Ann Thomson has been an important force in Australian art since she graduated from The National Art School over five decades ago.
In Issue 50, Laurie Nilsen told Michael Aird about his life and career – shortly before the much-loved artist passed away.
Known for her multi-media installations featuring a variety of hand-honed materials, Fiona Hall is focusing her energies on the fraught subject of war.
One gets the sense that if you peeled back the painted skin, layer by layer, you could come to understand the intricacies of Gemma Smith's...
Jacqui Stockdale works across photography, drawing, painting, collage and performance to explore the disparate and overlooked histories of Australia.
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.
In Issue 39, John von Sturmer discusses how Pedro Wonaeamirri engages with ancient Tiwi teachings.
Josh Foley’s visceral paintings create visually complex worlds that question the materiality behind the painted image.
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
Debra Dawes’ paintings have a visceral effect on the viewer. Her work appears cerebral but derives from experience and emotion.
The affinity that Indigenous people feel for the land is integral to Warwick Thornton’s art through both his cinematic work and his photography.
Australian artist Kelsey Ashe’s new film work stirs up hidden histories of post-colonial trauma endured by female indigenous pearl divers.
A Wiradjuri woman living in regional New South Wales, Karla Dickens is known for her often provocative reflections on Australian culture, past and present.
It may be difficult to name an Australian painter who creates work with as much intellectual rigour as Tom Polo.
Underwater ruins and antiquated atlases form sites of inspiration for Polish-born Australian artist Izabela Pluta.
The textiles, installations, moving images and zines created by Raquel Ormella work on us in complex and contemplative ways
Patricia Piccinini divides opinions with her hand-crafted hybrid objects that dissolve notions of pure entities or borders having ever existed.
Murray Frederick's photographs flicker between representation and formalist abstraction to evoke a euphoria of space.
Dan Kyle's paintings are translations of what he sees – the beauty, the unique forms, the colours – articulating the bush in his own light....
Carolyn V Watson creates elliptical works that elude recognition. Our eyes search for form in fragments, familiarity in the foreign.
Sometimes I get asked how I make my work. I’m not so sure, but I think the past is somehow important. Not only how you...
The rustic characteristics of Merran Esson's ceramics reference the impermanence of the objects that served as vital tools for farm survival.
