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 Melbourne-based artist describes being transfixed by the POV shot of headlights on a two-lane road which opens David Lynch’s 1997 film, Lost Highway.
Timing is everything. Viewed in April Fiona Hall’s solo show, Gateless Gate, reads like a meditation on the senselessness of war: the perfect antidote to the beer-soaked, jingoistic, flag-waving frenzy that often seems to accompany the more sombre rituals of ANZAC day.
“I am interested in the relationship between cinema and painting,” the Sydney-based artist explains, specifically, “the affinity the two mediums share, the influence painting has had on the moving image, and, in return, the influence the moving image has had on painting.”
Making and embellishing textiles used to play an important part in ordinary life. These days most people (in wealthy nations at least) buy their clothing, curtains and cushions readymade.
In Familiar Stranger, Australian and international artists grapple with the at times unsettling act of coming home.
Brenda May started in 1985 with Access Contemporary Art Gallery. Now she is launching her third gallery, May Space.
London-based Aussie art-star Shaun Gladwell was invited to spend time in the Northern Territory in conjunction with the group show Apologies to Roadkill.
Helen Britton is known for creating bright jewels that are just as likely to include recycled plastics as glittering precious gems.
For the artist Lisa Roet, looking at apes is like looking in the mirror. For her the reflection we see when we gaze at our simian cousins is both murky and revealing; it tells us something about our inner selves and our broader culture.
Sugar Spin at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, delivers the colour, celebration and sweetness befitting a 10th birthday party.
Many of Amor’s shadowy images have a cinematic quality. They read like film stills, fragments of a greater drama.
It’s an art historical convention that there is a difference between nudes and naked bodies. Nudes (both male and female) are meant to be pure idealised form, devoid of salacious overtones.
