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 [...]
environment
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
With bronze, glass and a neighbourhood park as his tools, Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk created what must be one of the most touching and humane pieces of public art to [...]
Amica Whincop’s Enchanted Art
I am eternally jealous of anyone who experienced an English upbringing. As a kid, I had an intense love of all things Enid Blyton, and was desperate for my Gold Coast [...]
Found and Lost: the art of Emma Lindsay and Victoria Reichelt
Long before David Attenborough seduced us all with his dulcet tones, art and science were inextricably linked by the use of scientific illustrators to provide visual records [...]
Waddell and Winton, the Painter and the Scribe.
Gazing across the choppy vistas of Craig Waddell’s most recent show, I can’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. Headlands, with its craggy outcrops and deep dark blues, [...]
Hans Silvester, and the plight of the Omo River Valley Tribespeople
Those of us who love the arts know that the thought of life without art is a pitiful one. Some of us, myself included, would even go so far as to say that our lives [...]
Planet Red Earth
In honour of World Earth Day, I thought I’d take you on a wander through the work of Red Earth, an international environmental art group whose core practice revolves [...]
Debris, Detritus and Delicacy at Anchorage Museum
If you attended APT7 at Brisbane’s GOMA last year, you may remember this ethereal work from Kiwi artist Joanna Langford: Born in Gisborne, New Zealand (just like me!) [...]
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