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.
Chinese-Australian artist Guan Wei stood deferentially in front of his self-portrait ‘Plastic Surgery’ (2015)...
Katherine Hattam’s Melbourne house and studio sing with her paintings, in clear, bright sharply defined colours.
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...
Elena Papanikolakis weaves together the cultural histories of her Greek heritage with formative moments from her childhood in Australia.
In Issue 44, Sydney artist Jack Dunbar spoke about his diverse ‘day-to-day’ inside and outside the studio.
There is something both humorous and unnerving in Graeme Drendel’s work, a tension between the familiar and the absurd.
Aida Tomescu’s practice, honed over forty years, is compelled by the artist's devotion to teasing out an idea over time.
