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![Subterranean homesick alien: Christian Flynn’s other worlds](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-outerspace-connection-I-and-II-18.5-x-14.5-2019-1140x666.jpg)
Christian Flynn on his latest exhibition, alien worlds, and the enigma of the obelisk…
![Steve Warburton: history, ambiguity, monuments](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/58033077_2294711210551993_7534200865792458752_n-555x375.jpg)
In advance of his new solo show at Melbourne’s Tacit gallery, Steve Warburton talks about ambiguity, metaphor and history…
![Long live the new flesh: Lisa McCleary’s sci-fi surfaces](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/thumbnail_Naofa_Sacred_2018_22.5-x-13_oil-on-aluminum-555x375.jpg)
Lisa McCleary discusses her upcoming solos show at Gallery MC, eroticism, surfaces, sci-fi and insane amounts of hard work…
![Interview: Monika Behrens’ thinking images](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Big_HuntingTrophyI-555x375.jpg)
“With my work, I propose that floral paintings involve the mirroring of time and dimensions beyond their symbols and icons.”
![A Short History of Everything: the painted world of Dong Yuan](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2010.011-Dong-Yuan-Daily-Scenes-2009-oil-on-canvas-42-pieces-each-55-x-40-cm-1-555x375.jpg)
Dong Yuan loves Da Vinci and Duchamp equally. In these works, we see the results of such an apparently unlikely juxtaposition: Dada’s love of the absurd and playful meets the beauty and virtuoso technique of the old master.
![New Work Friday #218](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Deborah-Marks_State-of-Grace_oil-on-canvas_2016_1x1.10m-555x375.jpg)
“I have an ongoing fascination with the outsider position, where many of us unintentionally find ourselves. For an immigrant culture such as Australia’s, there is an implicit sense of liminality that derives from not only the unknown future but also the uncertain past.”
![New Work Friday #214](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Sam-Holt_Happy-as-a-pig-in-mud-a-pig-stuck-in-the-mud-that-is_2016-555x375.jpg)
“Sam Holt’s painting has developed an intensity and muscularity beyond the pared back gestural minimalist approach of former works. The palette has shifted from the pink, blue, green spectrum to a reduced, more neutral, not-quite monochrome range of blacks, white, grey, sand and silver.”
![Why A Mountain: An Interview with Peter Daverington](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Jacobs-Tent-on-his-descent-to-the-underworld_oil-on-linen_92x122-555x375.jpg)
“Everything felt so cool and consolidated like there was some agreement amongst the art establishment of what is serious and what is not. Romantic Landscape painting was literally a no go zone, career suicide, so that appealed to me. What happened though is that I really came to love it and through some curious fate I ended up living in the Hudson Valley.”