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.
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.
This year, Tony Costa won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Lindy Lee. The Sulman prize was won by McLean Edwards with The first girl that knocked on his door and Sylvia Ken was awarded the Wynne for Seven Sisters.
Now in its seventh year, Dark Mofo transforms Hobart into a red-hued spectacle of art, food and music.
It is the deftly-crafted dialogue between the works of 15 artists in the exhibition that reveal the connections between the two wildly different, but similarly slippery, concepts of rococo and colonialism.
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