Adriana Māhanga Lear
In the final weeks of her PhD thesis deadline, Adriana is generous with her time and her words. She speaks fluently about her interdisciplinary practice, which is motivated by aims of decolonisation, Indigenous self-determination, and social justice across Moana Oceania (the Pacific). Interested in the intersection of sound and visuals as equal conduits of meaning […]
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Sara Maher and the expression of light
Sara Maher was the first artist I met in Tasmania. I encountered Maher gently arranging tiny drawings and prints in a tree for the 2004 Mountain Festival Sculpture Trail. It was a generous work, and despite its public location, deeply personal. The illustrations stemmed from an intuitive “drawing and writing process” that Maher and her […]
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Nick Collerson
Collerson’s studio—a former SES [State Emergency Service] hall—is long and mostly windowless, spacious yet stacked with canvases. As we sit, I ask about his day and Collerson mentions he’s been translating Aristotle’s Poetics, using self-taught Ancient Greek. Ancient philosophy is a cavernous place to begin, so I segue to a drum kit and guitar in […]
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Up in the air and down on the ground Rosemary Laing, 1959-2024
“She is after all not a nature photographer but the photographer of a predicament . . .” Douglas Kahn, Photofile, 1995 I am listening to Rosemary Laing play on the Steinway piano in the Boyd family sitting room at Bundanon where she was in residence. She recorded herself playing as an accompaniment to her otherwise […]
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The Signs Are Good: 20 years of painting the future
Norton’s 20-year survey is comprehensive and greatly defined by the artist’s upbringing – born in the 1950s and growing up during the political and social upheaval of the 1970s and 1980s. The Cold War and imminent threat of nuclear war permeated the press and popular culture. In these larger-than-life experiences it is unsurprising that the […]
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Issue 44
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 ensure we’re evolving with you and the ever changing artistic landscape of Australasia, the magazine has embarked on some exciting changes. After ten years with nextmedia, Artist Profile has […]
