The two-metre high, three-metre-wide triptych, Sour the Boiling Honey 1991, is the work that introduced Anne Wallace to the Australian art scene. Completed at the age of just twenty-one, the work is an ambitious, early example of Wallace’s figurative painting and singular commitment to...
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By Fiona Lowry
03 Jun 2022
This painting came from a trip I took to the rainforest-clad peaks of Bunya Mountains National Park in south-east Queensland, which shelters the largest stand of ancient bunya pines in the world.
I had heard stories of the Aboriginal groups that came every three years for the bunya nut...
By Asta Cameron
03 Mar 2022
My grandfather, Albert Namatjira, his country starts from Ormiston Gorge, the Finke River and goes right down to Palm Valley. To the east of the gorges is the MacDonnell Ranges. My grandfather’s dreaming is there and it’s very important country.1...
By Catherine Baxendale
03 Mar 2022
The first aspect of Ben Quilty’s paintings that will strike any uninitiated viewer is the innate appeal of their surface. Quilty applies paint with a glorious, buttery intensity: he is clearly an artist who loves his medium. But the attraction of Quilty’s luscious impasto encompasses a certain...
By Catherine Baxendale
03 Mar 2022
The first aspect of Ben Quilty’s paintings that will strike any uninitiated viewer is the innate appeal of their surface. Quilty applies paint with a glorious, buttery intensity: he is clearly an artist who loves his medium. But the attraction of Quilty’s luscious impasto encompasses a certain...
By Anonymous
03 Mar 2022
Helen Johnson is quickly becoming one of Australia’s brightest artistic talents. Her works have been exhibited at major Australian and international institutions, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Tate Modern, both in London.
Death Painting (Knowledge Transfer Ghoul...
By Ashleigh Wilson
03 Mar 2022
He was still young, still finding his way, when Joel Elenberg shifted his gaze from painting to sculpture. Here was an ancient form of expression that carried with it the promise of new possibilities, a channel through which he could look deep into the past and imagine a world beyond his years....
By BRETT BALLARD
03 Mar 2022
David Hockney arrived in Los Angeles in 1963 to find a city that was vast and fast-moving. Against the advice of others, who insisted East not West, Hockney found a world of light and architecture, its newness marked by freeways and its setting edged by water. Amidst its people and pools Hockney...
By BRETT BALLARD
03 Mar 2022
By Tim Abdallah
03 Mar 2022
Irma Stern is one of South Africa’s best-known artists and one of a few South African painters whose reputation extends beyond the African continent. Born in 1894 and raised in Transvaal, she studied art in Germany, first at the Weimar Academy in 1913, and later briefly at the famed Bauhaus. She...