Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are an ideal combination. Two of this country’s leading artists, they’ve now come together for an exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie. In a very generous conversation, they talk about the process of creating a show together, motherhood, and balancing politics and aesthetics.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist who works with photography and moving image. Having won the 66th Blake Prize in 2021, her art focuses on little-known histories. Ahead of exhibiting in the TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Stevens talks about creating from history.
For over 50 years, Peter Tyndall has relentlessly explored what it means to look at art. With an extraordinary retrospective at Buxton Contemporary, Tyndall talks about seriousness and humour, buddhism and postmodernism, his catholic upbringing, and how he looks at a work of art.
From sustainability to non-living participants to waterways, this year’s 23rd Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of nature through 89 participants and over 330 artworks. Ahead of the opening this Saturday, we talked to artistic director José Roca and curatorial member Anna Davis, about the ideas and processes behind the Biennale.
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).
