Louise Martin-Chew is a freelance writer and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland (Creative Writing) where she is working on artist biography. Her most recent book is Linde Ivimey, published by UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2012.
Many art historians argue that the life of the artist should be viewed independently of the art.
Beyond Reason is an embrace of colour, shape and exuberant imaginings. The full-throttle aesthetic of these paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos, fashion, and installations is only just contained by the space in the QUT Art Museum.
The art that emerges here has little to do with wearability, instead it has generated work that may conceal the body as much as reveal it.
Artists in digital media, photography, painting, artist books, poetic films, and textiles come together under this exhibition banner to debate a relationship between certainty and uncertainty, knowledge and incomprehension.
Art Guide Australia’s Louise Martin-Chew attended the 2018 NAVA Future/Forward forum in Canberra. She reports on efforts to get art back on the political agenda.
Invasion is Michael Cook’s most ambitious photographic series to date. Louise Martin-Chew talked to Cook about his need to extend himself, to ask questions, and show people the many colours between black and white.
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM is a leading academic and early childhood educator. She curated the first exhibition at Brisbane’s new Gallery of Children’s Art (GoCA), Starting Young.
Albert began as a trainee at the Queensland Art Gallery 17 years ago. His success was propelled by membership of proppaNOW – a Brisbane-based art collective. And he is eager to reciprocate the favour.
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals is not an exhibition that you can take in on opening night.
Present, curated by writer/curator Kate Britton (who is also the director of Art Month Sydney), brings together a group of unrepresented artists: Kalanjay Dhir, Caroline Garcia, Get to Work, Samuel Hodge, Claudia Nicholson, and Athena Thebus.
Tupou is known for his interest in pattern and repetition and vibrant images, originally inspired by his explorations of family, culture and identity in the Pacific.
Detail is important in a visual imagination, but it also punctuates an individual’s memory. This exhibition draws together artworks made since 2002 by Noel McKenna that are also highly personal and idiosyncratic maps.
