Tag Archive for: Artist Profile

Artist Profile: Makinti Napanangka

Makinti Napanangka, now over 70 years old, paints on the ground in the open air hunched over her canvas, her brushstrokes confident and instinctive. The efforts of her day’s work are eagerly sought by institutions and collectors all over the world. Jennifer Isaacs visited this prominent desert painter’s remote home base at Kintore, to watch her work.

Artist Profile: Pilar Mata Dupont

Reflecting on a haunting familial past, Pilar Mata Dupont grapples with the fractured narrative of her ancestry in dark, beautiful and theatrical images.

Artist Profile: Judy Darragh

In forms from photography to installation, Judy Darragh takes us into spaces of both memory and physical experience, along the way combining the social, political and personal.

Artist Profile: Jonathan Dalton

Challenging us to decipher what is real and what is unreal, Jonathan Dalton asks us to keep our critical thinking at the fore.

Artist Profile: Joan Ross

In works that comment on collecting, both institutional and personal, Joan Ross attempts a rewrite of history, but in a witty, self-effacing way.

Collector’s Dossier: Guy Warren

A centenarian and a visionary, Guy Warren has long been counted among the greats of Australian art, and he’s not finished yet.

Artist Profile: Gemma Smith

Gemma Smith is a gamer. She courts us into her arena, controls us and outwits us before changing the game we didn’t even know we were playing.

Artist Profile: Dino Wilson

Weaving tradition with innovation, Dino Wilson tells old stories in new and highly sought-after ways.

Artist Profile: Andrew Hazewinkel

An ancient city, a modern life. The work of Andrew Hazewinkel arrives at a liminal space between the folds of time.

Collector’s Dossier: Judy Watson

It’s rare to find the work of an artist so prolific remain as considered, poetic, and important as that of Judy Watson.