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 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.
In the absence of words, visual correspondence facilitated an exchange between artists Julian Martin and Matlock Griffiths.
In a tiny outbuilding at the artist’s Melbourne home, Brooks’s studio is briskly cold on a midwinter’s day, yet the colours and materials piled inside are warmly engaging.
