ESSAY I Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Two years ago, Macleod returned to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be with his mother during the final phase of her life. At Sumner Beach, they revisited the familiar rock formation known as Tuawera or Cave Rock, a hulking, volcanically formed volume opening onto an interior space that changes with the tides. To […]
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Tagged Australian art, Australian painting, contemporary art, Euan Macleod, Joe Frost, King Street Gallery, King Street Gallery on William, painting
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ESSAY I Salvatore Zofrea’s Day Cycle
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 monumental scale. These have included the painting on a large scale of all 150 Psalms (of which he has completed 105) and the hundred woodblocks of his Appassionata series, 1994–1999, […]
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ESSAY | Jorge Mariño Brito: Between Bodies
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 his figurative oil paintings and works made using “Stratpulp” (a handmade paper technique the artist developed that creates fibre from second-hand linen clothes) operate within a shared conceptual field, one […]
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Amber Boardman
In Issue 40, Amber Boardman discusses the idiosyncrasies of her practice inside and outside the studio.
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Painting amongst other things
A group exhibition examining the ways in which contemporary painting might be encountered within an expanded field.
Australia’s Impressionists
Recently, Impressionism has been the subject of key exhibitions in Australia and overseas.
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