In the first of a new series of feature articles, we’ve brought together artists and writers who share an interest (besides art). Artist Jon Cattapan sat down with writer Tracey Clement to discuss JG Ballard’s novel The Drowned World and the importance of bearing witness.
It is the meditative, vulnerable and unforced qualities (and not necessarily Japan) that define Koji Ryui’s abstract sculptural works.
Like the fabled gingerbread house, Pip & Pop’s dream-bright saccharine creations are darker than they first appear.
In Stephen Dupont’s The White Sheet Series it is the curious bystanders standing adrift that captivate.
With a keen eye on Darwinian theory, Mona’s David Walsh gathers four scientist-philosophers turned curators to ruminate on art’s beginnings.
Ariel Hassan’s works are a vortex that spins together his philosophical, literary and political concerns, destroying, rearranging and reconfiguring them.
In a tiny outbuilding at the artist’s Melbourne home, Brooks’s studio is briskly cold on a midwinter’s day, yet the colours and materials piled inside are warmly engaging.
Gerard Byrne joins a group exhibition at Monash University Musuem of Art that assesses museums as an instrument to capture and preserve objects.
Justine Varga’s photographs capture the briefest moments. In Memoire she seizes, stretches and accumulates that instant.
A difficult education has not deterred Tony Albert from a pluralistic approach to making art – at once forgiving and subversive.
Opportunity beckons at the Murray Art Museum Albury for local Jo Davenport’s expressive, layered and shifting paintings.
In a world of porous borders, artist Ivan Sikic traverses contexts and countries drawing the global gaze to social justice issues.
