This could be the catch-cry of the Biennale which, titled from the Wiradjuri word NIRIN and meaning “the edge,” delivers the artist … More
Category: Arts Writing
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
The Age | Where intimacy happens
Since art can be a mediating force for how a person can understand themselves and their life, and since life … More
Art Guide Australia | Brook Andrew on biennales, the art world and new ways of seeing
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives … More
Art Guide Australia | Review: Bauhaus Now!
In 2019 galleries and museums across the world are celebrating 100 years of the Bauhaus, the modernist German art, design … More
Meanjin | Is Art Pop? On Darren Sylvester’s Promises
In the 1997 film The Castle, the obvious-talking young narrator named Dale Kerrigan has a totalising faith in the promise of shared, … More
Art Guide Australia | TarraWarra International 2019: The Tangible Trace
An abandoned seaside motel stands in Port Dickson, Malaysia. After being sold to foreign speculative buyers in the 1980s, it … More
