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Femme Noir and the mysterious realism of artist Dianne Gall
Contemporary artist Dianne Gall is an artist whose realism is evidenced in both the meticulous detail of her paintings and in the attributes of her subjects, her glamorous femme fatales. Inspired by...
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How to Live & How to Die with Jewelry & Taxidermy Artist Julia deVille
Creativity arises where polarities co-exist. The art of Julia deVille exists in the space between extremes. A vegetarian whose art is taxidermied animals. Conscious of being an animal rights activist...
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Embracing the taboo of being an artist mother
Four women artists have been drawn together spontaneously in a group exhibition “… and then there were five” showing in Melbourne at fortyfivedownstairs. Each are successful artists in their own right...
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Louise Bourgeois, recognizing the self, the artist’s way
Louise Bourgeois: Late Works curated by Jason Smith “Art is a way of recognizing oneself” – Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) These words are at the core of Louise Bourgeois’ art. At the heart of it, the...
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Cara-Ann Simpson, Harnessing the Northern lights
Swathing vistas of dancing light appearing holographically around the northern hemisphere, known as the Aurora Borealis are created by energetically charged particles originating in the solar winds and...
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Heidi Yardley looking through the Glass Psyche
Australian artist Heidi Yardley goes through the looking glass darkly in her new exhibition Glass Psyche. Through the surreal language of a haunted imagination, an alternative other world appears like...
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Carnival or Culture in the art of Jacqui Stockdale
Artist Jacqui Stockdale explores the enigma that is the diversity of humanity in works that mask and unmask our cultural mores, belief systems, superstitions, rituals, identity and means of belonging....
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Megan Evans, Owning her Colonial Past
image above: Megan Evans, Bleeding Chandelier, 2017, Squatters and Savages exhibition installation at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, photograph by Mathew Stanton *Acknowledgement of country at bottom of...
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The Moving Impulses of Hannah Quinlivan
Revealing the hidden architectures of societal structures that contain and restrain our emotional lives and psychological selves, Hannah Quinlivan navigates a multidimensional universe of forms and...
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Know My Name, Campaign for Gender Equality
Gender equality is on the agenda. In the wake of #MeToo, #TimesUp and global Women’s Marches, the conversation about power imbalance and equality is rippling through the art world. Following on from...
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