Helle Cook: Community of Light
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 [...]
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Charmaine Pike at Edwina Corlette Gallery
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 [...]
Dan Kyle 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 [...]
Christopher Zanko: A Different Road Home
Townships change. Places we call home can become virtually unrecognisable overnight as populations shift and new industries take hold. Landmarks disappear, and a district’s [...]
Carolyn V Watson: modifiedwonder
she’s learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she’s trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy [...]
Karen Stephens: The Artificial Horizon
“Reality is no longer defined by time and space but by a virtual world in which technology allows the existence of the paradox of being everywhere at the same time [...]
Belem Lett at Sydney Contemporary
At first glance, Belem Lett’s paintings appear like highly sophisticated versions of Rorschach ink blots. It’s only on closer inspection the you notice the tiny [...]
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 [...]
Clara Adolphs’s Creatures
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 [...]
Linde Ivimey: the Shape of Things
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 [...]
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