Clare Belfrage: Rhythms of Necessity
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.
Facing the law
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.
By Adam Bushby
Can design decolonise cities?
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).
By Timmah Ball
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia
Welcome to Country is a travel guide with a difference.
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21st Biennale of Sydney: Archives 1973 – 1986
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.
By Steve Dow
New Horizons
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.
By Briony Downes
The Artist As Traveller: The Sketchbooks of Eugene von Guérard
Ruth Pullin reexamines Eugene von Guérard’s career through focusing on his sketchbooks.
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The alarming beauty of suffering
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.
By Lachlan Warner
WONDERLAND
WONDERLAND the book coincides with an Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) exhibition of the same name, opening 5 April.
The Expanded Field of Printmaking
Considering the nexus between contemporary art practice and printed matter by focusing on four recent collaborative projects.
By Trent Walter
Burnett House: Still cool in Darwin after 80 years
As the tropical city of Darwin faces a very hot future, local artist Koulla Roussos reflects on the lost architectural heritage of her home town.
By Koulla Roussos
Driftwood: Melbourne – A Chinese Cabinet
In the memoir Driftwood, Eva de Jong-Duldig remembers her remarkable parents. Her father Karl Duldig was a Modernist artist, her mother Slawa Horowitz-Duldig, also an artist, invented and patented the folding umbrella.
