Andy Warhol is arguably the most important contemporary artist of the twentieth century. The reasons are as many as they are various but perhaps the most significant is Warhol’s use of serial imagery. By 1956, artists in London and New York were drawing upon popular media for their paintings
Australian artist Tracey Moffatt’s career is studded with firsts — from her breakthrough photo series, Something More 1989, the experimental short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy 1990, followed by her first feature beDevil 1993 (both selected for the Cannes Film
John Kelly the Australian painter and sculptor was born in Bristol and raised in Australia. Kelly has mixed Irish and English parentage and by his reckoning this birthright has given him point of difference and a ground from which he has created a body of work.
Growing
Alexander Archipenko belonged to the early twentieth century wave of Eastern European artists who moved to the West in search of freedom, economic stability, and artistic success. Archipenko quickly followed in the footsteps of other Eastern expatriate artists, taking up residence in La Ruch
Since the late 1980s, Destiny Deacon has blazed an extraordinary trail to become one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists. Deacon modestly describes herself as ‘just an old-fashioned political artist’1; however her installations, videos and photographic prints have b
Banksy’s subversive screenprints and street art point to the hypocrisy of contemporary capitalist society. He extends this anti-establishment allure by keeping his real name and identity secret, shielding himself from the limelight while allowing his works to shine.
Have a Nice
Banksy’s subversive screenprints and street art point to the hypocrisy of contemporary capitalist society. He extends this anti-establishment allure by keeping his real name and identity secret, shielding himself from the limelight while allowing his works to shine.
Have a Nice
‘Her characters are siren-like, but beneath their vulnerability, we sense resilience. Their allure turns on voyeurism; we look at them through an aperture, or a cameo, implied by the darkened edge of the print…Characters are pinioned by plot, their motives set against a castellated outline o
‘The single female nude has always been the anchor to Burton’s thinking and often the centrepiece of any one series. Her figures are out of context – isolated – as if in a drift, having put aside their motives for movement, or action. They seem about to let go, drawn necessarily to the terra
'Commenting on the potential of montage techniques to reveal truths … Walter Benjamin wrote that “the superimposed element disrupts the context in which it is inserted.” With this strategy Will Nolan is perhaps asking us to consider that the photographic image signifies itself and something