Focal Point: New Realist Painting
“Painting is always fictional,” says Tony Lloyd when discussing the links between photography, painting and realism.
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“Painting is always fictional,” says Tony Lloyd when discussing the links between photography, painting and realism.
In an art world where having a singular artistic refrain or preoccupation is an effective way to get noticed, Adelaide-based artist (and curator, writer) Brigid Noone exalts the merits of inhabiting multiple roles.
Tasmanian artist Nigel Hewitt meditates on the role of fire as a force of destruction, regrowth and change in his exhibition Recinder.
Transparency and other worries presents a new body of work at Brisbane’s Institute for Modern Art in which the artist probes our distanced relationship to mining.
Bold, obsessive and geometric. These are some of the words used to describe Carey Merten’s paintings.
One of the most intriguing highlights of the Next Wave Festival 2018 is actually not, strictly speaking, an artwork by one of the more than 40 creators selected to participate in the showcase of experimental art.
Examining the poetics, textures and vernacular languages of Mexico City are 12 artists who have lived or worked there, participating in the mutual transformation of the city.
Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.
The paintings in New Zealander Judy Millar’s solo show, My Body Pressed, have a particularly visceral quality.
When coordinator Erin Coates talks about the upcoming show at Fremantle Art Centre, Revealed Exhibition: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, she pauses to talk about one work in particular.
Everyday Shrines asks the question: what would it look like if Thai superstitions and rituals were applied to Australia’s national icons?
Impressionism is beloved by Australian audiences, there’s no doubt about it. While firmly grounded in realism and representational art, it is also in many instances, an abandonment of form and line to chase instead, the momentary and the luminous.
