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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

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

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