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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
If this belief from heaven be sent, if such be Nature’s holy plan, Have I not reason to lament what man has made of man? Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth The year I was born, 1977, there … Continue reading Jeremy Plint: If Such Be Nature’s Holy Plan
There is a meditative quality to Aaron Kinnane’s landscapes that suggests his inspiration goes beyond simple fascinations with environment and the materiality of paint. From a family of artists, Kinnane spent years observing the land while mustering cattle on horseback … Continue reading Aaron Kinnane: River Song
Born in Yuendumu, at the edge of the Tanami Desert roughly 350kms from Alice Springs, Candy Nelson Nakamarra was first introduced to art making as a child by her father Johnny Warangkula (1925-2001), a renowned artist at the forefront of … Continue reading Candy Nelson Nakamarra in ‘Common Ground’
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