quarARTine #4 – Amanda van Gils at The Other Art Fair
Brisbane-based landscape painter Amanda van Gils is one of many artists whose work was to be shown at The Other Art Fair, Sydney, this month. Regular followers may recall me [...]
Environment
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 [...]
Found and Lost: the art of Emma Lindsay and Victoria Reichelt
Long before David Attenborough seduced us all with his dulcet tones, art and science were inextricably linked by the use of scientific illustrators to provide visual records [...]
Robyn Stacey’s Cloud Land
There’s a perverse thing about humans that make two behavioral quirks a certainty: when we see a closed door, we immediately want to know what’s happening on [...]
Waddell and Winton, the Painter and the Scribe.
Gazing across the choppy vistas of Craig Waddell’s most recent show, I can’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. Headlands, with its craggy outcrops and deep dark blues, [...]
Hans Silvester, and the plight of the Omo River Valley Tribespeople
Those of us who love the arts know that the thought of life without art is a pitiful one. Some of us, myself included, would even go so far as to say that our lives [...]
Amanda van Gils: E-Motions
Long car trips along great stretches of highway…tree after tree flashing past…blue skies turning orange as the day ends…whispery white streaks of [...]
Hope & Love: through the eyes of refugees
You know what’s great about Australia’s handling of our refugee ‘crisis’? It’s that no matter how long you take to write about it, it never [...]
The Little Things
“There’s a reason people build miniatures. Doesn’t matter if it’s guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It’s about [...]
Pete Foley: The New Pantheon
Here’s something I never expected to find myself doing late on a Tuesday night – standing in a vacant, candlelit block high up on a hill in Brisbane’s West [...]
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