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Judy Watson & Helen Johnson – explore colonisation

Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends  10 September – 12 November 2022 Two of Australia’s leading and celebrated artists, Judy Watson and...

Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends 

10 September – 12 November 2022 Two of Australia’s leading and celebrated artists, Judy Watson and Helen Johnson, explore complex and varied perspectives on colonisation,...

‘I can’t think of a more timely painting’: Blak Douglas’s Moby Dickens is a deserving winner of the 2022 Archibald Prize

In 2020, the year Vincent Namatjira was awarded the Archibald for his double portrait with Adam Goodes, I was also impressed by the painting hanging...

Peter Wegner’s portrait of Guy Warren at 100 wins the 100th Archibald Prize

      Peter Wegner’s Guy Warren in his 100th Year, winner of the 2021 Archibald Prize. AGNSW/Peter Wegner/Photo Jenni Carter The artist Guy Warren gave the best summary...

At last, the arts Revolution — Archibald winners flag the end of white male dominance

Vincent Namatjira’s Stand strong for who you are, acrylic on linen, 152 x 198 cm. Photo: AGNSW/Mim Stirling The 2020 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, held...

‘The most refreshing Archibald exhibition I can remember’: the 2020 portrait prize finalists

Archibald Prize 2020 finalist Blak Douglas (aka Adam Hill), Writing in the sand, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 250 x 250 cm ©...

Sunday essay: amid a war on culture, are Australia’s art schools an endangered species?

Image: Shuttlestock The plight of art schools in Australia in recent decades is hardly breaking news. Shrinking budgets, staff cuts, amalgamations and reduced...

Sunday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism

Artists Matcham Skipper and Myra Gould on a Melbourne footpath, circa 1940.  Albert Tucker/State Library of Victoria The origin story of Australian modernism often centres around Heide –...

Whiteley, Sydney ArtStar and Baldessin.

“What it is to be human ……..Art really did matter, not to escape, but fundamentally to reflect and improve society.”   S. Grishin Sydney...

The Field re-visited

‘Summing them up as morbid or deathly, but their very primitiveness, their sledge hammer effects, reinforce this mentally; naked extreme art’ Profoundly Art-Critic G.R.Lansell...
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