Jamie Preisz describes his style with a paintbrush as “contemporary realism”, and his wardrobe as “art slob chic.” I hang out with Jamie and his cherry red 1963 Alpine Sunbeam for a night and asked him where it all began, who he’s following, and where he is headed. Oh, and what he wears to paint and to art parties. For Threads, for Urban List.
Read MoreAll in all, it’s just another brick… on the floor? From Carl Andre’s infamous ‘pile of bricks’ to now, a bit of history on bricks and brickwork in art. For Yellowtrace in partnership with Brickworks.
Read MoreIt's a month to experience art en masse; there will be huge installations by artists from across the globe as well as new work from local creatives and the local businesses and initiatives colouring the art scene every day in Sydney. For Broadsheet.
Read MoreOccasionally our city can feel a little grey – infinite roadworks and building sites, traffic, trains or lack of trains, and urban sprawl. Happily, though, a number of colourful exhibitions are happening in galleries across the city this month, offering a little respite and bringing with it the vibrancy of summer.
Read MoreThis season, Sydney is playing host to Rembrandt and a set of his Dutch peers, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, iconic New York City photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and Danish-Icelandic master of colour and light Olafur Eliasson – in the form of contemporary ballet. Though, once you've visited the blockbusters—there's still more art to see. For Broadsheet Sydney.
Read MoreDecades later, at lunch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with Adam Cullen to celebrate his 2000 Archibald triumph, Cullen queried his older peer as to whether it was true that Greenberg had once identified Watkins as the greatest painter Australia had to offer. For VAULT Magazine.
Read More“I will paint, as I have always done, my father’s Country. It is my tjukurpa, my memories, my Country.” Introducing the incredible Pepai Jangala Carroll for Art Collector Magazine.
Read MoreWhat began as an artistic exploration into, and meditation on, the throws of his own devastating chronic illness, has become a complex flight into the realm of life and death, science, medicine, humanity, and history. Introducing John A Douglas for Art Collector Magazine.
Read More“Photography has such a significant connection to a truth-claim, but at the same time images are so fragmented and manipulated." —Introducing Asheligh Garwood, for Art Collector Magazine.
Read MoreJamaican born and a Harlem local, Ward is deeply absorbed in the potential of art and language—in meaning layered on thick via choice materials, discarded objects, symbols—and a considered exercise of semantics. Another of my favourite interviews, with artist Nari Ward for MUSEUM.
Read MoreGraham Fletcher’s mid-century modern settings are architectural, painterly, and richly coloured—burnt oranges and plaid, alongside Arne Jacobson and Ray and Charles Eames furnishings. Exhibition catalogue text for Sophie Gannon Gallery.
Read MoreInstagram has become an indispensable tool for artists, curators, and gallerists alike—but how is it affecting our visual literacy in the process? I discussed the topic with Alexie Glass-Kantor, Joseph Allen Shea, Colin Snapp, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Daniel McKewan for VAULT.
Read MoreAhead of La Puissance, an exhibition of all female artists created by PAR FEMME in collaboration with artist and curator Amy Finlayson from The Fin Collection, I unstitched a little of the powerful past and present of art by women. For PAR FEMME.
Read More“I was motivated to share my collection because of a belief that many museums in Australia do not provide the public with the opportunity to view sufficient international contemporary art,” says Danny Goldberg OAM, chairman of private equity firm Dakota Capital, and one of the country’s avid collectors. On private collections on show in Sydney for Broadsheet.
Read MorePerhaps somewhat symbolically, it’s Barton’s relentless, fiery imagination that has forever been the spark and the burning hot core of her work. On Del Kathryn Barton for VAULT Magazine.
Read MoreFor Huseyin Sami, paint is an elastic material — the action of painting an experimental, novel landscape. Exhibition catalogue text for Sophie Gannon Gallery.
Read MoreDistinct from the Sydney Biennale and the city’s other multi-venue art events, the idea is to promote and endorse Australian art and artists. Maybe more emblematically too, The National hopes to ignite new conversation on contemporary nationhood, and the anxieties of identity, real or imagined, through the eyes of artists. On the first iteration of The National exhibition, for Broadsheet.
Read MoreUsing data compiled from over 100 sources, New York-based architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have created EXIT — a 360-degree video experience that unravels the reality of refugees and global migration, number by number. For Indesign.
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