Briony Downes is an arts writer based in Hobart. She has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years as a writer, actor, gallery assistant, art theory tutor and fine art framer. Most recently, she spent time studying Art History through Oxford University.
Whether snapping her iconic rock’n’roll portraits or intimate family moments, Linda McCartney was a trailblazer.
With myriad references to museum curios, colonial landowners, and lashings of highlighter yellow, Joan Ross’s aesthetic is instantly recognisable. The Sydney-based artist, whose exhibition ‘Land of the Broken Hearted’ is currently on display at Bett Gallery Hobart, shares the stories behind five of her recent works.
In Hapyhazard, online at Flinders Lane Gallery, Michael Gromm performs a lyrical dance between figuration and abstraction.
From drawing with fossil fuel by-products, to creating art from historical botanical books, Caroline Rothwell looks at the increasingly complex relationship between humans and nature.
Dean Cross examines his past, present and future ambitions through the lens of a Greek myth in his solo show Icarus, my Son at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. He spoke to Briony Downs about leaving his regional home for the big city and the responsibility of being a culture-maker.
Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce talks about the power of visual narratives, how her work reveals hidden truths, and her latest show Missile Park now on at the Institute of Modern Art.
Jennifer Keeler-Milne rediscovered her love of oil paint thanks to wattle, leaves, and lockdown. Autumn & Spring, at Australian Galleries in Sydney, is her first solo show of paintings in nearly a decade.
As Mona celebrates its 10th anniversary, the gallery is strengthening its connection with Tasmanian locals and harking back to its beginning: a private art collection.
Sally Rees celebrates the witchy magic of female ageing via the figure of the ‘crone’.
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
This Icon series exhibition delves into poetic microcosms with a sense of wonder.
