Interview
Frances Barrett on connecting through art and taking postponement day by day
Meatus is one of the many exhibitions that has been postponed due to restrictions on social gathering.
Interview
Brook Andrew on biennales, the art world and new ways of seeing
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives and communities from Australia and across the globe.
Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Phaptawan Suwannakudt challenges patriarchy by painting in Thai temples and beyond
Phaptawan Suwannakudt brings Thailand’s Wat Pho temple to Australia through her multi-sensory installation Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
Michaela Bear
Interview
Louise Weaver on nature, feminism and crocheting animal forms
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Grayson Perry talks about Them & Us
Grayson Perry takes to the stage in a one-person show, Them & Us, covering everything from politics and fashion to art and childhood toys. Briony Downes spoke to Perry ahead of his upcoming appearances in Sydney and Melbourne.
Briony Downes
Interview
NGA curator Jaklyn Babington on #askacurator and watching Francesco melt
Urs Fischer’s four-metre red wax sculpture, Francesco, 2017, is designed to be lit and slowly melted like a candle. Recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), the sculpture’s decomposition is being documented on social media—and attracting lively discussion.
Briony Downes
Interview
Jumaadi on doing the work to translate poetry and displacement into art
Jumaadi’s exhibition My love is an Island Far Away at Mosman Art Gallery has been years in the making.
Jane O'Sullivan
Interview
Kent Morris on looking through a First Nations lens
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Briony Downes
Interview
Tricky Walsh explores paths not taken in Flatland
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
Barnaby Smith
Interview
Lisa Fehily on making female artists household names
Embracing the current push led by museums, galleries and public collections to highlight the work of women artists, Lisa Fehily has opened Finkelstein Gallery, an all-female commercial art space in Melbourne.
Briony Downes
Interview
Richard Bell on gate-crashing the Venice Biennale
In his Venice work, We Don’t Really Need This / EMBASSY, Bell has wrapped a replica of the Australian Pavilion in chains (an institutional critique through an architectural intervention), sited it on a barge, and sailed it throughout the Venetian lagoon.
Louise Martin-Chew
Interview
Susan Cohn on the personal and political power of jewellery
With a practice spanning four decades, Melbourne-based jeweller Susan Cohn makes both highly wearable and deeply political work.