Two Decades of the James Makin Gallery
The place was packed. Artist Godwin Bradbeer, as part of his current exhibition, was giving a public demonstration of his very personal method of making drawings that are almost paintings, and paintings that are almost drawings. “All these artworks are drawn in what was once called freehand, in graphite and waxed chinagraph pencil,” he told […]
Emma Coulter
One of the most defining features of Emma Coulter’s work is her choice of colours, with the artist preferring to work with a limited palette of pre-determined hues and shades sourced from existing synthetic paints. Where other artists may find the limited colour palette restrictive or even repetitive, in Coulter’s hands her choice to work […]
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Belem Lett
Desire lines are the ultimate unbiased interpretation of natural human and animal intent – referring to tracks worn across grassy patches that generally represent the most easily navigated route between origin and destination. In that Deleuzian way, the theory of desire as a productive force, a force that is real without ceasing to be ideal, […]
Antonia Perricone-Mrljak
Physical labour – especially the stubborn and repetitious kinds, like digging, planting, and painting – has a way of impressing itself down into the musculature of those who live through it. Perhaps this is even more the case with those who “make a living” through it, and who depend on it, in both literal and more […]
Peter Hill’s Top Ten Picks from Sydney Contemporary 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing late works of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan. “The effect was like a plane taking off, when the acceleration presses you against the seat. The painting’s violent intelligence detonated […]
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Tagged ARC ONE Gallery, Bett Gallery, Carriageworks, Darren Knight Gallery, Egg & Dart, Fox Jensen Gallery, GAGPROJECTS, How Langsford, James Makin Gallery, MARS Gallery, Michael Bugelli Gallery, National Art School, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Contemporary, THIS IS NO FANTASY
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Holly Greenwood
The central figure in Cats on toast, 2022, has their back to us, the checks on a flannel shirt giving perhaps the most telling clue to their character. A swoop of black oil paint in the centre of their head could be a bald patch; equally, it could be a section of dark hair; more […]
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Sally Walk
Sally Walk has spent over twenty-five years in clay: working (with) it, shaping it, and sounding the outer reaches of its formal and expressive potential. Often, her work has comprised intricate, richly glazed, and delicate forms. They have been occasionally “organic” in their shape and pattern, but with a distinct kind of perfection about them: completeness, wholeness, […]
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