For Julia Sirianni, painting is more than a pastime – it is a way of finding calm in a world that causes anxiety.  Location is everything. Each painting is the result of hours of research, scouring landscapes for the perfect … Continue reading Julia Sirianni: Suburban Sanctuaries

It is hard for Australians to appreciate the precious commodity daylight can be. Being almost permanently sun-drenched across the continent, it’s easy to take our weather for granted. Days when the sun is not a dazzling, stinging, fireball high above … Continue reading Helle Cook: Community of Light

There is a deceptive simplicity in Helena Lloyd’s approach to painting. Her energetic sweeps of colour and direct application of media bring a spontaneity to her subjects that makes the difficult seem effortless. Her work has that indescribable something – … Continue reading Helena Jackson Lloyd: The Truck Show

Lucy O’Doherty’s quirky, immediately identifiable aesthetic is the result of experimentations with colour, technique, light and shade. Using a retro colour palette and undefined brush strokes, she presents an idiosyncratic imitation of suburbia inspired by Depression Era architecture, motel postcards, … Continue reading Lucy O’Doherty: Are we safe here?

A love of process and insatiable curiosity for life’s contradictions are the hallmarks of Sally Anderson’s painterly style. Abstracted and instinctual, her compositions are intangible landscapes of vaguely constructivist forms, reactionary mark-making and opaque references to past experiences. Comprised of … Continue reading Sally Anderson: The Washdown and Salvation Jane

Charmaine Pike’s sublime landscapes are both tense and uplifting, recalling the 19th century painting trend for personifying nature in order to reflect the human condition. Employing bold line work and a sophisticated, moody colour palette, Pike draws us in to a surreal … Continue reading Charmaine Pike at Edwina Corlette Gallery

The lyrical splendour of the Australian bush is captured in Dan Kyle’s painterly mark. Hovering somewhere between figuration and abstraction, his landscapes play with surface and texture to recreate the majesty and intrigue of the dense scrub that surrounds his … Continue reading Dan Kyle at Edwina Corlette Gallery

Fascinated by the simple beauty of the everyday, Zoe Young works between still life, portraiture and abstraction to capture her delight in life’s fleeting moments, turning them into something intimate, revelatory and long-lasting. The distillation of experiences and sensations is … Continue reading Zoe Young: The Sea is the Key, the Ocean is the Potion

At a bush residency west of Brisbane, six metropolitan photomedia artists gathered to explore the natural world. There were no plans to collaborate, though they saw themselves as like-minded practitioners.  Guided by internationally-acclaimed mentor Marian Drew, they hoped to experiment, … Continue reading Verge Collective: Super Natural