“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.
Elizabeth Willing has transformed the way we think about food and contemporary art. Through sculpture, participatory events, performance, collages and installation, Willing has used materials from marzipan to sherbet to liquorice. Ahead of her upcoming exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, we asked Willing 20 insightful and fun questions.
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.
