Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a range influences and curiosities including the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory … More
Category: Arts Writing
The Age | In a world of wonder, Piccinini asks us to value more than beauty
Newly dusted off, the deserted ballroom above Flinders Street Station is an arresting and quietly emotive space to encounter Patricia … More
Disclaimer | Iterations: John Nixon
Not far from where St Kilda beach forms a firm line against the land, inside the Palais Theatre, which is … More
The Age | An unfinished landscape: She-Oak show sheds new light on classics
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism Among plenty of paintings of the Australian landscape there are unexpected, flooring moments: one is … More
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Matthew Harris on camp, class and culture
From repetitions of flowers to grim reapers riding unicorns to cartoon devils gleefully inflicting pain on their enemies, the paintings … More
The Age | ‘I’m trying to crack a code’: mum’s brain injury inspires artist
Jennifer Arnold’s words unfold, like inscrutable clues, across her daughter’s paintings. Written in a flowing script, the phrase “déar Dé-light” … More
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Anne Wallace on realism, motherhood and creating tension
Drawing upon passing scenes from life, and filled with allusions to pop culture, Anne Wallace’s realist paintings deliver images that … More
The Age | Seeing like Jeffrey Smart: how empty streets gave me a new insight
There was both rain and sunshine; buildings and roads appeared brighter than the darkened clouds. In a strange stillness, I … More
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Juz Kitson on the beauty and ugliness of life
Porcelain, fur, paraffin wax, silk, resin, glass, bones, fox and rabbit pelt, Tibetan gazelle horns: these are just some of … More
The Age | Artist Danila Vassilieff was selling his house. There was just one catch
When Elizabeth Hamill visited Stonygrad in Warrandyte in 1947, the owner agreed to sell the house on one condition: that … More
