Andrew Stephens is an independent visual arts writer based in Melbourne. He has worked as a journalist, editor and curator, and has degrees in fine art and art history.
The work of Hilarie Mais presents an uncommon combination: the geometric and abstract married – unexpectedly, successfully – with the atmospheric and the organic.
When contemporary artists were sent on a two-week residency to the seaside town of Portsea, they found both splendour and darkness.
Light Moves has suitably been itinerant since it set off for Darwin from the National Gallery of Australia at the end of 2015. The NGA travelling show is only now reaching its final venue, Wangaratta Art Gallery, recently added thanks to extra funds.
Queensland Art Gallery has reconsidered its curatorial approach to Australian art, combining Indigenous and non-Indigenous art in the same space.
For Fender Katsalidis, personality goes a long way. Here they sketch out the stories behind their made-for-art buildings.
The biggest challenge for artistic director Leigh Carmichael, mastermind behind Hobart’s hugely successful winter festival Dark Mofo is to keep it mysterious and energetic.
Biennale curator, Natalie King, is something of an accomplice to one of Australia’s brightest yet more elusive artists.
Exhibitions range from a William Eggleston portrait show touring from London to local emerging artist Zoë Croggon’s new video/sculpture/collage/installation work that has a strong relationship to more traditional photography.
Leeroy New is making the framework for La Puerta Del Laberinto (The Door to the Labyrinth) at the La Trobe campus and will then transport it to Castlemaine ready to apply his magic with bounty from his tip-trawling.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were Making Modernism.
The show features new commissions as well as recent and historical works by more than 30 local Indigenous artists, celebrating the continuing vitality of First Nations’ communities.
For French artist Philippe Parreno, the show is itself art-in-progress, not merely a vehicle to display discrete works.
