ArtRage 2023

Vera Möller on the mysteries of the deep

The marine life of the Great Southern Reef is the landscape behind Vera Möller’s latest abstract paintings, now showing at Philip Bacon Galleries.

Briony Downes

‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time-warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap

In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a gloriously defiant statement of the ways we shape and reshape our identities over time.

Cherine Fahd

“Running with the hares while hunting with the hounds”: the life and art of Elizabeth Blair Barber

Throughout her nine decades, Elizabeth Blair Barber used her vibrant social life as the wife of Charles Bunning (of the Bunnings hardware empire) to fuel her art practice and raise the profile of other female creatives by painting well-known figures from the West Australian art scene.

Briony Downes