Andrew Stephens is an independent visual arts writer based in Melbourne. He has worked as a journalist, editor and curator, and has degrees in fine art and art history.
Gabriella Hirst’s latest video takes influence from an 1800s painting of the Darling River, questioning why we immortalise nature in painting, but not in life.
A new film melds art and activism, capturing the devastating effects of fracking for First Nations people.
Samson Young composes for instruments that can never exist, breathing life into musical impossibilities.
While he firmly established a specific vision for the art he wanted to make, John Nixon always remained an artist who loved to experiment and explore.
Working from the APY Lands, Robert Fielding blends Indigenous tradition and culture with innovative forms.
A former Melbourne technical college becomes central to growing a creative ecology.
Revealing truths through rescued kitsch.
Industrial design meets straw marquetry via the age-old game of ‘exquisite corpse’.
As an abstract painter with an enduring interest in modernism, John Nixon has always enjoyed exploring and absorbing material from allied fields.
