Mysteries come in many forms and don’t always issue from the darkness. The light-filled pictorial universe that Cypriot-born, London-educated Andrew Christofides has prospected since the 1980s harbours certain mysteries, even though his paintings seem to be governed by decidedly rational precepts. Evolving Hierarchies, his current exhibition at King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, is a […] The post Verified Mysteries appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Hovering, nine metres above me on wiry legs of steely elegance Maman, 1999, Louise Bourgeois’ celebrated spider sculpture, a metaphor for her mother, greets me as I arrive at the AGNSW forecourt. Momentarily, Maman pulls me into a play of scale, a frequent tactic in Bourgeois’ work. I become aware of my size in comparison […] The post Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Accompanied by artist and Orange’s director Brad Hammond, and photographer Craig Potton, he helicoptered onto the mountain ranges. It was his second trip with Potton and a guide, where they spent days documenting and climbing in the area. Growing up in New Zealand, Macleod was attracted to the adrenaline rush of climbing from the age […] The post Euan Macleod: Flux appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Over coffee and lamingtons (everyday suburban fare appropriate to the source material of much of her work) we discuss, in no particular order, flies, trompe l’œil, housework: “often when I’m painting I’m thinking of cleaning, and when I’m cleaning I’m thinking of painting,” op shop discoveries, dog walking, binging on Netflix, and bi-annual hard rubbish […] The post Nadine Christensen appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Looking back over my artistic practice, I can clearly see the signposts leading to what I’m making in the studio today. In recent years, I have been playing with cycles of creation and destruction: casting my body in gypsum and concrete, smashing these casts into pieces, and reforming them into new sculptural forms to be […] The post Owen Leong appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Without fanfare, a small group of works by an important American artist of the twentieth century were given a rare showing in Sydney last month. Five drawings by James Castle set the tone of The Enclave, Dutton at Darren Knight Gallery, an exhibition that had nothing to do with the Leader of the Opposition but […] The post The Aura of the Outsider appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

“Smashing the frame,” “moving past the border,” and “breaking out of our structures” are some of the expressions Kellie O’Dempsey uses to describe her need to represent or grasp at constant change. Growing up in pubs that her parents managed in regional Victoria meant living and working amongst a daily swirl of high-pressure adult, predominantly […] The post A Performative Entanglement: The Art of Kellie O’Dempsey appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

The inscription could not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. An editioned print from the 1990s, titled Blind Obedience, was made by opening the thesaurus and looking up the word “Synonymous,” which yielded the word “Equivalent,” which in turn yielded the word […] The post Mike Parr: Blind Obedience appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Mein began creating “textile pictures” in 1977, applying an almost forensic level of detail to her exploration of the natural world. She eschewed the “quintessential” faunal imagery, preferring to focus on wetland and coastal species, birds, invertebrates, and the close observation of their diverse habitats. “I like to portray those overlooked creatures that people don’t […] The post Annemieke Mein: A Life’s Work appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more

Chris Dyson has spent the better part of fifty years producing a prolific body of work, including drawings, paintings, and sculptures. However, there is scant evidence of his legacy on the internet; a rare and refreshing phenomenon in the age of the “career artist,” and emblematic of Dyson’s general renegade spirit and inclination to follow […] The post Chris Dyson appeared first on Artist Profile ..read more