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Inside Karen Black’s studio: A deeper experience of humanity

“At times, your emotions might be conflicted by the outside world, and what is happening around you, but the heart and the mind are always intimately connected.” Karen Black takes us into her practice and thoughts, and her inspiring Sydney studio.

“At times, your emotions might be conflicted by the outside world, and what is happening around you, but the heart and the mind are always intimately connected.” Karen Black takes us into her practice and thoughts, and her inspiring Sydney studio.

By Karina Dias Pires | Published 20 Jul 2023

Preview

Simone Douglas creates art in slow time

Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.

Simone Douglas’s artworks can sometimes take months. She creates art that speaks to time and place, as shown in her Artereal Gallery exhibition, which captures her slowly disappearing ice sculpture, Ice Boat.

By Sally Gearon | Published 19 Jul 2023

In Pictures

Ingrid Morley’s sculptures echo tragedy and renewal

Ingrid Morley has experienced great loss in the last few years, reckoning with bushfires, a studio fire and the death of a very close friend. Her new show at Orange Regional Gallery responds to this period of upheaval.

Ingrid Morley has experienced great loss in the last few years, reckoning with bushfires, a studio fire and the death of a very close friend. Her new show at Orange Regional Gallery responds to this period of upheaval.

By Art Guide Australia | Published 18 Jul 2023

Feature

Can art resist the carceral state?

Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.

Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.

By Neha Kale | Published 14 Jul 2023

Feature

“Almost indisputable”: Frida Kahlo is her own revolution

The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.

The intimacy, suffering and art between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is infamous. While the personal reverberates in their paintings, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia places their art not only alongside each other, but within a wider Mexican modernist movement.

By Sally Gearon | Published 11 Jul 2023

Interview

“Poetry reveals our world back to us”: Neika Lehman and Jazz Money in conversation

Ahead of Jazz Money’s latest film and poetry work for Between Waves at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Money talks with poet Neika Lehman about how meaning is formed between the meeting of word and image.

Ahead of Jazz Money’s latest film and poetry work for Between Waves at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Money talks with poet Neika Lehman about how meaning is formed between the meeting of word and image.

By Neika Lehman | Published 07 Jul 2023

Feature

40 years of the NATSIAAs: Surprise, delight, politics and community

From Richard Bell wearing an infamous t-shirt stating “White girls can’t hump” to the evolution of positioning First Nations art as contemporary art, Wardandi (Nyoongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) senior curator, Clothilde Bullen, reflects on 40 years of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

From Richard Bell wearing an infamous t-shirt stating “White girls can’t hump” to the evolution of positioning First Nations art as contemporary art, Wardandi (Nyoongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) senior curator, Clothilde Bullen, reflects on 40 years of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

By Clothilde Bullen | Published 04 Jul 2023

Interview

Vicki Couzens: “Art is a part of life”

For almost 40 years, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara woman Vicki Couzens has worked in the Aboriginal community, profoundly changing the cultural landscape around her. She talks about making “creative cultural expression” rather than “art”, alongside her new collaboration at Buxton Contemporary.

For almost 40 years, Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara woman Vicki Couzens has worked in the Aboriginal community, profoundly changing the cultural landscape around her. She talks about making “creative cultural expression” rather than “art”, alongside her new collaboration at Buxton Contemporary.

By Tiarney Miekus | Published 30 Jun 2023

Feature

The 130-year-old drawings of Charlie Flannigan

Charlie Flannigan was an Aboriginal stockman and jockey who was incarcerated at Fannie Bay Gaol, awaiting the gallows, in the late 1800s. Now, his rare and rediscovered drawings are showing at the South Australian Museum.

Charlie Flannigan was an Aboriginal stockman and jockey who was incarcerated at Fannie Bay Gaol, awaiting the gallows, in the late 1800s. Now, his rare and rediscovered drawings are showing at the South Australian Museum.

By Steve Dow | Published 29 Jun 2023

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