Interview
Curator Lee Kinsella talks about the weight and grit of women’s art
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
Interview
Nalda Searles on circumnavigating the art/craft divide through meandering creativity
In this interview, while preparing for her retrospective show Finders Keepers at Mundaring Arts Centre, the West Australian artist Nalda Searles talks about her four-decade long textiles-based practice, adapting to the changes life throws in your way, channelling her dark humour, and committing to creativity.
Sheridan Hart
Interview
Interview: Mikala Dwyer on mysticism, daydreaming and ‘not-knowing’
Mikala Dwyer connects a range influences like the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory and sexuality. With a new exhibition on avian life at Roslyn Oxley9, Dwyer talks about reading tarots, her process of ‘not-knowing’, and explains just how personal her art is.
Tiarney Miekus
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Dean Cross tackles the centre/periphery hierarchy
Dean Cross examines his past, present and future ambitions through the lens of a Greek myth in his solo show Icarus, my Son at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. He spoke to Briony Downs about leaving his regional home for the big city and the responsibility of being a culture-maker.
Briony Downes
Interview
Yhonnie Scarce on telling multi-layered stories through glass
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce talks about the power of visual narratives, how her work reveals hidden truths, and her latest show Missile Park now on at the Institute of Modern Art.
Briony Downes
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Maree Clarke on connecting with culture and history
From glass eel traps to possum skin cloaks, Maree Clarke uses art to tell stories as well as reclaim and extend cultural practices. Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories is the first major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria by a living artist with ancestral ties to the land on which the gallery stands.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Linda Brescia on needing A Room of One’s Own
Linda Brescia chats about her C3West initiative Skirts, deciding in the shower to become a feminist artist, dressing-up as both a nude and a nun, and the desire to make ordinary women visible.
Tracey Clement
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eX de Medici on hybrid forms and a fascination with moths
Before she became one of Australia’s most respected artists, eX de Medici was both a punk and a tattooist. Now, the Canberra-based artist’s watercolour paintings combine precise detail with bold social critique.
Tracey Clement
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Prue Venables on having itchy fingers and creative hands
In 2019 the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects as part of their Living Treasures series. The exhibition is still touring the nation and has recently arrived at Design Tasmania.
Sheridan Hart
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Ruth Burgess use printmaking to record The Music of the Planets
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
Briony Downes
Interview
Matthew Harris on camp, class and culture
From cute to uncanny, absurd to naughty, Matthew Harris talks about camp aesthetics, growing up in a country town, and his latest show The Simple Life at Galerie pompom.
Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Interview: Janet Laurence on creating art during environmental crisis
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.