Art activism and cultural boycotts have been with us for many years. In1968, the 34th Venice Biennale was marred in controversy. Police guarded the entrance as student protestors rushed to occupy several pavilions turning artworks to face the walls a

Jenn Nkiru’s REBIRTH IS NECESSARY, 2017, was exhibited in the group show TRANSFORMER: A Rebirth of Wonder at London’s 180 The Strand from October to December 2019. In those last months before shows shut down globally – that time which now feels so sw

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual Primavera exhibition showcases the works of young, emerging artists who live and work in Australia. In Primavera 2021: Young Australian Artists, Aboriginal curator, Hannah Presley, introduced us to five artists

Encountering Toba Khedoori’s work can be a destabilising, albeit exhilarating, experience. Her monumentally sized works on paper show highly detailed renderings of everyday things: a window, a piece of rope, an architectural structure. Yet rather tha

Kym Barrett lives on the land of the Gubbi Gubbi people, on an acreage in Chatsworth, a resi-dential settlement, two and half hours north of Brisbane. The settlement is generally non-descript and sits amongst a backdrop of rolling hills and a well gr

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. The Biennial is part of the Adelaide Festival, and since its inception in

First impressions can be deceiving. The impact of this tenth version of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (the APT) was less of a bang and more of what initially seemed like a whimper. Where were the big names? Where were the familiar bi

“I’m a quick worker and a slow thinker,” Andrew Cranston told me in his Glasgow studio. The evidence of this was all around us. It looked as though a tornado had whipped through an over-filled second-hand bookstore; or someone had gone mad searching

"Queer” is a complex and fluid term. Historically it meant “strange” or “peculiar,” but from the late nineteenth century it came to be used as a slur against people expressing same sex desires. The contemporary usage of queer as an umbrella term for

Zofrea understood quite early in his development that music could nourish his creativity. He is as inspired by composers and performers as he is by painters from the early Renaissance to the modern. The language of symphonies and operas — not notes o

Attracted to art’s mystery and magic from childhood, Sally Ross always wanted to be an artist and has dedicated her working life to looking at and thinking about painting. Thirty productive years on (and now a midcareer artist) she continues to be co

George Tillianakis is many things all at once: video artist, composer, musician, performer, curator, collaborator, educator, facilitator. Despite the collaborative energy vital to these pursuits, he is fiercely independent. A lone wolf with a singula

Pale, bottle green and grey Eucalyptus leaves are bundled into fabric and tightly bound. In the cool season, muhlu, the fabric is boiled in water for an hour, and in the hot season, garwarrn, when it is too warm for a fire, the bundle is placed in a

Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at once both everywhere, and nowhere. An inveterate traveller since his youth, his insatiable curiosity for new experiences drives his art and desire to tell stories, connecting the threads of history and pl

While he may not be a household name, Craig Tuffin is a well-known identity in photography and teaching circles. Alongside two decades of practice as a commercial photographer, his work with nineteenth century photographic techniques and processes ha

Everyone remembers epiphanies. They’re epiphanies! Whether they hit you in the mind, or in the body (or spirit), they are undeniable moments, sustained or fleeting, of deep connection to everything at once: every cog clicks, every synapse sparks. Rev

A mindscape, by definition, is a panorama created within a person’s imagination. A mental landscape. But also importantly, it’s one that is capable of being viewed by someone else. This begins a convergence of two perspectives: the creator whose mind

Fahy Bottrell is one of the great originals of Australian art. There is little public evidence of her work – two major tapestries commissioned for the New South Wales Parliament House, a mural in the Consolidated Press building in Park Street – but t

In a career spanning over six decades, Gareth Sansom has garnered a reputation for being something of an iconoclast. Despite the perception that has clung to him for much of his career, Sansom was never interested in being recognised as some sort of

Dr. B. Marika was a very great Australian, a premier artist and fierce negotiator. She came from Yirrkala, North East Arnhem Land, the home of the Yolngu peoples. She pioneered Yolngu women’s art in many fields and by the time of her death in July 20

The inimitable Helmut Newton was a consummately skilled photographer, but his images are compelling for more than their opulent carefully chosen models and locations. Sometimes lush, sometimes a window into extreme wealth, and sometimes vertigo induc

I met with Pulie at a time of in-between: when our social lives were part-online and part-in-person, at the end of one year and the start of a new one. On Zoom, she shared the narrative of her artistic practice from its early conception up until now.

Kate Scardifield, 07–Canis Major (wind instrument 2) 34°46’18.3”S 150°49’23.8”E Studies In Semaphore And Signalling, 2019, sailcloth, rip-stop nylon, repurposed parachute silk, thread, dimensions variable, photographed by Robin Hearfield, courtesy th

Our practice plays with the changing nature of cultural capital by pitting the sacredness and precariousness of the “live” in performance against ways of commodifying it and creating surplus value through ongoing forms of paratextual presence, both o

Chiharu Shiota was born in Osaka, Japan in 1972. Her parents came from the rural prefecture Kochi. In the summer they would take Shiota and her two brothers to her grandmother’s grave, which she would tend by removing the embedded weeds whose entangl

WIN an artwork by SALVATORE 48 ZOFREA Subscribe to Artist Profile before 26 May 2022 to go into the draw to WIN Study for the Day Cycle I valued at $1,750.00 Salvatore Zofrea, Study for the Day Cycle I, 2021, watercolour, paper, 26 × 22 cm Visit arti