This Wild Song is a long-term project by artist and curator Ilona Nelson. Galvanised by recent statistics around gender inequality in the arts, Nelson has made it her mission to champion and celebrate Australian female artists through photographic portraiture.
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.
Author Lou Klepac sums up Tim Storrier’s impressive career in the context of two other well known Australian artists: John Olsen and Brett Whiteley.
Laura Couttie sits down with members of three of Melbourne’s longest running ARIs to discuss the challenges ARIs are facing today, the ways in which they are adapting and evolving, and to envisage how ARIs can function in the future.
Every year the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival honours a South Australian artist with a monograph on their work. This year the spotlight shines on glass artist Clare Belfrage.
Lawyer and art historian Adam Bushby discusses the challenges an artist faces when painting judges and lawyers; a niche in the portraiture genre subject to multiple constraints.
Ahead of NAIDOC week, Indigenous writer and urban planner Timmah Ball reflects on the rise of First Nations inflected design elements in our cities. She questions whether or not they are actually having the desired decolonial effect and, after a trip to New Zealand, compares practices in Naarm (Melbourne) and Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
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The 21st Biennale of Sydney includes an impressive display of archives from previous incarnations, 1973-1986. As Steve Dow found, these records highlight both struggles for equality and landmark moments of inclusion.
What is the pull of the small town and why do artists choose to live and work in regional locations? Briony Downes talks to three artists from around Australia to find out the unique challenges and rewards linked to living outside the city.
Ruth Pullin reexamines Eugene von Guérard’s career through focusing on his sketchbooks.
As an artist and Buddhist Lachlan Warner outlines below, some artists (himself included) have sought a deeper understanding of the Buddhist notion of suffering through making.
Brook Andrew has announced the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives who will participate in the next BOS, many of whom are First Nations artists.
“These aesthetic choices are my history. My culture is pop culture. My background is TV, not religion or spirituality. I can only speak of my own life: I’m trying to make sense of it all, like everyone.” —Darren Sylvester
God this is tedious, my wife observed, and I had to agree – what is with Australia’s obsession with art? Everywhere you look in the media it’s art, art, art.
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