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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Melbourne-based artist Sue Beyer is no stranger to Queensland audiences, with her public artworks adorning buildings in Brisbane and Ipswich. An alumni of the Queensland [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Brisbane artist Elysha Rei is the personification of the expression “worldly.” Born in Saudi Arabia, she lived with her family in Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and [...]
Had the writer Lewis Carroll chosen clay over pen & paper, he may well have created something like the work of Clairy Laurence. A ceramicist with over 30 years of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]