Around the same time that Daniel Boyd’s exhibition RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) opened at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, marking the multidisciplinary artist’s most comprehensive solo show in...
1970, the year Adam Hill was born, was a turbulent time of great change. It was time of the beginning of the Papunya Tula dot-...
“Entombed in Joy” might be a contradiction in terms, but so are, in some sense, the paintings that it names. In Shen’s most buoyant body...
What a curator is, and what a curator does, has been an evolving discussion over the past century, with the role and reach of curation...
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum...
The task of writing about one’s process is a fraught one. For myself, there are many shifts of method and material between each exhibition and...
Floating Land, which l started in 2001, grew out of the European art-in-nature movement, and was based on the French event Le Vent des Forets....
Fox is clearly nourished by her practice, with a love of making that permeates and is influenced by all elements of her life. This can...
One of the most defining features of Emma Coulter’s work is her choice of colours, with the artist preferring to work with a limited palette...
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work...
Matthew Cheyne has structured his life around family and home, both tethered to an art practice that is integral to who he is. Sustainability is...
Jørn Utzon was guided by the ideology that architecture is not an external form, but a frame enclosing a collection of ritualised events. For Mika...
“Flight” is a compelling title for an exhibition. The word suggests transcendence. It calls to mind a kind of ideal: the half-formed notion that we...
Oceans of Air does many things, but all of them revolve around a central imperative: slow down. Tomás Saraceno plunges you into darkness on entering...
The raw matter of Gabrielle Courtenay’s work often appears to her like a dream-like force. Branches, root forms, discarded household objects—these drop down or are...
“I think an experience is not something that just happens to us, it’s something we choose to do,” Olafur Eliasson opined. The Icelandic–Danish artist was...
Modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Peter Booth render humans moving shadows, blended with their environs. Euan Macleod charts a different path. In his...
This playful approach is designed to keep a viewer interested, and he’s eager to throw them off the scent of how a work was made....
I’ve been hypnotised by drawings for as long as I can remember. My eyes are curious, always scanning the shapes of things, tracing repeat patterns...
Just as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed –...
The glass scene in Australia is rumbling, swelling. A jolt of new energy pulses through its crystalline veins as many contemporary artists are starting to...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current...
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...
Jenny, you grew up in suburban Melbourne and you have spoken about how that experience hugely influenced your practice. Now you split your time between...
You have a substantial history working in both film and contemporary art. How do you find traversing the two fields? Video art and film pose...