Karen Stephens: The Artificial Horizon
“Reality is no longer defined by time and space but by a virtual world in which technology allows the existence of the paradox of being everywhere at the same time [...]
Articles by Carrie McCarthy
Emma Lindsay & the Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project
Brisbane-based artist Emma Lindsay has made a solid career out of documenting the damage wrecked by people on the natural world. Often it makes for confronting work, as she [...]
Belem Lett at Sydney Contemporary
At first glance, Belem Lett’s paintings appear like highly sophisticated versions of Rorschach ink blots. It’s only on closer inspection the you notice the tiny [...]
Coast at Edwina Corlette Gallery
From the long sandy beaches of Western Australia, to the mangroves and saltmarshes of Arnhem Land, Australians have a profound connection to the coast. For many, it beckons [...]
Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
First, it’s the capture of light that draws your attention, refracted across the canvas like rippled water in a creek. Then it’s the way colour and movement wrestle in [...]
Heidi Yardley: The Sinking Belle
Heidi Yardley’s The Sinking Belle opens today at Arthouse Gallery, Sydney. Here’s a little feature I wrote for Art Almanac on her new suite of works: There is [...]
Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company
Reviewing Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company was never going to be an easy task. Now something of an Australian theatre classic, it examines the social impulse to [...]
Clara Adolphs’s Creatures
Perhaps I’ve been watching too much The Handmaid’s Tale (NB: I have DEFINITELY been watching too much The Handmaid’s Tale), but the blokes who appear in [...]
Opera Q’s Ruddigore at QPAC
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do [...]
Linde Ivimey: the Shape of Things
Remember when women of influence were found in the pages of history, and not in an Instagram feed of acai bowls and hashtags? When young girls might have drawn inspiration [...]
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