“Smashing the frame,” “moving past the border,” and “breaking out of our structures” are some of the expressions Kellie O’Dempsey uses to describe her need...
The inscription could not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. An editioned...
Initially trained as a printmaker (under Michael Kempson, Bruce Latimer and Rew Hanks) Michael Butler enjoyed the form, was thought to be thematically impressive, but...
An artistic life was inevitable for Currey-Billyard, who descends from a “family of artists,” her mother a visual artist, and her father a collaborator who...
The gallery is the project of art dealer and curator Cassandra Bird with her husband Fabian Jentsch, an exhibition maker, set designer and artist. As...
“The greatest darkness can often be concealed by an astonishing colour palette of pinks, reds and gold.” – Sabio. Sabio grew up in Railton in...
Jim’s commitment to the arts extended far beyond the walls of his paint manufacturing business. He recognized the struggles and challenges faced by aspiring artists,...
What kinds of problems and what kinds of meanings happen in paint? What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting? . ....
For each artwork, she constructs fictitious personas, notable for their uncanny artifice. It’s by means of these ambiguous characters and their uneasy actions, that Panegyres...
I have spent more than three decades working with artists and communities both in and outside gallery contexts. I find this work profoundly invigorating and...
When I first saw Janaki Peart’s paintings, I felt a rare excitement. I couldn’t recall seeing work by a young painter that felt so certain...
The point of intersection of the timeless With time is an occupation for the saint – No occupation either, but something given And taken, in...
The obituaries that appeared in the days after his death, online and in newspapers from London to Los Angeles, mostly focused on when he was...
“I am hoping to be a vector for empathy in a world no longer stable, where global ruins and war remind us of the way...
Every so often an Artwork appears, the very name of which – in a few words – captures the most complex issues of its time....
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...
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young...
The first biennale I ever attended was the 18th Biennale of Sydney (BoS) in 2012. I was fifteen at the time, and up until then...
My first memory of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) was visiting the gallery as a young fellow in the early 1960s, with...
Barberis and LeWitt first met in 1974. They became friends, and he remained a supporter and mentor to her until his death in 2007. Although...
In 1974, Tony Shafrazi took a spray can and wrote “KILL ALL LIES” directly onto Picasso’s Guernica, 1937, hanging at the Museum of Modern Art...
Relationship. Joanna Braithwaite’s portrait of loved but departed Pepper, wearing a carrot, is in the “family portraits” section, with the recent Caroline Zilinsky Weimar Republic–referencing...
When it became known last year that the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) had commissioned an artwork by a controversial American artist that few Australians...
It would come as no surprise then, that my conversations with Abbey generally begin here. How could they not. Abbey has an ability to choose...
Throughout the summer, Sydney’s Carriageworks is host to Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins’s Stockwoman, 2022. The mural, with two component parts, wraps around...