a deep romance with paint, viscosity and colour. The paintings are largely about themselves, problems; created and solved. History and enigmatic colour build a patina, and with the wry twist from a naïve heart and hand, each mark unravels. Each artwork struggles to address what is vitally compulsive in creative work, to paint what she cannot help but paint.” – Alex Richmond
EXHIBITION
Mignon Steele | Transmitter
11th September – 16th October
The Egg & Dart
The response to Artist Profile over time has shown that getting behind artists and their art matters to you as it does to us. To...
Remembering the incredible life of Charles Blackman OBE, who has passed away one week after his 90th birthday.
Congratulations to this year’s artists selected to take part in the 27th annual ‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia...
Congratulations to Brook Andrew, who has been announced as the Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, taking place in 2020.
Congratulations to Yvette Coppersmith, Yukultji Napangati and Kaylene Whiskey, who have been awarded the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes respectively.
‘JUST LET IT GO’ ASKS THIS ISSUE’S cover artist, Raquel Ormella, in the wonderful embroidery above. Like most of Ormella’s works it has a...
Emerging Melbourne photographer James Bugg takes home the $50,000 2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP).
Congratulations to Steve Lopes, who has won the 2018 Gallipoli Art Prize.
Applications for 2019 Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence program are now open.