Interview
Radiant Pavilion fills Melbourne with jewellery
Anna Dunnill sat down with festival co-directors Claire McArdle and Chloë Powell to talk about Radiant Pavilion.
By Anna Dunnill
Interview
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
The annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair packs a lot in to just three days in July. Sharne Wolff spoke to Hetti Perkins about her role in the Fair and the importance of presenting Indigenous art on the world stage.
By Sharne Wolff
Interview, News
Melbourne Art Fair is Back in 2018
Every two years, since 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair has been a major event on the Australian arts calendar. But in 2016 the Fair was unceremoniously cancelled just six months before it was due to open. Now the Melbourne Art Fair is back with a new venue, new director and new vision for the future.
By Tracey Clement
Interview
William Robinson talks about living in the Eternal Present
Louise Martin-Chew spoke to artist William Robinson about his return to still life painting, his love of music, and his two current solo shows.
By Louise Martin-Chew
Interview
Claudia Nicholson
After more than two decades of frenzied discourse around the concept of identity, Claudia Nicholson broaches the complexities with humour, resolve (there was the time she ate a raw lamb’s heart to a panpipe rendition of ‘Unchained Melody’) and freshness.
By Varia Karipoff
Interview
James Brett and The Museum of Everything
James Brett, founder of The Museum of Everything, discusses the line between insider and outsider art.
By Steve Dow
Interview
Melissa Loughnan talks about her new book Australiana to Zeitgeist
Since Melissa Loughnan’s Melbourne gallery Utopian Slumps closed in 2014, people have been waiting with baited breath to see what the Melbourne gallerist and art historian would do next. The wait is over with the release of her new book Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Australian Contemporary Art.
By Amelia Winata
Interview
New film reveals Whiteley’s own words
The sensationalist stories surrounding Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) have long-captured Australia’s attention.
By Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Julie Rrap responds to Max Dupain’s Sunbaker
Steve Dow spoke to Julie Rrap as she was preparing for the show, Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker.
By Steve Dow
Interview
Fourteen ARIs join forces in All Conference
In a show of collective solidarity, 14 artist-led and cross-disciplinary organisations around Australia have gotten together to form All Conference, a platform that aims to support and articulate the value of artist-run and experimental organisations.
By Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Callum Morton discusses art prizes and millennials
The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize had its genesis in the Redlands highschool gym and has emerged as a heavyweight, with a month-long exhibition held each year at the National Art School in Sydney.