Tag: Australia
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Janet Laurence – interview: ‘White Australians didn’t have a way of seeing our landscape’
A leading contemporary artist in Australia, Laurence talks about colonialisation and using her art to address the fragility of nature and climate change
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Berenice Carrington: ‘I think of the naturalistic style of my drawing as empathetic realism’
The artist, who describes her work as ethnographic drawing, explains how her practice began when she worked with Aboriginal people in Australia and draws similarities between that continent and Shetland, where she now lives
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Anthony Luvera – interview: ‘Photography is a way of telling stories about the world’
Luvera is the editor of Photography for Whom?, a new journal focusing on community photography projects. Here, he talks about lesser-known works from a movement that began in the 1970s, as well as contemporary practices
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Damien Coulthard: Songlines XXX, Adnyamathanha Yarta – ‘It’s exciting when you feel a connection with ancestral lands’
To mark its 30th anniversary, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is showing the Australian artist Damien Coulthard. Here, he talks about painting the creation stories of his people, the Adnyamathanha
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Oceania
A haunting exhibition that will transport those visiting the Royal Academy of Arts to a world of Pacific gods and powerful ancestors
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Peter Hill: ‘I have a love for the solitude of lighthouses at one extreme and the energy of Chicago or Berlin at the other’
The artist talks about his creation of a fictional museum, his current lecture tour, Fake News + Superfictions, and the artists who have influenced him
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GW Bot interview: ‘Living and working in Australia has meant coming to terms with the country in one’s own way’
The signs and symbols that have developed in Bot’s work, which she calls “glyphs”, form a calligraphic language, from which she creates a visual poetry. Her work was included in the Royal Academy’s exhibition Australia in 2013.
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Anne Graham interview: ‘The ability to see things as if for the first time is for me the essential quality necessary to make art’
Anne Graham William Wright Artist Projects, Sydney 28 August – 13 September 2014
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Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland
5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…
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Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art
Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection Museum of Arts and Design, New York 18 May-10 September 2006 The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobby and back again.…
