Feature
Retracing a Tense Past
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Preview
Catherine Truman: no surface holds
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
Tiarney Miekus
Review
She Wants to Go to Her Bedroom but She Can’t Be Bothered
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
Anna Dunnill
Preview
The 36th annual Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
Tiarney Miekus
Interview
Prue Venables on having itchy fingers and creative hands
For the new instalment of their Living Treasures series, the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects.
Sheridan Hart
News
Susan Norrie wins Don Macfarlane Prize 2019
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
Art Guide Australia
Review
Tony Oursler: On/Off
“Look at the screen, I’m on my way to make heaven,” gargles the voice of a bodiless cubist head talking on a loop as you enter Fox Jensen Gallery.
John Buckley
Interview
Clara Adolphs
“I was aware that the scale of my work is relative to me. I had created a habituated practice relative to my body size and it was something I sought to extend. I wanted to create larger, more immersive scenes in painting.”
Varia Karipoff
News
Blak Douglas wins Kilgour Prize 2019
Blak Douglas has won the 2019 Kilgour Prize with his large graphic portrait of actress and singer Ursula Yovich.
Art Guide Australia
Preview
Lucreccia Quintanilla: A Ripple and an Echo
Looking at the way sound and music can influence art making and storytelling, Lucreccia Quintanilla highlights the sounds of nature within the urban environment of Melbourne.
Briony Downes
Feature
Not a Still Life
The Margaret Olley survey show at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) is subtitled A Generous Life, but it could just as easily have been called Margaret Olley: Rebel.
Tracey Clement
News
Sally Robinson wins Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019
Sally Robinson has won the 2019 Portia Geach Memorial Award. The Sydney-based artist took out the $30,000 portrait painting prize for women with her self-portrait titled Body in a box.
