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 undulating lines, dragging and splitting pigment into huge writhing forms. Physical … Continue reading Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
Art Almanac, July 2017 There is something ill-defined and unsettling about the women who feature throughout Heidi Yardley’s oeuvre. Begun as collages which then act as source material for larger paintings and drawings, each figure is a multilayered hybrid of … Continue reading Heidi Yardley: The Sinking Belle
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 Clara Adolphs’s Creatures get more sinister with every viewing. It’s something to do with … Continue reading Clara Adolphs’s Creatures
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
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
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