Rebecca Gallo is a freelance arts writer and artist based in Sydney. She has contributed to many publications, including Vault Magazine, The Art Life, Sturgeon and Runway. Rebecca recently completed a Master of Art at UNSW Art & Design.
Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.
On Our Country vividly shows how the Spinifex Artists have been reconnecting with waterholes and Dreaming sites that their families were forced to leave over half a century ago. Painting is one of many ways that their stories are retold and recorded.
Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change.
Giselle Stanborough’s Cinopticon was relevant well before the current pandemic crisis. But as our personal and professional lives are moving online rapidly and more comprehensively than ever, Stanborough’s research takes on a kind of chilling urgency.
Louise Gresswell gives us an insight into the very process of painting itself.
WATERLICHT, an immersive installation by Dutch art and design firm Studio Roosegaarde, will make its Southern Hemisphere debut at Fremantle Biennale this November.
In The Work, the focus is on the labouring body. How do bodies act and react when they are put to work? What might this reveal about physical strength and limitations, power dynamics and social relations?
The use of his own body may be a convenient framework for Christian Thompson, but it also implies an emotional and personal investment that lends his work power and immediacy.
As urbanised humans are increasingly distanced from the means of food production, the choice of what and how we eat becomes a political act.
Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.
Drawing traditionally takes the form of charcoal on canvas or graphite on paper, but arguably one can draw with anything that makes a mark: sand, light, ink, paint. The artists in Playback explore the potential of what drawing can be.
Wood smoke floats gently over the harbour from a far corner of Cockatoo Island. Under an open-sided shelter, fire is contained in steel drums.
