After all these years away, what do you think you still carry with you from Australia?When I was growing up in Brisbane I saw a lot of Indigenous art, not in contemporary art institutions but in anthropological contexts such as the Queensland Museum. I was much more interested in what I was seeing there than European painting, which just left me...

When we speak a few weeks out from Julian Hooper’s September exhibition at Ivan Anthony in Auckland, he still hasn’t settled on a title for the show. We both agree that a good title can’t be forced. It becomes part of the artwork, adding to the layers of meaning, but as Hooper explains, a good title doesn’t 'blow the cover' of thework. It is...

Working across sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking, Andrzej Zieliński's practice challenges the myth of contemporary technological innovation. His work depicts electronic devices – phones, computers, shredders, fax machines – and addresses the many contradictions embedded in our relationships to them, which are cutting-edge one moment and...

Home is a loaded word. It is more than just a place of residence; it is a psychological and emotional connection to a locale, a lifestyle, to everyday experience, to family, and to friends. The complexity and interconnectedness of our understanding of the concept of 'home' is consolidated for Teelah George when she has the opportunity to...

Currently, Belem Lett's paintings sit at that point between figuration and abstraction. The work shifts away from Lett's focus on borders to examine the subject itself. He's interested in imperfect symmetry, which he investigates through approximation. By attempting to mirror each work on two sides of the canvas, Lett inevitably introduces tiny...

Lloyd’s hyper-real portraits of unpopulated landscapes and dark highways evoke a disquieting sense of anxiety, loneliness, mystery and paranoia. They reflect his interest in film noir, science  ction and thrillers, in particular the atmospheric landscapes of Lynch and Hitchcock. Lloyd has said that 'Being in the car is like being...

Michael Taylor belongs to the generation of Sydney artists who were born in the early 1930s and who after their initial training in Sydney travelled abroad and returned to Australia with a non-figurative style. Fellow travellers include John Olsen, who is a few years older, and Dick Watkins, a few years younger.However, unlike Olsen or Watkins,...

Denise Green is feeling a little panicked. After 40 years in her Tribeca studio, the Melbourne-born painter is moving, forced out by Manhattan’s ongoing redevelopment boom. A New Yorker since 1969, when she relocated from Paris, Green has witnessed the city’s changing fortunes – she lived through the dangerous grime of seventies...

Propulsion sits at the heart of Tony Lloyd’s most recent suite of paintings, an apt force underlying both the content of his art and the trajectory of his career. Mountains rise into the clear blue sky, majestic and confident in their tectonic elevation, inching inexorably upward with sustained geological momentum. Roadways wind and stretch...

New York, Barcelona, Berlin and now Grafton.While that does sound a tad humorous, visual artist Peter Alwast is enjoying his latest residency in the Jacaranda City at the Grafton Regional Art Gallery in the lead-up to the city's prestigious biennial drawing award.