Feature
In the Stars
Torres Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson’s prints present densely illustrated stories, spanning traditional knowledge, history and pop culture.
Interview
Interview: Amanda Marburg
Amanda Marburg is “a painter, not a sculptor,” she maintains. Her works might have a starting point in film or fairy tale, or riff on a moment in art history, but it’s the modest ‘sketch’ in plasticine that lends a distinctive look to her work and has her reiterating her vocational calling.
Varia Karipoff
Insiders
Anne Wallace: Strange Ways
Chris McAuliffe recommends Anne Wallace: Strange Ways at QUT Art Museum.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of art insiders share their thoughts on what to see this month.
Insiders
Preppers
Tracey Clement recommends Preppers at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Looking for some recommendations? Our panel of art insiders share their thoughts on what to see this month.
Feature
Shirin Neshat: Dreamers
It’s interesting to note that at a time when Western relations with Iran are once again becoming markedly, worryingly strained, Neshat appears to be heading in a broader direction in her work, away from the politically charged direction of her past.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
Preview
The shore, the race, the other place
In paintings like Our Rocky Shore, 2019, Neil Haddon blends the soft textures of clouds with contrasting colours, creating a surface crackling with orange hues and the veined branches of trees.
Briony Downes
Review
Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth
PICA curator Charlotte Hickson and Taiwanese-born guest curator Ashley Yihsin Chang have assembled four artists from each city (Perth and Taipei) for Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth.
Sheridan Hart
Preview
Artist run initiatives take over Hobart in Hobiennale
Spearheaded in 2017 by Tasmanian ARI (artist run initiative) Constance, Hobiennale is a week-long arts festival uniting ARIs from across Australia and New Zealand via free exhibitions, projects and artists’ talks.
Briony Downes
News
Liam Nunan wins The Lester Prize 2019
Sydney-based actor and artist Liam Nunan is the winner of the $50,000 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019, for his portrait of fellow actor Jonny Hawkins.
Art Guide Australia
Preview
Companions
Anna-Wili Highfield’s art career began outside the gallery system…
Zara Sigglekow
Preview
Form and Memory
Claudia Terstappen is known for her photography, but recently she has started working with ceramics as well.
Tracey Clement
Feature
Cold, Hard Look
In the dynamic, imaginative works of Cornelia Parker we face tough questions on democracy, war and authority.
