Tracey Clement is an artist and freelance writer. She has a PhD in contemporary art, as well as a diploma in jewellery design, an undergraduate degree in art history-theory and a master’s degree in sculpture.
The paintings in New Zealander Judy Millar’s solo show, My Body Pressed, have a particularly visceral quality.
George Tjungurrayi’s brightly coloured paintings seem to hover in the darkened space at Carriageworks.
“Painting is something that I am endlessly challenged and fascinated by. And I struggle with it,” Maestri says.
Infused with urban life, Tanya Goel’s works reference both weaving and the screen, mathematics and memory.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” or so goes the oft-quoted first line of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between. But when it comes to video art, the past is more like a galaxy far, far away. This is made abundantly clear in Cinemania, a survey show spanning three decades of video and photography by New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.
The New Alchemists are “Some of the most engaging artists working internationally in the cutting-edge fields of art and science today”
Caz Haswell presented cunning facsimiles of ordinary things; she rendered the familiar strange and invoked the eerie and the uncanny.
The six medieval French tapestries known collectively as The Lady and the Unicorn cycle are a conundrum.
During his lifetime Alun Leach-Jones influenced many younger artists and had more than 82 solos shows. In May 2018 Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne will hold a memorial exhibition of the new paintings the artist was working on when he died.
Art’s gatekeepers have given colour a bad rap. Katharina Grosse seeks to rehabilitate the audience from the effects of chromophobia.
The full list of artists who will participate in the 21st Biennale of Sydney has been announced.
Deb Mansfield’s artworks are little puzzles to be solved. In this she is not alone. Most art, or at least good art, makes viewers into cryptographers.
