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 [...]
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew’s Ethereal Installations
I am often blown away by the art I discover in a day, but perhaps never as much as when I first saw the work of Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew. Using layers of delicate [...]
Gary Abkin’s Grotesque Realisations
Californian artist Gary Abkin is something of an anomaly in the Australian art world. While so many of our hottest emerging artists view the Los Angeles art scene as [...]
Alison Mooney: Suspense & Unknowing
Somewhere between the worlds of graffiti, Japanese sugar pop and activist street art exists the work of Sunshine Coast artist Alison Mooney. Expansive, bright and energetic, [...]
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 [...]
The Mythology of Charles Billich: a portrait of one of our most colourful characters
Charles Billich is an Australian gem. A man of genius, eccentricities, and controversy, he has acquired a legendary, almost mythic, status. Yet in a nation that does not [...]
Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart
When Sydney artist Linde Ivimey was looking for a new studio space a few years ago, she chanced upon a two story warehouse in the inner west that was exactly what she [...]
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