Tag Archive for: Artist Profile

Cool Hunter Predictions: Carlene West

Carlene West was one of the first Spinifex artists to embrace the paintbrush and the solo exhibition was a timely testament to her artistic maturity, ambition, adaptability and individual talent.

John Pule: Time Will Tell

Throughout his career, John Pule has developed his own language of motifs and figurative elements anchored in the history and mythology of his birthplace Niue, an island country in the South Pacific.

Peter Daverington: The bewildering spectacle

Peter Daverington adeptly makes use of a wide range of pictorial languages in his art. For him, it’s like looking at life from multiple viewpoints simultaneously.

Lisa Uhl: The roots run deep

Jane O’Sullivan talks to Lisa Uhl about her passion for painting the distinct desert walnut trees of her family’s stories.

Artist Profile: Alex Seton

Over the last few years, Alex Seton has through his marble works engaged in one of the most hotly debated Australian political issues of recent times – asylum seekers.

Arlo Mountford: A Path Less Travelled

Arlo Mountford’s animated works reconceptualise an understood history of art by asking us to look at what we know and experience it in new and unexpected ways.

Azadeh Akhlaghi: An eye witness in Iran

Azadeh Akhlaghi’s photographic works are a compelling and enduring response to Iran’s past, capturing moments in time in a vivid and exceptionally present way.

Juz Kitson: A Fine Balance

Juz Kitson uses the grace and elegance of fine porcelain to depict grotesque and abject subjects. She explores the brutality of nature, decay and intestinal and sexual parts of bodies.

Stieg Persson: The Tastemaker

In his new work, painter Stieg Persson takes aim at his most controversial topic yet: Goji berries. He talks to Alison Kubler about his take on contemporary food culture and why it’s earned him so many enemies.

Melissa Coote: Heart in Hand

Melissa Coote is experimenting with sculpture, producing cast bronzes of a bull’s heart. As Chloé Wolifson discovers, it is perhaps not so surprising a direction from an artist whose practice involves building up and scraping back.