Tag: Australian Art
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...
Everything is not as it seems
GOU PEI, Chinese Fabric Artist engineers her Masterpieces, stitch by stitch, bead upon bead, golden thread and a mantle of dreams inspired by an...
Against the odds
How hard is hard? What is our mortal capacity? Artist, Mel O’Callaghan explores these questions through her dramatic Video Art currently on display at...