“Recently, Brennan has been listening to cosmology and astrophysics podcasts while painting and she has described the way in which the study of space – its structure, the history of
the universe – is rooted in mathematics and science despite its overarching bizarreness and ultimate unknowability. “
Imagine you want to view some of the spectacular photographs that the Perseverance Mars rover took of the red planet. You consult the NASA website and, in a flash, you’re scrolling through its offerings. But that same flash describes your experience of the images. You see them on your screen and then you don’t.
Read More“…The artist’s projected outlines, which multiply, repeat, and gently loop, can be interpreted as visualizations of her shattered sense of subjectivity. The work is both literally and pictorially an attempt by O’Dempsey to maintain an artistic identity while also filling the shifting roles of daughter, nurse, sibling, administrator.”
Read MoreThe act of human selection, where stones, wood or paper are chosen for their symbolic significance, consciously arranged on a table for artistic contemplation, holds its origins in the Dutch and Flemish tradition of stilleven.
Read More“How do we reflect on art? And how do we reflect on the sensuous in art? Painting for some is an art activity, others a profession, some a hobby, and for a few it is a life—or life force. Natalie Lavelle is one of the latter. For Lavelle, painting is so central to her personhood..”
Read More“To view an Angela Brennan painting is to be embraced by colour. The artist’s iconic combinations of radiating hues and soft forms are atmospheric, an effect enhanced by their often immersive scale. It is almost as if you can breathe them in. To be in their presence is to be acutely aware of your own body..”
Read MoreAssembled figure towers over,
made of whirlwind figure submerged,
tears two colours shredded stream pulls down,
half head, shrapnel floats fast,
centered in mirror image insect, woman centered in stream…
“Blocking out the majority of his canvas, Simon Degroot paints a large, delightfully pink and deliberately off-kilter asterisk. Slowly tracing its contours reveals a playful tension between the digital perfection of its source (the little star of typography) and the human error of the artist’s hand..”
Read More“The last years have been disruptive. The isolation and alienation of the pandemic upended our understanding as to how the life we knew would foreseeably unfold. At least for a short moment there was a glimmer…”
Read More“Brown. Blue. White. Natalie Lavelle’s newest body of work exclusively uses these colors. Each conjures the natural world: dark handfuls of dirt, midday skies, the ocean’s depths, and a landscape lost to a thick Winter’s snowstorm.”
Read More“The afternoon is white and hot. Underneath the gabled roof of Ian Friend’s Californian Bungalow home, a soft breeze passes through. His studio, which takes residence in the front…”
Read More“For Indonesian-born, Sydney-based artist Jumaadi, active audience participation forms a key part of his artistic practice, whether that be through engaging with his entertaining shadow puppet performances...”
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