There is some irony in the term ‘endangered artefacts’ given that Victoria Reichelt’s work appears to be a painted photographic facsimile. The style itself is...
‘Rituals of the herd’ marks Charmaine Pike’s first Sydney exhibition since 2017. Moving to the next body of work after a successful exhibition, the artist...
John Scurry’s new works in oil and watercolour are most obviously ‘about’ landscape: a life lived within it, the artist’s attachments to it, and the...
Suspended in plume-like formations, hundreds of icicle-shaped glass forms are looming. Was that a sound? They’re alive in the otherwise silent space, swaying slightly in...
The Close World (2020) was built from conversations with GPT-3, and for the project, you fed the model with foundational texts on the philosophy of language. Which...
Ang’s new photobook will be released as part of Melbourne Art Book Fair and Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria....
The works in this survey show span the last three decades of the twentieth century; they function as an historical record of Johnson’s involvement in...
Al Poulet’s recent paintings and drawings are of worlds without objects. They derive from physicality, and a lot of silence. Adopting the mantra of ‘no...
At first blush, there seems to be some kind of code to the arrangement of the small paper dots across the canvas of Nicole Ellis’...
What has influenced your approach to art? It is hard to say, you are what you are and other things affirm what you are. Because...
Representations of women in visual art have historically defined female experience through difference, weakness, passivity, sexual availability, domesticity and, perhaps most unintelligent, an object to...
The designation of textiles and other ‘craft’ as women’s work is, by now, well-worn. Though the works that Florence presents, here, are paintings, they emerge...
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist...
I raise Sherman and Kruger here because in many respects Ces McCully is their direct descendant. Sherman, who utilised photographic self-portraiture, to question self-identity is...
Your first public appearance as Director of the MCA was to launch an exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 1999. You spoke about making...
For ‘Tall Tale,’ at STATION Gallery, McGregor traces new conceptual horizons outwards from his established drawing practice, without losing sight of his sustained interests in...
Certainly, a sense of wonder permeates many of these works. Pliable oils twist across the canvas, casting a glow of enchantment over the landscapes with...
The title of Hirst’s new work, Darling Darling, is double-edged. We might call somebody ‘darling’ affectionately, of course – but repeat the phrase and the tone shifts...
With Melville’s traditions as background, the eye roams over the delicate, fine lines and blizzard-like dots of Timothy Cook’s canvas’ surface.
Justine Varga’s rigorous and ruminative photographic practice transgresses conventional notions of photography.
Asking where expressionist painting began is like asking who invented drawing. Historically, the Western expressionist artist is individualistic, the work not readily situated in specific...
All too few white Australians are aware of the cornucopia of cultural complexities that flourish in the Top End of their country. Despite the best...
Eleanor Louise Butt talks about the ways in which her works ‘speak’ to each other, conversing and sharing expressions across multiple planes until a melody...
Intrinsic to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's practice is her innovative media and highly individual painterly expression that she describes as ‘mayilimiriw’ – meaningless.
Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
