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The Cult of the Curator
But when it comes to curating group shows of contemporary art something seems to have gone seriously awry.
Frank Nowlan
Glenn Barkley interviews Frank Nowlan about his early years as an artist, his practice now pushing the artistic mode to examine what this life is about.
Issue 37
Artist Profile Issue 37 from Artist Profile on Vimeo. Change matters in this issue of Artist Profile. Our cover artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn understands the dangers and happiness of change with her recent focus on the Mekong River. This is a sharp change from her distinctive paintings that related to the Australian bush and her Lao […]
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Ian Strange | Shadows
Australian born, New York-based artist Ian Strange returns to Sydney to broach a familiar subject in a not so familiar way.
Elisabeth Cummings
When talking about her work, Cummings is hesitant to speak in absolutes. She prefers to describe art in terms of its possibilities and the wonderment of the journey.
The Rothschild Prayerbook
KERRY STOKES RECENTLY made worldwide headlines with the purchase of the world’s most expensive book, the Rothschild Prayerbook.
Peter Cooley
Widely known since the 1980s as a painter, Peter Cooley has now spent a little over a decade committed to his ceramic practice.
Artists involved in Your Friend the Enemy
Deirdre Bean • Elisabeth Cummings • Steve Lopes • Guy Maestri • Euan Macleod • Idris Murphy • Michael Nock • Peter O’Doherty • Susan O’Doherty • Stanley Palmer • Amanda Penrose Hart • Leo Robba • Luke Sciberras • Michael Shepherd • Jonathan Throsby • John Walsh
Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape works.
Leo Robba
The landscape has always been Robba’s muse, but in this expedition the meaning goes beyond the surface of the painting.
30 Years of the Sternberg Collection
To mark the 30 year anniversary since the first art works collector and philanthropist Goldie Sternberg donated to the Gallery, a new exhibition, The connoisseur and the philanthropist: 30 years of the Sternberg collection will showcase exquisite ceramics, stone and bronze sculptures, textiles and paintings, acquired through the generosity of benefactors Edward and Goldie Sternberg , their family and friends.
2014 Prudential Eye Awards winners announced
Over 500 nominations for the 2014 Prudential Eye Awards for Contemporary Asian Art came from 30 countries throughout greater Asia. The Awards celebrate and recognise artistic talent from greater Asia across digital/video, installation, painting, photography and sculpture, and offer a platform to showcase contemporary Asian artists.
Issue 25
This Issue of Artist Profile features a fascinating interview with one of Australia’s great artists Jan Senbergs. We cover the upcoming Melbourne Now exhibition, John McDonald writes on Chinese painter Li Jin and a wide range of artist and exhibition coverage leading into the summer period.
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Kaldor Projects and Sydney Festival announce Project 28: Roman Ondák
Kaldor Public Art Projects is always worth getting excited about, and this one is no exception!
Issue 24
12 industry leaders share their views on the state of Contemporary Art in an exclusive 32-page feature, Judgment Calls. We partner with the inaugural Sydney Contemporary Art Fair at Carriageworks, where our renowned cover artists Kevin Connor and Cressida Campbell were photographed for this special issue of Artist Profile.
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Issue 23
A sneak peek inside the pages of Issue 23, featuring Jiawei Shen & Simryn Gill. Also, Juan Ford, Giles Alexander, Marlene Dumas, Rew Hanks, Tom Polo, and Agatha Gothe-Snape. Plus: Essays, Opinions, News and Reviews.
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Issue 21
Issue 21’s cover artist is Sydney Ball – a stalwart of Australian painting, who’ devoted his career to colour and abstraction. On the other end of the colour spectrum is Kevin Lincoln, who paints in the still life mode looking at the darker side of contemporary living. In time for summer-holiday ready, we have essays […]
Gregory Crewdson Lecture
Offering a surreal view of middle America, Gregory Crewdson’s photographs are dramatically stylized scenes that some have compared to the melancholic paintings of Edward Hopper and the gothic films of David Lynch.
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BEAMS arts festival: Chippendale
Head down to Balfour Street, Chippendale on September 22nd for the BEAMS Festival, a creative spectacular hosted by the Chippendale Creative Precinct (CCP), for one night only.
Issue 20
Issue 20 is our Fifth Anniversary Edition, with an extra 24 pages in the magazine to celebrate this milestone.
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Facial at TCB Art Inc.
Portraiture artists Matthew Hopkins, Mary MacDougall and Tom Polo have a common thread running through their individual practices: an interest in celebrating subjects undergoing visual transformations. Working across varied mediums and stylistic agendas, Hopkins, MacDougall and Polo produce portraits suspended between abstraction and simple representational forms. At the core of Matthew Hopkins’ current body of […]
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SUB12 Newport in its third year running
“Twelve Artists, Twelve Weeks, Twelve Ambitious New Works,” runs the slogan for SUB12. An annual three month long exhibition in its third year running, SUB12 brings together some of the most interesting names in Australian contemporary art under the roof of south-west Melbourne’s iconic Newport substation. The exhibition presents an experimental mix of sculpture, painting, […]
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Angus Wood: Ghosts of Oblivion
Contemporary painter, Angus Wood, offers work that blends Romanticism’s horror and awe with an extreme sublimity. His work is characterised by pits of darkness, which allude to a hyper-real realm where the human condition falls prey to the enormity of the natural environment. In his latest body of work, Wood’s emotive agenda centres on human […]
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Creative Australia Fellowships announced
Getting your ‘break’ as an emerging artist can be tough. Thanks to the Australia Council for the Arts, however, it just got a little bit easier. Creative Australia Fellowships is a major new initiative to help unearth budding talent and enrich established. As part of the Federal Government’s Creative Australia Grants Initiative, $10 million will […]
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