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.
“From cave paintings to now, people have always wanted to make pictures of people.”
Sydney-based artist Kuba Dorabialski has won the annual John Fries Award for early-career artists from Australia and New Zealand with his video work, Invocation Trilogy #1: Floor Dance of Lenin’s Resurrection 2017.
Along the edges of the artwork a slight glimpse reveals the balsa wood and cardboard scaffolding that holds up Blasco’s glossy photographic metropolis.
The Wave Hill walk-off birthed a movement, a ballad and a National Heritage listing, but its legacy remains bittersweet.
Throughout August the SALA Festival will present the work of 6282 artists across 560 venues in Adelaide and the surrounding regions.
Congratulations to Mitch Cairns who has taken out the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture with his painting of partner, and fellow artist, Agatha Gothe-Snape.
The group exhibition, Greater Together, presents eight projects that make the most of synergistic energy.
Every two years, since 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair has been a major event on the Australian arts calendar. But in 2016 the Fair was unceremoniously cancelled just six months before it was due to open. Now the Melbourne Art Fair is back with a new venue, new director and new vision for the future.
The Dark Matters seems less like a meditation on the dark things that actually do matter (although some artists do delve into this territory) and more like an exercise in good interior decoration. It is visually very harmonious.
During a career spanning three decades Hearman has become known for painting weird, moody vignettes rendered in deep chiaroscuro against amorphous backgrounds.
The 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial focuses on the resistance and strength of Indigenous people in the throes of Empire.
Vicki Varvaressos had been painting for more than two decades when she first started producing abstract works. “I remember when I first did it,” she says, “it was probably quite shocking!”
