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Carrie Miller writes… The Blue Mountains-based artist Locust Jones is currently producing 20 and 30 metre long artworks on continuous rolls of paper that tread the fault line between traditionaldrawing and painting – work that is both graphic but with
From Carrie Miller… It’s little more than a truism to say that Sam Leach’s exquisitely rendered paintings of animals are beautiful. But they’re more than simply beautiful representations of nature – they’re also allusions to what such representations suggest about
From Carrie Miller… Too often issues of art and ethics get plugged into the broader moral panics that are endlessly swirled around by the cultural leaf blower we call the mass media – that noisy, pointless, impotent machine. While artists
Performing for the Camera, curated by Kelly Doley and Diana Smith, is currently showing at Firstdraft until August 2nd. An impressive collection of pieces by artists working at the intersection of video and performance, we asked Diana Smith about the
The Art Life‘s special on The Biennale of Sydney goes to air on ABC1 on Tuesday July 22 at 10pm. We feature a number of interviews but due to the constraints of the documentary’s 27 minute duration those conversations have
Adelaide-based artist Deidre But-Husaim entered a painting into the “Churchie“. With $10k prize money it’s an attractive purse… but certain policies of the exhibition organisers prompted the artist to take a stand against discrimination and make her feelings public… What’s
Over the last few years John A Douglas has been exhibiting his ongoing Screen Test series in various artist run galleries. His latest work is now on show in the ambitious exhibition Screen Test [Americana/Australiana] – Fragments and Stills at
For her latest exhibition Cash Brown has created a series of paintings based on Gustav Courbet‘s infamous Origin Of The World. On show until April 22 at Robin Gibson Gallery, this 142 year old image – and Brown’s treatment of
From Brian Johns Opening at the Wilson Street Gallery on 29 March is The Ship of Fools by Newtown identity and artist of renown Bill Brown. Currently a lecturer at the National Art School, Brown has been exhibiting since the
After kicking off the 2008 exhibition year at Artspace, Lily Hibberd‘s Bordertown installation recently opened at Melbourne’s Conical Inc where it will be on show until March 29. The Art Life spoke with Hibberd in Melbourne. Lily Hibberd, Bordertown, 2008.Installation