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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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 [...]
America the Brave: Contemporary Indigenous American Art
The Fourth of July, American Independence Day, doesn’t hold much relevance in Australia, but the fact that it’s today does at least allow me an excuse to focus on [...]
