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.
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.
The Island delves into Ah Kee’s hard-hitting critiques of Australia.
They were giants of the New York art scene of the 1980s, stratospherically popular with collectors and the public but snubbed by art institutions during their short lifetimes.
Cementa19 will feature more than 40 artists making, exhibiting and performing in 20 venues across the town of Kandos, NSW, responding to its landscape, history, social, cultural and environmental context.
Critiquing the male gaze throughout art history, Qureshi questions the “absence of a female protagonist and even a point of view in major art collections,” she says. “Historically, there are not enough women’s voices in the art world.”
Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.
“After being butchered, a body can never have its wholeness back,” recites Mombaça from “The Enciphered Letters to Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro”, a tribute to a young Brazilian black trans artist whose work Mombaça finds powerful.
This year, Tony Costa won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Lindy Lee. The Sulman prize was won by McLean Edwards with The first girl that knocked on his door and Sylvia Ken was awarded the Wynne for Seven Sisters.
Channels launches this year on 24 August with a showcase exhibition including artist Reko Rennie from Australia, London-Istanbul pair Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, and Almagul Menlibayeva who is based in Germany and Kazakhstan.
