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Naomi Eller

Naomi Eller is a multidisciplinary artist with a predilection for the ceramic medium. In it, she has not only found a pliable and responsive material for sculpting forms, but a language to form axioms.

Studio

By Varia Karipoff
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio talks about Frida Kahlo’s photos

Both Frida and Diego were productive and intensive artists, so they collected photographs as iconography to paint from.

Interview

By Steve Dow
Podcast: Gunybi Ganambarr on creating, building and etching

Since embarking on a creative path only a mere 15 years ago, Yolŋu artist Gunybi Ganambarr has been continuously praised for his weaving of Indigenous forms and traditional stories with a contemporary sensibility.

Feature

By Tiarney Miekus
Robyn Sweaney: Backwards looking forwards

“In this new body of work my paintings focus on houses that were influenced by the trend of modernism that crept into the suburbs, mainly in the 1960s,” says Sweaney.

Preview

By Barnaby Smith
James Geurts works between landscape and perception

The work of James Geurts traverses a range of territories: fault lines in Bendigo, archaeological sites in Melbourne, Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory, tectonic plates colliding in Italy and two different points on the meridian.

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus
Extra

In her solo show Extra, Adrienne Doig stitched herself into reproductions of the Bayeux Tapestry. This cheeky act of historical revision highlights the fact that in all propaganda, as in all histories, the officially sanctioned version is never the whole story.

Review

By Tracey Clement

Inherited Histories

Family and national history are tied up for Phuong Ngo, who has amassed an archive tracing Vietnam’s tumultuous past.

Feature

By Andy Butler

In These Hands: Mara nyangangka

In These Hands expands into a broad survey, marking out the diverse practices of some 28 living Ernabella painters, ceramicists, punu (timber) workers and weavers working with tjanpi desert grass.

Preview

By Sheridan Coleman

A Guide to Guides on Collecting Contemporary Art

Want to collect contemporary art, but not sure how to start? In the immortal words of JK Rowling, “When in doubt, go to the library.” Zara Sigglekow sums up what four books on art collecting have to offer, from personal stories to financial advice.

artplus

By Zara Sigglekow

Clare Milledge: Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock

Milledge’s visual language slips between abstract painting and witchy mysticism; the connections between work and title often oblique. Is gazing at a painting and trying to divine its meaning really so different from reading entrails or casting bones?

Preview

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

Dark Matter

Gothic Beauty at Bendigo Art Gallery shows the enduring lure of the elaborate yet sombre aesthetic, particularly fitting for the Victorian goldrush city.

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)

The Asia-Pacific region might be an uncertain construct, but Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial is about knowing our neighbours and ourselves.

By Steve Dow

Killing Time

Despite the health risks associated with smoking, the act has played a shifting emblematic role across cultural history.

Review

By Zara Sigglekow

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Naomi Eller

Naomi Eller is a multidisciplinary artist with a predilection for the ceramic medium. In it, she has not only found a pliable and responsive material for sculpting forms, but a language to form axioms.

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Lucky?

Top 5 Exhibitions

The Commercial

Soliloquy Workshop

Mitch Cairns

State Library of Queensland (SLQ)

Home: a suburban obsession

Monash Gallery of Art (MGA)

As Still as Life

Robyn Stacey

Artereal

Flare Up

Evan Pank

Recent Articles

Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.

Preview

By Rebecca Gallo

Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.

Preview

By Anna Dunnill

Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft

For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.

Interview

By Anna Dunnill

Art+

Peter Daverington: Inserting the deep past into the present

On 22 October, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a large painting by Australian artist Peter Daverington in the Great Hall of Canberra’s Parliament House. The work was commissioned to commemorate those who have survived institutional child abuse in Australia. Steve Dow spoke to Daverington about the challenges of the commission, the role of art in making sure we don’t forget the past, his success as a New York based mural painter, and his ongoing rebellious nature.

By Steve Dow

Layer by layer: The art of 3D printing

Artists have always responded to new developments in technology, from egg tempera to Photoshop. Tai Mitsuji spoke to Louis Pratt, Grace Blake, Kate Dunn, and Michael Eden; four artists who are making the most of innovations in 3D printing, as a means rather than an end.

By Tai Mitsuji

Yvette Coppersmith: What I learnt about winning the Archibald

For many Sydney-siders the Archibald Prize is the one exhibition they visit every year. For many painters, nationwide, it’s the one prize worth winning. Varia Karipoff spoke to 2018 winner Yvette Coppersmith about the highs and lows of taking out the Archibald Prize.

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Naomi Eller

Studio

By Varia Karipoff

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio talks about Frida Kahlo’s photos

Interview

By Steve Dow

Podcast: Gunybi Ganambarr on creating, building and etching

Feature

By Tiarney Miekus

Robyn Sweaney: Backwards looking forwards

Preview

By Barnaby Smith

James Geurts works between landscape and perception

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Extra

Review

By Tracey Clement

Inherited Histories

Feature

By Andy Butler

In These Hands: Mara nyangangka

Preview

By Sheridan Coleman

A Guide to Guides on Collecting Contemporary Art

artplus

By Zara Sigglekow

Clare Milledge: Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock

Preview

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

Dark Matter

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)

By Steve Dow

Killing Time

Review

By Zara Sigglekow

Studio

Naomi Eller

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Lucky?

Top 5 Exhibitions

The Commercial

Soliloquy Workshop

Mitch Cairns

State Library of Queensland (SLQ)

Home: a suburban obsession

Monash Gallery of Art (MGA)

As Still as Life

Robyn Stacey

Artereal

Flare Up

Evan Pank

Recent Articles

Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Preview

By Rebecca Gallo

Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

Preview

By Anna Dunnill

Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft

Interview

By Anna Dunnill

Art+

Peter Daverington: Inserting the deep past into the present

By Steve Dow

Layer by layer: The art of 3D printing

By Tai Mitsuji

Yvette Coppersmith: What I learnt about winning the Archibald

By Varia Karipoff

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