Tiarney Miekus is an editor at Art Guide Australia and a Melbourne-based writer whose work has also appeared in un Magazine, The Australian, Meanjin (Online), RealTime, Overland and The Lifted Brow (Online). She is the producer of the Art Guide Australia podcast.
For ceramicist Glenn Barkley, the lagoon is “a swampy place where ideas come from”.
As galleries and museums worldwide begin placing exhibitions, artworks and art experiences online, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN is likewise heading into the digital realm.
In light of COVID-19 shutdowns arts bodies around Australia have announced millions in new funding, programs and resources for artists, arts organisations and arts practitioners.
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives and communities from Australia and across the globe.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
“In some ways I don’t think of my life and art as separate things, I think it’s one in the same thing,” says artist Louise Weaver when speaking of her creative pursuits.
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
The compassionate, connective relationship one can potentially have with one’s self, as well as with others, is the fertile grounding of Kate Mitchell’s large-scale installation All Auras Touch.
An exhibition titled Animal Nation may, on the surface, presuppose a simply figurative display of animal life.
Despite being a multidisciplinary artist, Griggs is primarily known for his vivid and chaotic portraits.
Milan Milojevic threads wild landscapes with the richness of altered fauna, flora and mythological creatures. His newest exhibition converges on one visual motif: the waterfall.
For David Hurlston curating is both a conceptual and physical process: he’s concerned with how viewers move through gallery spaces and how they read artworks. “It’s just about making a really tangible and interesting and educative experience, and I think that happens in the real world, in the real space,” he says.
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