- • 17/01/2026

AGNES — Agnes Contemporary — exhibition essay

Agnes sets the stage for the ‘location-less’ framework. For art to transcend the digital gallery, a website, to ethereal spaces — conjuring ideas of exhibitions in the forest (BYO chair) or beside the creek. Outside of the white cube; operating outside the veil both literally and ideologically.

Agnes Contemporary • 17/01/2026

About — Agnes Contemporary

Straddling the space between the physical and online realms, Agnes Contemporary is neither a commercial art gallery nor an artist-run initiative. Instead, the art remains in the artist’s control. It’s a space for art to be experienced and seen — adaptable as it morphs into different variations, in a constant state of flux, flow, and movement.

Exhibition essay • 12/06/2025

Marisabel Gonzalez: De Rerum Natura — On the Matter of Things

"On the Nature of Things," is a first-century BC didactic poem poses an answer to the unknown—in that it remains unknown, but trust there is a process working behind everything spiritual and mystical.

Exhibition essay • 06/05/2025

Emma Coulter: SUPERIMPOSITION

Emma Coulter’s latest exhibition, SUPERIMPOSITION, extends her practice of paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations. In a series of new works, Coulter uses the same meticulous processes, employing her distinctive spectrum of colours. They offer a delving into geometry and abstraction, playing with perception.

Exhibition essay • 06/05/2025

Huseyin Sami: CHROMATIC CARPENTRY

Huseyin Sami taps into the senses through an intimate and physical engagement with his chosen medium of painting. House paint — plastic in liquid form — is poured; as it sets, the artist pushes and pulls the plastic skins. A gesture remains
of tension from his unguessable innovative and experimental processes. At once a final piece and a documentation of performance, the artworks are slick and glossy, painting reduced to an abstracted form.

Exhibition essay • 10/04/2025

Susie Dureau: Rhythmia

Exhibition essay for Susie Dureau’s exhibition Rhythmia at Curatorial+Co (published in Art Almanac).

Exhibition essay • 08/03/2025

Bridie Gillman: 'Sight Lines' at Edwina Corlette, Brisbane

....the paintings invite a moment of pause. A moment to be in the landscape. Hear the wind and rain. Watch the shadows dance in the foliage. Gillman invited this energy in the repetition of line, form, and colour—translated from the rural typology. Engaging not only the senses we resonate with on an immediate basis (like smell, sight, touch, taste, hear), but also the ones we don’t—memory and emotion—for a tapping into the subconscious....

Exhibition essay • 15/01/2025

Nick Pont: Frequency (2024 - Present)

Artist statement for Frequency by Nick Pont

Exhibition essay • 17/09/2024

Kathryn Dolby: FEELING INTO FORM

Leaning into her intuition, 'Feeling Into Form' is Kathryn Dolby’s artistic energy captured on birch board in quickly applied brushwork. The paintings invite the viewer to discover more than what can be seen. Beyond the physicality, they serve as reminders of a feeling. A moment; the artwork becomes a portal to transcend the world as we understand it.

Bankston Website • 06/12/2022

Bankston + Edition Office

Bankston + Edition Office — copywriting

OTOMYS • 19/09/2022

Emma Itzstein 'I carry your landscape with mine' — exhibition essay

'I carry your landscapes with mine' investigates theories that explore a collective and singular experience through painting, a shared perception through art history. The artworks narrate a point in life that is still and solitary; however, this point is the beginning of a new venture.

Ash Holmes Art • 19/09/2022

ASH HOLMES 'Shadow Silhouette' — exhibition esay

"In her first solo exhibition in Naarm / Melbourne, 'Shadow Silhouette' Ash Holmes' latest body of work will be showcased in the natural light drenched walls of At The Above gallery. The concept that beauty lies within the shadows both figuratively and literally."

HOUSE OF ART • 21/07/2022

LUCINDA JONES — HOUSE OF ART

Lucinda Jones’ solo exhibition ‘Out of body’ brings together a collective moment through self-reflection.

20/07/2022

Cedar Jeffs artist bio for Otomys

Northern Rivers-based artist Cedar Jeffs explores the layers beyond the female image, probing into human behaviour through her surrealist paintings.

.M Contemporary • 24/06/2022

Maria Jose Benvenuto | Dialogues of Movement

Maria Jose Benvenuto’s 2022 solo show ‘Dialogues of Movement’ brings together her gestural, spontaneous artworks inspired by the concepts of movement in life. The wind blows; everything in the universe moving in sync with one another. Dancing across the surface, the brushstrokes are alive. Tension builds throughout the engagement of each ‘moment’.

29/05/2022

Ash Holmes — Vision Emerge exhibition essay

"In her latest body of work, Ash Holmes hones in on concepts of renewal– from the climate, her practice, and the strength of the people around her. Titled Vision Emerge, the exhibition opens on 28th May 2022 at the Northern Beaches' newest gallery, HAKE House of Art."

Anna Tork Studio • 03/05/2022

About — Anna Tork Studio

New York artist Anna Tork lives by the water in Williamsburg, which she turns to for daily inspiration in her abstract art practice. Originally from Russia, the artist moved to New York as a five-year-old and has lived here ever since.

HAKE • 27/03/2022

HAKE House of Art - Company We Keep

"The debut exhibition from Sydney’s Northern Beaches newest art gallery, HAKE House of Art, brings together sixteen artists from across the country. Company We Keep reflects on times like these, of separations, and how art can unite viewers and artists alike."

HOUSE OF ART • 14/03/2022

About — HOUSE OF ART

"Welcome to HAKE, the House Of Art.

HAKE House of Art is a new gallery space located in Dee Why in Sydney's Northern Beaches on Guringai Land. A multidisciplinary creative space, Hake is a place where art comes to life and is breathed into our community.

Founded in 2022 by Ash Holmes and Jake Elliott, the gallery becomes a site to foster creativity, comprising of regular art exhibitions from both emerged and emerging artists and the invitation of independent projects."

Michael Reid Gallery • 06/12/2021

Michael Reid Gallery

OTOMYS • 20/10/2021

'smalls' exhibition essay for Otomys

"Otomys’ annual group exhibition, smalls explores a narrative beyond scale, instead, welcoming consideration from their artists that connects the viewer with a closer thought and look outside of the obvious. Showcasing work by 15 Australian and International Otomys artists, smalls presents a variety of mediums, including oils, acrylics, timber, pigment print and watercolour monotypes."

Saint Cloche • 29/09/2021

CARISSA KARAMARKO — artist bio

"Carissa Karamarko is an emerging artist based in Melbourne who uses the genre of still life to explore colour, navigating different worlds and experiences through objecthood.

Carissa’s artworks investigate our relationship to objects and their meaning, both inherent, associated or inherited. However, using expressive colour, she expands on this traditional art genre, affirming its place within today’s contemporary art world."

OTOMYS • 22/09/2021

Greg Wood 'Nature of Change' Otomys — catalogue essay

"In his new exhibition, Nature of Change, Australian artist Greg Wood, reflects on the impact of the last 18 months with an innovative approach. Instead of exploring the materiality of the surface, Wood turns to an ephemeral reality - an illusion of the material in the creation of a world that can be glimpsed beyond the two dimensional."

Libby Haines Art • 19/09/2021

Libby Haines — artist statement

Originally from Sale, Gippsland, artist Libby Haines swapped the country for Melbourne, where she works from her home studio. As a mother and an artist, her work cherishes the joy of everyday moments and the nostalgia of objects in colourful still life paintings.