Interview
Finding your place in the world
Tai Snaith takes a look at two pairs of artists who have formed intergenerational, informal mentorships, both sharing the love of humour.
Interview
Michael Cook talks about staging an Indigenous invasion of London
Invasion is Michael Cook’s most ambitious photographic series to date. Louise Martin-Chew talked to Cook about his need to extend himself, to ask questions, and show people the many colours between black and white.
Louise Martin-Chew
Interview
Jefa Greenaway on blak design and why it matters
Blak Design Matters has been curated by Jefa Greenaway, a Wailwan and Kamilaroi man, who told Barnaby Smith about the mission of the exhibition and how it came to be.
Barnaby Smith
Interview
Jason Phu talks about The Burrangong Affray in 1860 and other racist riots
The 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art teamed Sydney-born artist Jason Phu with Hong Kong-born artist John Young Zerunge to take a fresh look at the 19th century riots on Australia’s goldfields, where resentment at Chinese miners boiled over.
Steve Dow
Interview
Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM is a leading academic and early childhood educator. She curated the first exhibition at Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art (GoCA), Starting Young.
Louise Martin-Chew
Interview
Linda Tegg discusses the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Melbourne-based artist Linda Tegg has joined forces with Baracco+Wright Architects as creative directors for the Australian pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The project, titled Repair, features thousands of native Australian grasses. Tracey Clement spoke with the artist while she was in Venice preparing for the grand opening.
Tracey Clement
Interview
Edwin Tanner and James Hullick’s use of music and mechanics
Mathematical Expressionist is a survey of work by painter Edwin Tanner (1920-1980). Accompanying 60 works from Tanner’s 30-year oeuvre is The Arbour and the Orrery, by artist and composer James Hullick whose mechanised sound installations engage Tanner’s works in dialogue.
Anna Dunnill
Interview
With Seeing Hands
The exhibition With Seeing Hands features contributions from seven mostly Melbourne-based artists, some of whom identify as having sensory or mobility disabilities.
Steve Dow
Interview
21st Biennale of Sydney: Khaled Sabsabi
Khaled Sabsabi migrated to Australia with his family in the early years of the protracted and bloody Lebanese civil war (1975-1990).
Interview
Kate Scardifield talks about navigating both space and time
As the 2017 Research Fellow at MAAS (the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences), Sydney-based artist Kate Scardifield had access to a treasure trove of antique scientific equipment, charts and archival material.
Sheridan Hart
Interview
Ian Howard makes art not war
Like many artists of his generation, Ian Howard was politicised during the Vietnam War. But to call his art anti-war is too simplistic, as Steve Dow discovers speaking to Howard while the artist prepares his latest exhibition.
Steve Dow
Interview
John R Walker
Rather than represent a single viewpoint of the bush, Walker has developed a way to express a fugue-like structure – a set of interwoven elements to invoke being in place.