Permanent Revolution
A dazzling retrospective honours Robert Jacks, one of Australia’s very special artists. Words by Paul McGillick.
A Dark Portrait of Mid-century Palm Springs: ‘MIDNIGHT MODERN’
Midnight Modern is a collection of large-scale works by Melbourne-based photographer Tom Blachford. Captured under the light of a supermoon, Classic Palm Springs mid-century architecture become the moody subject.
Design Hunter Q+A: Studio Pardon
With their home as their studio, their studio their home, the Studio Pardon, Lise and Ben, are a true Design Hunters. Here we talk teddy bears and pastry, not sitting and the DAA…
Discovering place by painting: Ben Quilty on exhibition ‘Hill End’
Ben Quilty invites three mates, artists Guy Maestri, Luke Sciberras and Robert Malherbe, to retrace the steps of the greats – Russell Drysdale, Margaret Olley, John Olsen and Brett Whiteley to the former gold-mining town of Hill End.
Art that changes your experience of place
Site-specific art – as its name suggests – is intrinsically intertwined with place. Informed by a pre-existing landscape or built into one, art and place alter each other. We delve into the practice and talk to the artists who create it.
Site-Specific Art: Emma Coulter
Emma Coulter’s site-specific work has a direct link with her background in painting and interior architecture. Blending the two lets her explore the ideas that overlap between them, de-constructing and re-constructing a space to using a refined palette to create something new.
SITE-SPECIFIC ART: Klara
Klara is a Melbourne-based street and studio artist, combining painting, illustration, paste-ups, stencil, installation and more. For Klara, the more she delves into her practise, the more site-specific it becomes. We find out why.
SITE-SPECIFIC ART: Suki
For Suki, site-specific art can work both ways; sometimes the site comes first and other times it’s the idea. Here is her take on art that alters our experience of place.
SITE-SPECIFIC ART: KORBAN/FLAUBERT
This Sydney-based duo works across design and sculpture, producing furniture, sculpture, screens and installations. Often working within an architectural project, their work demonstrates the way site-specific art is becoming more integrated into the natural landscape as well as man-made structures. We hear from Stefanie Flaubert as to how these various spaces differ and what makes them so intriguing.
Design Hunter Q + A: Emma Coulter
Currently juggling a number of projects, from a solo exhibition to creating an installation at Melbourne Indesign, Emma Coulter is one busy woman. While her roots are in Northern Ireland, Emma belongs in Melbourne now, clearly immersed in the art and design world it offers. We talk to Emma about where a background in interior architecture and painting has led her, what she can’t live without, and how a Design Hunter has nothing to do with age or income.
An Architectural Eye and An Artistic Mind
Michael Lowe is a graduate architect and fine artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. We talk to him about the “fantastic position” he is in between the designing and painting, how they cross over and one can teach the other.
Visual Feast: GEOFFREY DE GROEN EXHIBITION
At 75 years of age, Geoffrey de Groen is a grand master of Australian painting. Paul McGillick drops in on his latest milestone.