Wiradjuri artist S.J Norman recently won the 67th Blake Prize, which recognises achievement in spiritual art. Norman’s winning photograph documents the 147 incisions made on the artist’s back during a 2019 performance, which marks the 147 Aboriginal people who died in police custody in the preceding decade. Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money sat down with Norman to discuss the significance of these images.
Since the 70s, Helen Fuller has worked across painting, installation and sculpture. Her latest show at Samstag Museum of Art explores her hand-built forms, and she speaks about this exhibition as well as childhood exploring, archaeological digs and the diverse textures found in nature.
For three decades Marco Fusinato has worked across his noise guitar performances, installations, and appropriated musical scores. Interrogating moments of extremity, whether political or musical, Fusinato is now representing Australia in the 2022 Venice Biennale — which you can stream live. Here, he talks about punk, noise and music, and moments of radicalism.
After being postponed for almost two years, Frances Barrett’s Meatus is now opening at ACCA. Our 2020 interview is essential reading ahead of the exhibition and performances.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
A political protestor and art photographer in the 1970s, Julie Rrap talks about being a woman today and tells us about her new work rethinking historical and feminist representations of the female body, showing at ARC ONE Gallery.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza and Warraba Weatherall talk about the process behind This language that is every stone at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, as well as curating identity in the 21st century, and the relationship between art and language.
Intimate, sexualised, playful and primordial: for three decades Borland has used photography as her medium, from photographing Queen Elizabeth to creating her own visual language. Showing at Melbourne Art Fair, Borland tells us where she’s at with life and art.
After winning the 2021 Sulman Prize and the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, Georgia Spain’s vividly gestural paintings are highly lauded. The artist, who only had her first solo show three years ago, talks about why she’s compelled to capture human interaction, how she defines success, and painting pleasure and conflict.
Curator Lee Kinsella discusses mining the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art for works that embody a kind of transformative material alchemy.
In this interview, while preparing for her retrospective show Finders Keepers at Mundaring Arts Centre, the West Australian artist Nalda Searles talks about her four-decade long textiles-based practice, adapting to the changes life throws in your way, channelling her dark humour, and committing to creativity.
