The confident, broad brushstrokes of Belem Lett’s new paintings seem to literally zoom around the picture plane, conveying a sense of speed and momentum as they slide across the works’ sleek aluminium surfaces.
Combining ancient technologies with digital platforms, craft festivals stitch and solder new connections across oceans and online.
What if we had arts news like we have sports news? A new online, artist-led petition is asking for just this, and it’s already gathered thousands of signatures from high-profile artists.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer keeps busy both painting and walking.
Kunmanara Carroll has been honoured as the first Indigenous artist in JamFactory’s ICON series. Sadly, his exhibition Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki had only been open for a short time when he passed away. He is now referred to as Kunmanara Carroll out of respect.
In his Smartphone Snaps photo feature, photographer William Broadhurst focuses on how his camera keeps him connected to his suburban neighbourhood.
With multiple Australian cities now in lockdown, and density limits still at play in other cities, we’ve curated a refined shortlist of online virtual galleries, videos and podcasts you can view, watch and listen to from the comfort of home.
With myriad references to museum curios, colonial landowners, and lashings of highlighter yellow, Joan Ross’s aesthetic is instantly recognisable. The Sydney-based artist, whose exhibition ‘Land of the Broken Hearted’ is currently on display at Bett Gallery Hobart, shares the stories behind five of her recent works.
From drawing with fossil fuel by-products, to creating art from historical botanical books, Caroline Rothwell looks at the increasingly complex relationship between humans and nature.
In her Smartphone Snaps photo essay, Karen Back offers an intimate glimpse of her locked-down life and the local colour that keeps her smiling.
A cast of different ‘Ronnies’ populate Ronnie van Hout’s art, appearing as the wizened face of inanimate objects (a banana, a sausage, a hammer), as well as the adult visage of child-like figures engaged in disconcertingly adult acts. Here, Ronnie tells us about five of his works.
Writer Louise Martin-Chew visited Alair Pambegan at Aurukun in north Queensland, learning first-hand about the artist’s process and connection to Country.
