Varia Karipoff is the former print editor at Art Guide Australia and was formerly the art and culture editor at L’Officiel Australia. She holds a BA in international studies, is fluent in Russian and naturally, is fond of poetry.
“It’s pretty rudimentary,” Bryan Spier says of his garage studio. “I never shut that door, it feels too claustrophobic. I just rug up [in winter], I wear like 20 jumpers,” he half jokes.
In a liminal space between a stairwell and a wall – for all intents and purposes a corridor – we find Warren O’Brien at work. He is wearing lime-green tradesman earmuffs and a long dustcoat; his clothes, right down to his New Balance sneakers, are speckled with paint.
“My first exhibition about Black Mountain College was The Hereafter at Galerie pompom in 2017; the day after the show opened I found out that I had the job in Mildura. I was going to this remote place to teach – there was a weird synergy.” – Kylie Banyard
“There’s a reason there’s a resurgence in a kind of contemporary gothic because we haven’t addressed a lot of the ideas around landscape, and the identity of the culture in which we live in. We do live in cultural denial at times.” – Mark Shorter
“I wanted to sort of feel limitless and not be governed by any idea of scale – to make things I wasn’t sure how to transport. I didn’t want to think about it, I just wanted to go for it. And you get to a point with a certain scale that you just become comfortable and it’s not as exciting. Maybe also, I was past that point. I needed to feel almost threatened.” – Brendan Huntley
The latest exhibition at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, combines key moments in Patricia Piccinini’s oeuvre, shown among the all-consuming and devastating emotions in Joy Hester’s works on paper.
Naomi Eller is a multidisciplinary artist with a predilection for the ceramic medium. In it, she has not only found a pliable and responsive material for sculpting forms, but a language to form axioms.
A low-grade anxiety simmered under the surface in The Fraud Complex, perhaps a pre-emptive emotion, as Next Wave was dealt a blow with the loss of its Australia Council funding.
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