CONTENTS
NEWS :: Out and About
NEWS :: Picasso in Australia
PROFILES
BRENDAN HUNTLEY talks to Francis Parker about his unique heads and faces; creations borne simply of his imagination in the studio.
ADAM LEE and Dan Rule discuss his paintings of imagined worlds with a science fiction bent, indefinable as a real place or time.
JACQUI STOCKDALE is Issue 17’s cover artist. Her paintings and mixed-media practice explores the human body and the individual living in our globalized and interconnect world. Lesley Chow talks to Stockdale about what feeds the her creative practice.
BRENT HARRIS is one of Australia’s preeminent abstract painters. He and Ashley Crawford discuss the intuition that drives his practice.
JOHN PEART explains to Joe Frost how his paintings evolve loosely as he embarks on painting without “a fixed idea of the end result”.
TERRY BATT welcomes Peter Hill into his studio as he finishes his latest body of work, inspired by his fascination with Chinese culture.
RICHARD DUNN works often with abstract forms but is driven more by source images, as he explains to Gillian Serisier as they look together at his latest exhibition.
MONIKA BEHRENS speaks with Paul Flynn about the political thinking behind her satirical paintings that draw on the figurative genres of still life and surrealism.
ELGER ESSER dissects vistas from his extensive globe-trotting to highlight human impact on our natural world. Owen Craven looks with Esser at his vast landscape photographs to reveal his point of view.
PREVIEW
RACHAEL WATTS :: reflects on a recent curators residency in Europe.
STEVE LOPES :: talks about an artist’s usefullness.
DAVID COLES :: unweaving the rainbow.
CONVERSATION :: ROBERT MALHERBE.
CONVERSATION :: ANNE JUDELL.
PROCESS by ROBERT McLEOD.
PROCESS by ANGELA LANE.
PROCESS by STEPHEN LEES.
PROJECT by DEBORAH MARKS.
PREVIEW of LIONEL BAWDEN @ Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
PREVIEW of HENRI MATISSE @ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
PREVIEW of SEASON 11 @ Stills Gallery, Sydney.
BOOK REVIEWS by Lisa Omergari.
VIEW NZ :: by Gregory O’Brien.
VIEW AUST :: by Owen Craven.