Fiona Foley: Horror has a Face
For over 30 years, Badtjala artist Fiona Foley has been an advocate for Indigenous political and social equality, using her art to educate and inform on Indigenous issues [...]
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Paul Ryan’s Forgotten Histories
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 [...]
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 [...]
Julian Meagher’s Alone In The Sun
Late last year I was lucky enough to sit down with Archibald and Wynne Prize finalist Julian Meagher to discuss his new body of work for Edwina Corlette Gallery. In front of [...]
Mad About the Boyd
Last year at APT7 at GOMA, I claimed this little baby as my favourite piece in the exhibition – It was hanging in the very first room I walked into, and although it [...]
A Primitive View of Art
What came first – the craftsman or the artist? It’s a question I seem to be constantly returning to at the moment. The words seem obvious and intertwined – [...]
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