Andy Butler, Lisa Hilli and James Nguyen each engage the power dynamics that shape public culture. Their works are informed by personal histories of migration from Southeast Asia, and they have a mutual crossover of experience—being one generation away from the village, they now navigate spaces founded on exclusion and prestige. They speak to this in their incredibly insightful three-way conversation.
Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander artist. Her great-great-grandparents were taken from Vanuatu as children during the Pacific slave trade and made to work in Australia. Togo-Brisby explores this dark history, talking through its ramifications—and how it informs her practice, with works showing at Fremantle Arts Centre.
Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins creates evocative portraits and landscape paintings exploring being a First Nations person in contemporary Australia. Her latest work Stockwoman is gracing the walls of Carriageworks for Sydney Festival, capturing her great-grandmother Hetty Perkins.
In blazes of colours, images and fonts, Paul Yore’s installations and textiles are like nothing else. We asked Yore 20 quick questions on everything from censorship to tragi-comedy to Dolly Parton.
One afternoon, writer and artist Diego Ramirez met with Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell for a drink and a parma—and to chat about their joint exhibition Speech Patterns at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
“Protesters’ willingness to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs is always inspiring,” says Palawa artist Jemima Wyman on creating art centering resistance movements. Ahead of her showing in Air at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, we talk about her first protest and what compels her to acts of resistance.
“What I represent in my work really reflects my life, because my work really reflects what I am personally going through,” says TextaQueen. Known for their texta creations, ahead of TextaQueen’s show at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art they talk about skewering Bollywood archetypes via fictional film posters, starring queer and trans South Asian people.
Known for his works combining technology and ochre, Robert Andrew talks candidly about the power dynamics and frustrations with language, discovering his Aboriginal heritage, and becoming an artist later in life. Revisit our interview with Andrew before the closing of his major solo at Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).
“I’m drawn to the unassuming ordinariness of the everyday.” With a solo show at Linden New Art, Honor Freeman creates exquisite, tactile ceramic objects, often crafting domestic items like bars of soap and buckets. We asked her 20 quick questions—everything from creating and mourning, to her favourite colour to work with.
Working between Sydney and Paris, artist Mel O’Callaghan has a major new solo at Sydney’s Carriageworks. In our interview she talks about deep sea exploration, theories on the beginning of life, ancient festivals in India, and a prized mineral collection.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul Abdullah are brothers and artists. With practices distinctly their own, we asked the brothers 20 questions about their current show with Tracey Moffatt, but also about their art crushes, their most humourous memory of each other, seminal art experiences, and the link between identity and art.
With a current exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery and upcoming performances at the Sydney Opera House, artist Lauren Brincat talks to writer and curator Anador Walsh about curtains, going backstage, David Bowie, and the collaboration process.
