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.

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

CINDERELLA MAN, ARCHIE MOORE (BIGAMBUL-KAMILAROI) • I’m a stranger in my country I’m a stranger in my land Today to somewhere, no account Tomorrow, something grand, Vic Simms of La Perouse, The Loner, 1973.

MADELEINE PFULL FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Ken Unsworth The Maestro in His Nineties • From the early performances of the 1970s, to the hugely popular suspended stone circles, to the installations that incorporate a sense of theatrically, to the “popera” collaborations with the Australian Dance Artists, to the large-scale paintings, Ken Unsworth continues to offer us a disturbing and uncompromising view of our shared humanity.B

MIA BOE • Mia Boe’s surreal and compelling paintings are saturated with deeply philosophical and political issues that speak to the heart of contemporary Australian culture.

TEO TRELOAR DRAWING WITHOUT AN ERASER • Teo Treloar prefers drawing with graphite as it is elemental and cosmological. Its carbon composition was born in the stars and supernovas, and is an essential element for all life on earth. Treloar is fascinated by the idea that you can make art with something that is contained in all living things.

Campbell Robertson-Swann

GABRIELLA HIRST BODY GARDEN

ALWAYS REKOSPECTIVE

JO CHEW STITCHES HELD FAST BY A BRUSH • For Tasmanian painter Jo Chew, the house is a powerful metaphor.

NICK COLLERSON • As a boy, Collerson would listen eagerly as his grandfather recited Robert Burns’ poem To a Mouse in a feigned Scottish accent. “Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, /O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!” Hatched here was his lifelong love of poetry and the poetic. As I chat to the artist in his Marrickville studio, our conversation plunges in and out of painting and poetry as if they were one. Perhaps, indeed, they are.

INSIGHT

What is an artist supposed to do with all this?

Raising the bar for Sydney Contemporary • “We can’t wait to welcome collectors and art lovers to enjoy the fair this September, which truly will be one not to miss.” Zoe Paulsen, 2024.

High Spirits at Sydney Contemporary

The Pieces of an Artwork and an Artist • In a world full of unique artists, Joshua Yeldham still feels singular. The borders of life and the studio seem to continually blur together in the artist’s work. This September, Yeldham’s new paintings, sculptures, and photographs will be premiered across Sydney Contemporary, and Arthouse, Sydney.

OLSEN Gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2024 • From Gija Country in the Kimberley to inner city bars over east, and from the comfort of home to the secret life of birds, OLSEN Gallery brings together five artists whose works and styles differ greatly, but who are united by a shared interest in representation.

Pathos Within the Ordinary • Graeme Drendel makes his debut at Sydney Contemporary with a new body of work, Static and Silence. Many of the artist’s works contain references to his formative years spent in the small town of Timberoo, south west of Ouyen, in Victoria’s Mallee region. The predominant industry in the area is dryland agriculture, which can be a precarious existence for the farming communities established there.

The Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Booth

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