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Susie Choi: Searching Chords

September 8, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

It’s late afternoon and Susie Choi is guiding me through her new exhibition Searching Chords at Mitchell Fine Art, in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Warm light reflects off the white walls and polished concrete floor, emphasising the pearlescent glazes and gold … Continue reading Susie Choi: Searching Chords

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Pia Murphy: Florescence

August 23, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

For regional Victorian-based artist Pia Murphy, the thrill of abstract painting comes from not knowing what is about to emerge from the canvas. She doesn’t sketch out her ideas or attempt to assert an outcome on the process, preferring to … Continue reading Pia Murphy: Florescence

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Jorge M. Brito: This Intimate Life

August 6, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Jorge M. Brito’s art practice is perhaps most notable for the experimental shifts in style he employs to convey the emotions underpinning his work. He oscillates between painting, printmaking and papermaking, and embraces chance effects in both process and mood. … Continue reading Jorge M. Brito: This Intimate Life

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Sha Sarwari, in conversation with Carrie McCarthy

July 24, 2024July 30, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Carrie McCarthy (CM): Let’s start with the 25th anniversary of your arrival in Australia, which you’ve recently marked. Is that a happy or bittersweet moment? Sha Sarwari (SS): It’s kind of strange. When I moved to Melbourne, I became more … Continue reading Sha Sarwari, in conversation with Carrie McCarthy

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The Closet

July 15, 2024July 30, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, 1 – 30 June 2024 The Closet brings together ten LGBTQI+ artists whose practices celebrate the richness and diversity of voices and experiences within the Queer community, particularly those whose formative years were spent in regional … Continue reading The Closet

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Pat Hoffie: This Mess We’re In

January 15, 2024July 30, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Pat Hoffie is standing in front of a work from her Clusterfkk series (2018-20), her hand running across the surface as she points out various details and textures. We’re at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, where her solo exhibition this mess … Continue reading Pat Hoffie: This Mess We’re In

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Jeanette Stok: Become

October 19, 2023July 17, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

In a mezzanine-level studio accessible via a precarious metal staircase, in an old factory building on Brisbane’s southside, Jeanette Stok has been expanding on an art practice that began in 2013 when she first merged her career as a scientific … Continue reading Jeanette Stok: Become

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Rhys Lee: The Importance of Pears & Other Things

August 16, 2023July 17, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Despite a career that spans over 25 years, Rhys Lee still finds it difficult to accurately define his art practice. His works are figurative inasmuch as recognisable faces, characters and objects appear across the canvas, but they are seldom directly … Continue reading Rhys Lee: The Importance of Pears & Other Things

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Linde Ivimey: Parvuli

June 24, 2023July 30, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland 2023 marks 20 years since Linde Ivimey was launched into the annals of contemporary Australian art with a major solo exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne—the first … Continue reading Linde Ivimey: Parvuli

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Zoe Porter In Conversation with Carrie McCarthy

June 15, 2023July 30, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Recorded at Hope Street Studio, April 2023, and reproduced for the exhibition Night Dwellers, OneSpace Gallery, Brisbane, June 2023. CARRIE McCARTHY (CM): Let’s start at the very beginning. When did your art practice begin and when did you realise it … Continue reading Zoe Porter In Conversation with Carrie McCarthy

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