Caitlin Aloisio Shearer is an artist based in Melbourne with a history of creative pursuits combining painting, textiles, poetry and dressmaking. Caitlin contributes her illustrations and writing to Art Guide on an ongoing basis.
Caitlin is a part of the Art Guide Australia team, working across print production and social media. She also manages the Art Guide Bookstore and edits its associated Book Review series.
In times of scarcity and the Anthropocene, our homes, dwellings and emergency shelters take on a charged, emotive, and fundamental meaning—as Kasia Töns’s textile creations, now at Ararat Gallery TAMA, show us.
The largest exhibition of Lee Miller’s work shown in Australia in over 30 years, including that shot of her in Hitler’s bathtub, is currently at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
What happens, asks artist Caitlin Shearer, when the starving artist trope becomes all too real, alienating artists from their practice, health and happiness?
