Artist Profile

Artist Profile is a fresh, imaginative magazine recording the personalities of leading artists and rising art stars that fill the visual arts and inspire a new generation of art lover. The magazine features intimate studio portraits, artists' working environments, leading opinion writers, previews of major public gallery exhibitions, feature articles on international artists and events, book reviews and more.

Artist Profile

EDITOR’S NOTE • Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work.

ISSUE The Law of Emoji

Christopher Bassi Thinking about Archipelagic Painting • Meriam and Yupungathi artist, Christopher Bassi, coalesces an impressive reservoir of cultural references and knowledge to paint his place in this world. Here, Adam Ford explores the archipelagic thinking behind Bassi’s practice and uncovers a painterly world of oily and watery multiplicities.

JULIE RRAP Bodies in Time • Julie Rrap moves across media in her explorations of the body and performativity. From her seminal Disclosures: A Photographic Construct of 1982 which contested the photographic gaze to newly produced video work and monumental bronze sculpture. Rrap re-asserts the woman’s body into art and history across a lifetime, exploring the limits and potentiality of each medium in doing so.

LEE UFAN • Lee Ufan is a distinguished painter, sculptor, poet, writer, and theorist who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important living artists today. His rigorous practice spans more than six decades, with a consistent artistic process that focuses on the balance between the artwork, the viewer, and the space they occupy.

NINA SANADZE MONUMENTS & CONSEQUENCES • Concurrent exhibitions in Melbourne demonstrate the scale and emotive impact of Nina Sanadze’s sculptural work. Since immigrating to Australia in 1996, she has developed an artistic discourse that explores the symbolic and thematic power underlying the creation of statuary and architecture for public places. Across the centuries and today, the ideas and inequalities such structures can perpetuate have the ability to polarise.

GARY DEIRMENDJIAN PROVOCATIVE INTERVENTIONS • Deirmendjian encourages curiosity through provocative interruptions within the urban environment, presented in both digital and physical realms. The works within his multifaceted practice remain unresolved until interacted with by fellow humans. This dialogue embodies a kind of “truth telling,” that calls audiences to adopt a keen curiosity and broadened perspective of the everyday.

Ebony Truscott • Ebony Truscott’s still life paintings offer a rare and profound attention to everyday objects.

SUSIE CHOI IN PURSUIT OF IMPERFECTION • For Sydney artist Susie Choi, making art is an act of reclamation, and reconnection.

ABDULLAH M.I. SYED • Abdullah M. I. Syed’s multidisciplinary and multivalent art practice speaks to contemporary conditions while resonating with earlier and geographically diverse episodes in art history. Although he has a deep affection for the dramatic paintings of the Renaissance masters Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio, his own works are organised around modernist forms and a preoccupation with pattern and rhythm that is both formal and ideological.

NICOLA MOSS SURFACE AND PATTERN • Nicola Moss creates enveloping, intricate paintings inspired by her garden just beyond, the hinterland that surrounds, and by the far-flung public parklands of Japan.

EVERYTHING YIELDS

PROCESS The Metaphor of Staining • Emily Ebbs' soft staining technique evokes lingering trauma.

Tim Olsen and Evan Hughes Driven by Human Intelligence • Tim Olsen and Evan Hughes, whose fathers were heavyweights of the Australian art world, are collaborating on a...