Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
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 [...]
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Lucy Anderson, deskilled domestic
Brisbane artist Lucy Anderson is one of the river city’s most exciting emerging artists. Since graduating from Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2012, she has become known [...]
Gabrielle Jones’ Wicked Games
“full of shining light…[she] lets the inner things – her soul – come in to her paintings [and] evokes feelings from the viewer.” Charles Blackman, discussing the [...]
Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize Winners for 2016 are…ALL WOMEN!
I know, I know. There’s nothing as important in Australian art as The Archie’s aka Paint Sniffers Christmas! Here are the winners: Louise Hearman has taken out [...]
Andy Harwood: the art of Geometric Abstraction
I first chanced upon the work of Andy Harwood in a café in Brisbane’s Paddington. Waiting for a business meeting with someone who never showed, I was distracted by the [...]
BP Portrait Prize Winner Announced
Turns out third time really is a charm for Edinburgh-born artist Clara Drummond, who has taken out the BP Portrait Prize with her portrait of fellow artist Kirsty Buchanan. A [...]
Ai Wei Wei at Cycladic
Sometimes it feels like Ai Wei Wei’s prolific Instagram presence might threaten to undermine his vast body of work. One of the world’s most recognisable [...]
Millie Bartlett – a Collage of Quirks
Cheeky political messages, acerbic feminist commentary, and a vaguely Happy Days/Lost in Space vibe are just some of the quirky elements Sydney artist Millie Bartlett [...]
Damien Pasquale’s Rugged Control
“The painting can develop something that is not at all related to the drawing and have no particular mood about it at all; it’s just a cool kind of reality that has a [...]
David Jones and The Colonial Collective Problem
I wrote the following essay for Bosz Gallery to coincide with local artist David Jones’ current exhibition The Colonial Collective Problem. I don’t normally [...]
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