Artist Profile • 1st November 2024

Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness - Artist Profile

A sparkling new art gallery and museum fully funded by the City of Coffs Harbour, Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) celebrates its first year reflecting on “light”—drawn from the translation of the gallery’s name in the local Gumbaynggirr language. .

Artist Profile • 31st December 2020

Alana Wilson

As we enter lockdown again on the Northern Beaches, Alana Wilson’s work inspires us to look closer at nature and our immediate surroundings.

Artist Profile • 4th November 2020

Chris Langlois

Chris Langlois has been painting dreamy, abstract landscapes for almost thirty years. His canvases reveal the magic of a horizon as the colours and light change, almost acting as a live artwork themselves. His show at Olsen Gallery, ‘Littoral Zone’, explores the landscape in more depth than ever before, as the artist innovatively maximises the financial constraints of Covid.

30th October 2020

AP51_141 Jo Davenport

Wandering through the landscape, in a summer that began with bushfires and ended with Coronavirus lockdown, Albury-based artist Jo Davenport evokes emotion in her audience.

30th October 2020

Julian Meagher

Painter Julian Meagher is seeking Calm with his new exhibition ‘sleepwalking’ at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, in October.

Artist Profile • 2nd September 2020

Billy Bain

Billy Bain is an emerging artist who engages with ceramics, painting and printmaking to unpack ideologies surrounding Australian masculinity, taking agency in his Indigenous identity after growing up on Sydney’s Eurocentric Northern Beaches. In his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Blokes’ at .M Contemporary, the artist will be exploring these concepts in darkly humoured mini ‘men’ clay figures who are grisly, raw and unapologetically themselves.

Artist Profile • 20th August 2020

Portraits Project

When Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M) were considering their shows for the ninetieth anniversary of the gallery, they wanted to highlight the contemporary artists who have contributed to exhibitions in recent times. One avenue they realised they hadn’t explored was portraiture. ‘We know there's such interest with so many prizes around Australia focused on portraiture, and we've never tapped into it,’ says Senior Curator Katherine Roberts.

Artist Profile • 30th April 2020

Lisa Reihana

Auckland-based artist, Lisa Reihana presents her new 3D video work, 'Nomads of the Sea' (2019), at ‘NIRIN’, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, from artistic director Brook Andrew and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. Read more in my interview for Artist Profile.

Artist Profile • 15th April 2020

Dean Cross

Sydney-based artist Dean Cross uses his background in dance to consider how the audience views his works, which reflects Australia at its most raw and unfiltered. His latest exhibition ‘A Sullen Perfume’ at Yavuz Gallery explores temporal reactions to everyday life.

Artist Profile • 4th April 2020

Jedda-Daisy Culley

Jedda-Daisy Culley’s exhibition, ‘FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS’ (even though due to finish last week) continues on Jerico Contemporary’s website. Fitting for an exhibition about feelings, the audience is welcomed to contemplate the artworks alone, on the couch, in their beds, or home offices.

1st November 2019

India Mark

Q&A with artist India Mark, in issue 48

Artist Profile • 20th March 2019

Yhonnie Scarce

Interview with Kokatha and Nukunu glass artist Yhonnie Scarce for Artist Profile.

12th November 2019

Jasper Knight

Preview of Jasper Knight's exhibition at James Makin Gallery, in issue 47

Artist Profile • 1st March 2019

Kaylene Whiskey

Interview with Iwantja Arts artist Kaylene Whiskey for Artist Profile.

Artist Profile • 8th January 2019

Caroline Garcia

Interview with artist Caroline Garcia, New York based artist who explores the shifting territory between intersectional feminism, diasporic politics and pop culture through a cinematic lens.

Artist Profile • 31st October 2018

Emily Parsons-Lord

An interview with artist Emily Parsons-Lord, a Sydney-based artist who engages a host of media outside of traditional art-making methods.

Artist Profile • 10th October 2018

Juz Kitson

An interview with Juz Kitson, an Australian artist based in China. This article was created ahead of her drawing debut at Cement Fondu's Warm Bodies exhibition which runs from 6th October till 25th November.