Fairy Tales, curated by Amanda Slack-Smith at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), is a remarkable exhibition, featuring over a hundred works assembled from genres...
Jónsi’s Hrafntinna (Obsidian) and Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams are two of Mona’s three showcase temporary exhibitions. While Jónsi’s installation arouses an emotional and even transcendental...
For Sydney-based, Auckland-born artist Michael McHugh his colourful paintings are informed by the reordering of plant form DNA; he undertakes extensive research in the field...
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...
Of course, no painter is forced to work on a traditional, stretched canvas and in recent years the informality of a sheer piece of material,...
Leah Fraser is enchanted by the universal psyche that has connected civilisations, both ancient and contemporary, throughout history. “It’s so interesting that as humans we...
The notion of a contemporary art biennial as a site of refuge is appealing, if somewhat unexcepted, in our current climate. Biennials generally brim with...
So reads a wall text at the entrance to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Kandinsky, serving as a reminder that the artist’s aspiration...
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s iterative artistic practice is steeped in rich materiality and symbolism. Her detailed intricate works traverse landscape and spirituality, as well as her experiences...
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...
I was sitting on a chair in the Piazza Bar at the Preview of the Melbourne Art Fair (MAF), sipping a Piper-Heidsieck champagne (one of...
In his small studio located in a garage on the Illawarra escarpment, Christopher Zanko has temporarily set aside his wood-cut tools and brushes. His exhibition...
In Sydney during December, a solo show in one of the city’s longest-established commercial galleries and a group exhibition in an artist-run space approached the...
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...
When John Wolseley arrived in Australia in 1976, he was already a well-trained and well-established thirty-eight-year-old English painter and printmaker with numerous exhibitions to his...
Such ignorance was symptomatic and systemic. In the introduction to his 2019 book The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga O Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley writes:...
“I’ve only realised this within the past decade or so,” he continues, “but looking back, that’s really what it’s been the whole time.” Meade intuitively...
“Surface. It doesn’t matter what you paint, your works are about surface.” In his Darlinghurst studio, surrounded by two decades of his work, Knight reflects...
“The greatest darkness can often be concealed by an astonishing colour palette of pinks, reds and gold.” – Sabio. Sabio grew up in Railton in...
Kain migrated with her family from India to Australia in 1993, and during her childhood was shielded from the weight of the Indian caste system....
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,...
This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia...
What kinds of problems and what kinds of meanings happen in paint? What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting? . ....
Media and techniques juxtapose the technological/visual in terms of photography and the material/tactile in textile techniques. The dynamic relationship and binary tensions resulting from combining...
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...