Jennifer Arnold’s words unfold, like inscrutable clues, across her daughter’s paintings. Written in a flowing script, the phrase “déar Dé-light” … More
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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
Art Guide Australia | Review: The 22nd Biennale of Sydney makes witnesses out of us all
This could be the catch-cry of the Biennale which, titled from the Wiradjuri word NIRIN and meaning “the edge,” delivers the artist … More
Art Guide Australia | Nell: It’s the Beginning of a New Age
One of Nell’s paintings, delivered in black, gold and white, declares, “It’s the beginning of a new age.” Originally found … More
The Age | Around the galleries: Robert Fielding, Joy Hester and West Space
ROUTES / ROOTS | Robert Fielding. Robert Fielding traverses time. He melds traditional Indigenous cultural forms with contemporary art practices, … More
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Eugenia Lim on ethics, absurdity and subverting stereotypes
With a practice encompassing video, performance and installation, Eugenia Lim is an Australian artist of Chinese-Singaporean descent. Lim’s major exhibition The … More
The Age | Problematic or romantic? Why self-taught artists don’t quite fit
If you ask Julian Burnside – the venerated lawyer, human rights advocate and art collector – why he bought the … More
