Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.
How do you choose who to paint, and why? Three Archibald Prize finalists discuss the people behind their 2020 portraits.
Artist and soccer fan Khaled Sabsabi captures transcendence in unexpected places.
The artists in Monster Theatres are “manifesting the monsters” of this cultural moment.
“Extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting” works produced through The Torch program reveal artists connecting with culture, identity and Country.
What does COVID-19 mean for both the present and future of Australia’s major galleries?
While physical galleries all around Australia may be closed for months, the necessity of invention may yet enrich art lovers worldwide with online innovation.
“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang are redefining VR in contemporary art.
Joseph Banks is painted in the late afternoon under moody dark clouds in a landscape better suited to board shorts and thongs.
“Art is more enjoyable if you look at it hard and long, than if you look at it idly and in passing.”
Given the growing spectre of man-made global warming, artist Amrita Hepi says it is important to consider First Nations knowledge of land and sea.
Responding to the history and culture of her birthplace, Taloi Havini’s evocative work draws attention to environmental and social change.
