Verge Collective: Super Natural
At a bush residency west of Brisbane, six metropolitan photomedia artists gathered to explore the natural world. There were no plans to collaborate, though they saw [...]
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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 [...]
Nina Hanley’s Surreal Realities
Nina Hanley is an emerging artist from Canungra in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Entirely self-taught, Hanley won her first painting award in Grade One – the prize being [...]
Stills Gallery to close June 2017
Sad news out yesterday that Stills Gallery, a leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and new media artists, is set to close in June this year. [...]
Simryn Gill: Sweet Chariot
Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? I saw a band of angels coming after me, If you get there before I do, Tell all [...]
ART500: Helping Art Lovers Become Art Owners
“The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait” Dennis Heckler Stand me in any suburban homemaker centre, and my face will reflect a mix of horror and fatigue. [...]
Sha Sarwari’s National Icon
I’ve written before about serendipity, and how often I experience moments of it. Today, being World Refugee Day, is no exception. I’ve just had the work of [...]
Max Dupain’s Record Breaker
If you think there’s no value in photography now that everyone’s got a camera in their pocket, you can think again. Yesterday, a landmark auction of Australian [...]
Emma Wright, Storyteller.
I’m the first to admit that a lot of fine art photography leaves me cold. For every Bill Henson or James Craig Annan, there’s an infinite number of Anne Geddes wannabes [...]
Robyn Stacey’s Cloud Land
There’s a perverse thing about humans that make two behavioral quirks a certainty: when we see a closed door, we immediately want to know what’s happening on [...]
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