Joe Furlonger Landscape
Landscape has been a dominant force in Australian art since colonial times, a place for myth and legend to play out, the supreme example being Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, 1946-47, where human and landscape meld and morph into one mythic dreaming. Then there is Fred Williams who reinvented how to describe and see the […]
Kon Gouriotis OAM in conversation with Joe Furlonger
You’re invited! This Saturday, 29th of June at 3pm, Artist Profile’s editor, Kon Gouriotis, will be in conversation with Joe Furlonger, at Defiance Gallery, Sydney, to open Furlonger’s new exhibition: Landscape. A long-time lover of Furlonger’s work, Kon will be chatting to him about his methods, practice and career in what we know will be […]
Joe Furlonger: Horizons
Joe Furlonger was born in Cairns in 1952. He grew up in the rural (now semi-rural) Samford Valley near Brisbane. As an adult he worked as a farmhand and on fishing boats, attended art schools in Brisbane and Sydney and, after a period of gestation and experimentation, launched an artistic career that has sustained over […]

