Tiarney Miekus

Editor

Contributor Tiarney Miekus is an editor at Art Guide Australia and a Melbourne-based writer whose work has also appeared in The Age, The Australian, un Magazine, Meanjin, RealTime, Overland and The Lifted Brow (Online). She is the producer of the Art Guide Australia podcast.

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The envy of the art world

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Arts Project Australia continues to support and advocate for artists with an intellectual disability—while making the art world rethink its most basic assumptions.

Interview

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.

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Interview: Tracey Moffatt operates in the world of art

In a rare interview, alongside her showing in the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Tracey Moffatt talks about her penchant for the staged and surreal, going beyond identity, growing up in Brisbane and moving to New York in her thirties, and the importance of imagination.

Interview

“I was ready to die for art”: Marina Abramović talks performance, endurance and trust

In our special interview with the one-and-only Marina Abramović, ahead of her curatorial project at Adelaide Festival, she talks on almost 60 years of performance art, wanting a one-way ticket into space, and answers a question about her most famous performance that no-one has asked before.

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Hayley Millar Baker on purposefully eluding any particular era in photography

From art crushes to parenting to why she largely uses black-and-white images, we caught up with Gunditjmara artist Hayley Millar Baker to ask 20 quick questions about her 2022 survey show at Flinders University Museum of Art, and how her images speak to Aboriginal experiences and memory.

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Mortality and absurdity drives Brent Harris’s work

Meaning lies somewhere between humour, absurdity, and mortality in Brent Harris’s paintings and prints. With a recent survey in New Zealand, Harris is now exhibiting with an Australian showing of 40 years of work, titled Surrender & Catch, currently at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Interview

Mike Parr on catharsis and confrontation

Since the 1960s Mike Parr has been defining performance art. Known for his performances of extremis, from hacking off a fake arm to burying himself underneath a Tasmanian road for three days. With a new, three-part exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Parr talks about catharsis, the institutionalisation of performance art, and the motivations behind what he does.

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Possibility abounds in Isadora Vaughan’s warehouse studio

Within her warehouse studio in the industrial area of Coburg North, Melbourne, with her dog Merri in tow, Isadora Vaughan creates sculptural installations that sustain a visceral tension between incongruent materials and forms. Her work is showing at STATION Gallery Melbourne.

Interview

Brendan Huntley and the art of “making do”

With vivid new paintings and sculptures at Tolarno Galleries, Brendan Huntley talks about his use of colour, capturing energy, and the nature of creating.

Interview

Talking with Sancintya Mohini Simpson on history and art

Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa—and her art, showing at Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, is entwined with this history.

Interview

Vicki Couzens: “Art is a part of life”

For almost 40 years, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara woman Vicki Couzens has worked in the Aboriginal community, profoundly changing the cultural landscape around her. She talks about making “creative cultural expression” rather than “art”, alongside her new collaboration at Buxton Contemporary.

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Artists on grief, mourning and loss

Art is often cited as one of the few places left in Western culture to have shared reflections on death and mourning—and this is being given form by 11 contemporary artists in One foot on the ground, one foot in the water at Pinnacles Gallery.

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Tiarney Miekus

Editor

Tiarney Miekus's Articles

The envy of the art world

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Interview: Tracey Moffatt operates in the world of art

“I was ready to die for art”: Marina Abramović talks performance, endurance and trust

Hayley Millar Baker on purposefully eluding any particular era in photography

Mortality and absurdity drives Brent Harris’s work

Mike Parr on catharsis and confrontation

Possibility abounds in Isadora Vaughan’s warehouse studio

Brendan Huntley and the art of “making do”

Talking with Sancintya Mohini Simpson on history and art

Vicki Couzens: “Art is a part of life”

Artists on grief, mourning and loss

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