Vincent Namatjira Ocula Magazine

‘If a painting is making me laugh while I’m working on it, then I know there is something there, like a spark that’s going to get people interested.’

It's not a journal curating an exhibition; rather it's a collaboration between an exhibition and a journal at a metaphorical level.

Claus Stangl's portrait of Taika Waititi won the Packing Room Prize, which is chosen by staff who receive, unpack, and hang works by the Archibald Prize finalists.

The South Australian sculptor won AU $100,000 for her work 'Edges of Excess'.

Namatjira is the first Aboriginal Australian to win the prize in its 99-year history.

Held at the Southbank Arts Precinct, Melbourne Art Week returns with fanfare and slight trepidation between 30 July and 5 August 2018.

Painting some humour into a serious event or an important person let’s you be in a little bit of control again, you can get a little bit of cheeky revenge.