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.
“Art is this amazing subject,” says Robert Owen. “It comes from different people and it contributes to cultural identity in a way that can question ourselves…”
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades? Wolseley’s work is currently showing in Regenesis – Slow Water – Deep Earth at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
Working from regional Victoria, Stavrianos is known for her densely layered landscape paintings and use of line in painting, creating works that evoke different environments in ways that are beautiful, psychological and mysterious.
Georgia Banks has eligible contestants lining up…for a chance to win exclusive control over the artist’s funeral and remains.
From cute to uncanny, absurd to naughty, Matthew Harris talks about camp aesthetics, growing up in a country town, and his latest show The Simple Life at Galerie pompom.
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
Famous for his slow-motion videos of skateboards, motorbikes, surf boards and BMXs, Shaun Gladwell’s newest art delves into something we’re all familiar with: domesticity and personal exercise.
“Our country and culture has been there all the time, it is our strength, our dream, and our stories. No one can take that away from us. So, we’ve got to tell that story and share it.” – Jimmy Frank, Tennant Creek Brio
For three decades Janet Laurence has been lauded for her simultaneously conceptual but also emotive approach to nature. In our interview she talks about being a female artist dealing with nature, and what it means to create ecological art in a time of great environmental threat.
What are the links between feminism, contemporary art and disability? These questions, and more, are explored in the second episode of our newest podcast series FEM-aFFINITY, featuring a very honest and intimate conversation with photographer Janelle Low.
