For over 20 years, Carolyn V Watson has used her art practice to comprehend and chronicle her life history and experiences. Primarily self-taught, Watson was initially committed to an intense drawing and painting practice before experimenting with three-dimensional making to … Continue reading Carolyn V Watson: cuttings from a homecoming

Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Vipoo Srivilasa has created intricate and elaborate artworks that reflect his bicultural experience living between Australia and Thailand. Working mostly in ceramic, he celebrates the intersections and overlaps between our cultural, social, … Continue reading Vipoo Srivilasa: My Sunshine Doesn’t Come From the Sky

Though Bundit Puangthong studied both traditional and contemporary art making in his native Thailand, his emergence in contemporary Australian art happened almost as an afterthought. Having travelled to Melbourne to study English, Puangthong earned extra money as a street artist … Continue reading Bundit Puangthong: Endless Yarn

Tape.A noun, a verb. Things held together, recorded, kept safe. Problems solved. Well…at least until the glues break down and technologies fade.Temporary security. The history of Tape Art dates back to the urban art of the 1960-80s, when its easy use and removal … Continue reading Variations on Tape

Adrienne Gaha’s mirage-like dreamscapes are an emotional and intuitive response to the world, constrained by her formal understanding of painting, surface, and form. Working with glazes, she layers and rubs colours into each other in a process of putting on … Continue reading Adrienne Gaha: Verdure

Antoinette O’Brien’s sculptural works present an ongoing inquiry into personal memory, social structures, politics, and location. Appearing initially as portraits of singular figures, deeper investigation reveals multilayered works that respond to O’Brien’s contemplations on life, world events, and the influence … Continue reading Antoinette O’Brien

Despite the instant familiarity of his subjects, realism is not an easy fit in John Bokor’s work – he finds it too constricting, too frustrating, too beige. Instead, he cherry picks from his experiences and influences to create scenes that … Continue reading John Bokor: A Place Like Home

Eliza Gosse explores life through the lens of architecture – specifically the clean, simple lines of post-war and mid-century design. Drawn to forms produced decades before she herself was born, Gosse creates paired back images that are not so much … Continue reading Eliza Gosse: You’re Poolside and Everything Is Perfect

Miranda Skoczek is inspired by opulence. Not the kind you see in lifestyles of the rich and famous, though it might be. Nor the sort you find in the troves of the world’s museums and places of worship – though … Continue reading Miranda Skoczek: Spirit and Matter

South-African born, Ipswich-based Jane du Rand uses her art practice to document and better understand the world around her, building three-dimensional landscapes that feature the native flora and fauna she encounters while bushwalking west of Brisbane. Having made note of everything she’s seen while hiking, she recreates these scenes using a combination of ceramic and mosaic techniques. Presented under glass cloches, they are reminiscent of the dioramas found in natural history museums – a contemporary sculptural version of the early natural history illustrations and specimen displays that existed in the Victorian era.  Originally trained as an architect, du Rand’s practice … Continue reading Jane du Rand: Ornithological Observations