Inside Katy B Plummer’s Carriageworks Studio
“I’m often talking about really tough things, and making them into comedy makes them manageable. But it also disarms people,” says Katy B Plummer in our studio visit with the artist, where she talks her inner high school thespian, and wrestling with her “art fairy”.
How Vipoo Srivilasa is repairing happiness
“I can somehow walk the fine balance between the business world and the art world, and also the craft world.”
Guy Warren
“I do something every day, even if it’s only a scribble. But of course I still have doubts. There is no certainty in this game. There are no rules.”
Into Deborah Kelly’s remote studio
“What I think of as my real work happens outside the studio and in exchange with other humans.”
Tennant Creek Brio
“Our country and culture has been there all the time, it is our strength, our dream, and our stories. No one can take that away from us. So, we’ve got to tell that story and share it.” – Jimmy Frank, Tennant Creek Brio
Rosie Deacon
“Sometimes it’s like I have a big spinning sort of feeling in my body: hard to soft, angles and sharpness, then really beautiful and cuddly and soft.”
Alex Seton
Alex Seton is known for his marble sculptures. These carved stone works often mimic the soft folds of fabric, but they have a hard political edge.
Natalie Thomas
“How good can we get something to look, that’s got no value, really?” says artist Natalie Thomas. “I use $2 shop paint generally. I just look around at what I’ve got access to and use it, see how good I can get it.”
Trent Walter and Stuart Geddes
Trent Walter has run Negative Press, a publisher of limited-edition prints and artist books, for over a decade. Now, for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Negative Press is home to a new piece of equipment—the Heidelberg GTO 52, an offset lithography press—and a new collaboration with designer Stuart Geddes to produce a publication, NIRIN NGAAY.
