Author Archives: Elli Walsh
ISSUE 49
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> EDITOR’S NOTE It may be tempting to situate this issue of Artist Profile within a feminist framework, adding to the growing discourse surrounding gender inequality within the arts. Indeed, the trope of the male […]
George Raftopoulos
If you have ever met or talked to George Raftopoulos, you will know he has been fighting notions of conformity his entire life.
Jacqui Stockdale
Jacqui Stockdale works across photography, drawing, painting, collage and performance to explore the disparate and overlooked histories of Australia.
George Gittoes
George Gittoes has been travelling the world for over forty years, visiting those regions that appear in brief, blood-spattered segments on the nightly news.
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HOME
Among the many communities who are rallying together to support the victims of this season’s unprecedented bushfires, the artworld is playing its part.
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Tagged Abdul Abdullah, Alex Seton, australian bushfires, Caroline Rothwell, Guy Maestri, Jonny Niesche, Jude Rae, Mike Parr
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Keith Haring + Jean-Michel Basquiat
‘Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines’ explores the intersecting lives of two of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Basquiat, Crossing Lines, Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, NGV
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Pedro Wonaeamirri
In Issue 39, John von Sturmer discusses how Pedro Wonaeamirri engages with ancient Tiwi teachings.
Karla Dickens
Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens has long been involved in green politics. For Dickens it has all been said and no-one is listening – so now it is about taking time to listen to the land itself and to build a deeper understanding of Country.
Josh Foley
Josh Foley’s visceral paintings create visually complex worlds that question the materiality behind the painted image.
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor’s expressionist compositions speak of an extraordinary intensity and energy maintained over a long and prolific oeuvre.
Paul Davies
Paul Davis excavates unexpected resonances between the connected history of California and New South Wales.
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu’s practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
Posted in Profiles
Tagged Aboriginal art, indigenous art, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
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all things are water
Water seeps into the dark hallways of The Lock-up, a heritage listed former police station and lock-up in Newcastle.
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Angela Tiatia, Dale Colliers, Hannah Jenkins, Naomi Riddle, The Lock-Up, Todd McMillan
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Vale James Mollison
James Mollison, who was born in 1931 and died Sunday 19 January, made an extraordinary contribution to Australian culture.
Prue Venables
Prue Venables’ exhibition is the ninth in a series of solo exhibitions initiated by the Australian Design Centre to celebrate Australia’s most respected craft practitioners.
Tracey Moffatt and Hayley Millar-Baker
Tracey Moffatt’s powerful images are exhibited with the photography of an emerging artist at Broken Hill Regional Gallery.
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Tagged Hayley Millar-Baker, tracey moffatt
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Nike Savvas
Dissonance is part of the dazzle in Nike Savvas’ colourful installation at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, NZ.
Warwick Thornton
The affinity that Indigenous people feel for the land is integral to Warwick Thornton’s art through both his cinematic work and his photography.
Tarnanthi 2019
Now in its fourth year, South Australia’s annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art brings together the work of over 1000 First Nations artists from across the continent.
Jumaadi
Jumaadi deals with the dark weight of colonisation and forced migration, of displacement, loneliness and isolation, while celebrating beauty as a basic requirement for survival.
McLean Edwards
McLean Edwards’ paintings are a form of portraiture he calls ‘emotional larceny’.
John Olsen
In his ninth decade, John Olsen’s legendary lust for life is as obvious as ever.
Kelsey Ashe
Australian artist Kelsey Ashe’s new film work stirs up hidden histories of post-colonial trauma endured by female indigenous pearl divers.
