Artist Profile

STORY FULVIA MANTELLI MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH HONOR FREEMAN’S work was her onoffon series (2002-2009) of replica light switches and power points that playfully subverted shared spaces in Adelaide’s West End. They went on to grace discreet nooks from

PREVIEW TED SNELL WHEN LONGTIME DIRECTOR OF The Samstag Museum of Art, Erica Green, was given the opportunity to curate the Adelaide Biennial for 2018, her immediate response was to talk with the artists whose work mattered to her. “My curatorial met

STORY BRIDGET MACLEOD PHOTOGRAPHER MICK RICHARDS “People interest me the most. Their cultural backgrounds, views on life, motives, fears, aspirations and so on. And also how these elements help shape history and events. YOU ARE WORKING TOWARDS AN EXH

STORY KATRINA NOORBERGEN THE ORIGINAL 1968 EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL Gallery of Victoria, The Field, attempted to align Australian art with international modernist trends. Despite not receiving a formal art education, you had a dedicated awareness o

MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN THIS issue of Artist Profile are concerned with the evolving nature of artists’ practices and the cycle of curatorial presentations. The daily uncertainty of making art is matched by the need for an audience to receive their a

ESSAY JOHN MCDONALD “The aim is to hold four to five Defiance exhibitions per year, while handing over “complete curatorial control” for all other shows. CAMPBELL ROBERTSON-SWANN and Lauren Harvey, art dealers with a sense of history, have taken over

I’VE NEVER BEEN THE KIND OF artist who sits idle waiting for inspiration to strike. My art practice is exactly that, a daily practice that is honed through reiteration. I work out my ideas through making, not the other way around. This is why I make.

STORY LOUISE MARTIN-CHEW PHOTOGRAPHER MICK RICHARDS LATE IN 2017, ARTIST PROFILE VISITED GORDON Shepherdson in suburban Brisbane. He is now frail, and has recently moved into a nursing home facility, but his studio remains as it was. Gordon’s son, Na

STORY LOUELLA HAYES YOU’VE BEEN TRAVELLING FOR A FELLOWSHIP? Yes, I was awarded the Create NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) in 2016, which took me to New York and Milan to view specific collections and works, followed by time in Berlin to work w

REVIEW LUCY STRANGER EPIC IN SCALE AND EPHEMERAL in presence, David Serisier’s exhibition, White Dogs, Hoar Frost, Silver + Gold, brings a new angle and light to his practice, and an exciting vision of the Central West to Bathurst Regional Art Galler

MODERATORS KON GOURIOTIS, LUCY STRANGER LUCY: JUSTINE, DID YOU EXPECT CONTROVERSY? Justine: I knew there wouldn’t be other portraits like mine in the award. There were of course portraits that obscured the face, or rendered somebody quite vaguely. My

MY ART PRACTICE EXCAVATES THE complexities of Australian identity and place by responding to mundane rural and suburban environments. I am drawn to the quirkiness of the Australian landscape and am interested in how homes and streetscapes function as

STORY KON GOURIOTIS WHEN WERE YOU DRAWN TO ART? Probably always, but I did not realise it had a name until later in high school. As a child I liked to write long compositions and some poetry. How important has music been to your work? I consider musi

Alana Collins I STARTED WORKING WITH LINE BY accident. During art school I began making abstract pieces with graphite pencils. I wanted to experiment with pencil and see what it was capable of. I rarely planned a drawing, rather I would just let it u

STORY LUCY STRANGER PHOTOGRAPHER MICK RICHARDS “One of the reasons I like working from a small size to a larger size like this is that it constantly challenges me. You don’t get into a comfort zone, the cross-referencing is a challenge. WHAT PROMPTED

STORY CAMILLA WAGSTAFF IN AN INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE IN SYDNEY’S Alexandria, a slice of the Western Desert radiates and shimmers off an unstretched canvas in the centre of the room. It’s a seductive, optical ballet that characterises the work of Indigen

STORY KON GOURIOTIS PHOTOGRAPHER STEPHEN OXENBURY WHAT WERE THE YOUNGER DALE FRANK’S INTERESTS? David Bowie, Lou Reed, Television’s album Marquee Moon, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, Beethoven, geology, geography, maps of all kinds, European history, Napole

STORY JUDITH PUGH BOB MARCHANT WAS BORN IN VICTORIA’S FLAT Wimmera country. As a child, he was always drawing, at home and in primary school in Dimboola. His talent was recognised by the art teacher, watercolourist Ella Service, when he arrived at Nh

REVIEW JELLE VAN DEN BERG 3RD TAMWORTH TEXTILE Triennial 2017, curated by Glenn Barkley, emphasises Tamworth Regional Gallery’s focus on textile art, both from a national and local perspective. Textile arts are not easily classified as art or craft;