Modern Guru and the Path to Artificial Happiness - Artist Profile
A sparkling new art gallery and museum fully funded by the City of Coffs Harbour, Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) celebrates its first year reflecting on “light”—drawn from the translation of the gallery’s name in the local Gumbaynggirr language. .
Alana Wilson
As we enter lockdown again on the Northern Beaches, Alana Wilson’s work inspires us to look closer at nature and our immediate surroundings.
Chris Langlois
Chris Langlois has been painting dreamy, abstract landscapes for almost thirty years. His canvases reveal the magic of a horizon as the colours and light change, almost acting as a live artwork themselves. His show at Olsen Gallery, ‘Littoral Zone’, explores the landscape in more depth than ever before, as the artist innovatively maximises the financial constraints of Covid.
AP51_141 Jo Davenport
Wandering through the landscape, in a summer that began with bushfires and ended with Coronavirus lockdown, Albury-based artist Jo Davenport evokes emotion in her audience.
Julian Meagher
Painter Julian Meagher is seeking Calm with his new exhibition ‘sleepwalking’ at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, in October.
Billy Bain
Billy Bain is an emerging artist who engages with ceramics, painting and printmaking to unpack ideologies surrounding Australian masculinity, taking agency in his Indigenous identity after growing up on Sydney’s Eurocentric Northern Beaches. In his upcoming solo exhibition ‘Blokes’ at .M Contemporary, the artist will be exploring these concepts in darkly humoured mini ‘men’ clay figures who are grisly, raw and unapologetically themselves.
Portraits Project
When Manly Art Gallery & Museum (MAG&M) were considering their shows for the ninetieth anniversary of the gallery, they wanted to highlight the contemporary artists who have contributed to exhibitions in recent times. One avenue they realised they hadn’t explored was portraiture. ‘We know there's such interest with so many prizes around Australia focused on portraiture, and we've never tapped into it,’ says Senior Curator Katherine Roberts.
Lisa Reihana
Auckland-based artist, Lisa Reihana presents her new 3D video work, 'Nomads of the Sea' (2019), at ‘NIRIN’, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, from artistic director Brook Andrew and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. Read more in my interview for Artist Profile.
Dean Cross
Sydney-based artist Dean Cross uses his background in dance to consider how the audience views his works, which reflects Australia at its most raw and unfiltered. His latest exhibition ‘A Sullen Perfume’ at Yavuz Gallery explores temporal reactions to everyday life.
Jedda-Daisy Culley
Jedda-Daisy Culley’s exhibition, ‘FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS’ (even though due to finish last week) continues on Jerico Contemporary’s website. Fitting for an exhibition about feelings, the audience is welcomed to contemplate the artworks alone, on the couch, in their beds, or home offices.
India Mark
Q&A with artist India Mark, in issue 48
Yhonnie Scarce
Interview with Kokatha and Nukunu glass artist Yhonnie Scarce for Artist Profile.
Jasper Knight
Preview of Jasper Knight's exhibition at James Makin Gallery, in issue 47
Kaylene Whiskey
Interview with Iwantja Arts artist Kaylene Whiskey for Artist Profile.
Caroline Garcia
Interview with artist Caroline Garcia, New York based artist who explores the shifting territory between intersectional feminism, diasporic politics and pop culture through a cinematic lens.
Emily Parsons-Lord
An interview with artist Emily Parsons-Lord, a Sydney-based artist who engages a host of media outside of traditional art-making methods.
Juz Kitson
An interview with Juz Kitson, an Australian artist based in China. This article was created ahead of her drawing debut at Cement Fondu's Warm Bodies exhibition which runs from 6th October till 25th November.
