Elyss McCleary
My upcoming show, at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne, is a presentation of new paintings that explore the sensation of luminous colour with a focus on intimacy. Its title, A Tender Anchor, recalls how formal elements create different harmonies and relationships in paintings, just like we do in our own human interactions. Colour, marks, and […]
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Peter Sharp
Peter Sharp’s exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery is titled Signal, which, as the artist writes, “refers metaphorically to the collision of ideas and objects that supposedly have a purpose.” It is a show of rigorous abstraction where the eye experiences a sense of jostling, between shapes, between textures, and colours, and also within the mind. […]
Suzanne Archer
Throughout her forty years of making art, Suzanne Archer has honoured the death of animals and the natural decay of life through her paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Whether it be bird carcasses, native marsupial corpses, or horse cadavers, her subject matter has corporeal significance and spiritual possibilities in common, all accompanied by heartfelt compassion. She […]
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Heidi Yardley
Let’s start from the beginning. When did you realise that being an artist was the career for you? I was always drawing as a child, and when I was in high school I focused mainly on art in Years Eleven and Twelve. I didn’t think much about what a career meant; I just knew that […]
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James Drinkwater
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably covered in paint. It’s trickier when someone probes a little further. I’m a painter-sculptor. I’m the son of schoolteachers so I saw people get up and go to work every […]
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John Bokor
In recent months, video footage of empty CBDs – especially Melbourne and Sydney – has been circulating through my varied social media feeds. Populating this footage are shopping strips empty of foot traffic, six-lane motorways with a solitary Uber delivery person being blown through on a bike, and huge multi-million dollar stadiums full of silence. […]
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Amber Wallis & Kylie Banyard
In response to Amber Wallis’s Women, shown at Nicholas Thompson Gallery in 2020, Amanda Maxwell wrote: ‘I’ve never seen a ghost And won’t But if I was to I know it would be the ghost of a woman I don’t know why Is more of a woman left? Did she touch more? Hold more?…’ Wallis’s paintings in this […]
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Rhys Lee
Rhys Lee – who typically chooses to let his art speak for itself – took time to sit down with Artist Profile and chat about his practice.
