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 from Joan of Arc, Simone de Beauvoir and Marie Curie, … Continue reading Linde Ivimey: the Shape of Things
Blue Mountains-based artist Gabrielle Jones is currently enjoying two things I’m envious of: an Italian summer, and the very warm reception of her work at a solo exhibition at Gallery Grefti, in the Italian town of Umbertide. Not. Jealous. At. … Continue reading Gabrielle Jones at Gallery Grefti, Italy
I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent consumer of their music – not because I dislike … Continue reading Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company
Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that the genre’s real tragedies are the ones that happened … Continue reading Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC
If you’ve grabbed the 20th anniversary issue of Art Collector, you’ll already know that Victoria Reichelt has a new exhibition of works commemorating the quaint and passé opening next month. It’s hard to miss her, given she’s the covergirl. Knot 2017 makes … Continue reading Victoria Reichelt’s Precipice at This Is No Fantasy
Nina Hanley is an emerging artist from Canungra in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Entirely self-taught, Hanley won her first painting award in Grade One – the prize being a McDonald’s hamburger, a moment she still considers one of her finest. After … Continue reading Nina Hanley’s Surreal Realities
What defines the notion of home? This is what Danish-born, Brisbane-based artist Helle Cook investigates in her painting practice. A recent graduate of Queensland College of Art (QCA), Cook’s works linger on the verge between abstraction and figuration, both recognisable and … Continue reading Helle Cook – Notion of Home
I bloody love an artist who can cut through the bullshit in an industry that is so predisposed to bullshit and present complex theories in a way that even a muppet like me can understand. I mean, I legitimately understood bugger … Continue reading Christian Flynn: Within the realm of a dying sun…
When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for … Continue reading Paul Ryan’s Forgotten Histories
There is something eerily familiar about the trees that have begun to sprout up in Tim McMonagle’s work in recent times. An artist who has spent almost two decades disseminating human nature’s foibles and absurdities through his whimsical compositions, McMonagle … Continue reading Tim McMonagle at Edwina Corlette Gallery
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