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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A BIRD IN THE HAND

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Genevieve Felix Reynolds • FOR GENEVIEVE FELIX REYNOLDS, FLATTENING AND ABSTRACTION DESCRIBE THE PROCESS OF PAINTING. HER CURRENT BODY OF WORK PLAYS ON PERSPECTIVE, TRICKING THE EYE AND PROMPTING VIEWERS TO LOOK TWICE.

Christopher Zanko • DISAPPEARING RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE WAKE OF DEVELOPMENT AND GENTRIFICATION HAS INSPIRED ILLAWARRA ARTIST CHRISTOPHER ZANKO TO REMEMBER LOCAL MIGRANT AND WORKING CLASS HISTORIES. HIS LATEST WORK REPRESENTS A SUBURBAN MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY AESTHETIC THAT IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED.

Bronwyn Bancroft A Bundjalung Woman’s Story • BUNDJALUNG WOMAN DR BRONWYN BANCROFT IS AN ARTIST, ACTIVIST, MENTOR, AND WRITER. FOR THREE DECADES BANCROFT HAS EXHIBITED NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. SHE HAS BEEN A KEY PLAYER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERAL CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE BOOMALLI ABORIGINAL ARTISTS CO-OPERATIVE. IN THE 1990S SHE WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA. HER WORK IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE RECEIVED THE PRESTIGIOUS DROMKEEN MEDAL IN 2009.

BRETT GRAHAM Written on the Wind

A Certain Fuzziness • NO MATTER HOW FAR GILES ALEXANDER’S PAINTINGS TAKES US INTO THE UNKNOWN, THEY ALWAYS HOLD THE PERSONAL AT THEIR CORE.

Marlene GILSON • IT WAS ONLY A LITTLE OVER A DECADE AGO THAT MARLENE GILSON FIRST BEGAN PAINTING. NOW SEVENTY-SEVEN, THIS WATHAURUNG/WADAWURRUNG ELDER IS A REMARKABLE AND STELLAR ARTIST. HER METICULOUSLY EXECUTED NARRATIVE-BASED PAINTINGS RECLAIM AND RE-CONTEXTUALIZE AUSTRALIA’S STORIES OF COLONISATION, TRADITIONAL WHITE STORIES REWORKED IN HUMBLE AND APPOSITE WAYS. HERS IS A CLASSIC JOURNEY OF AN ARTIST FINDING THEIR VOICE IN LATER YEARS.

Jumaadi • IN NEW MONUMENTAL PAINTINGS AND A PLAY, JUMAADI TRANSFORMS SURREAL AND MAGICAL VISIONS INTO MOVING PERSONAL EPICS FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL AND OTHER BIENNALES. HE ALSO EXPLAINS WHY HE NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN ON PUBLIC COMMISSIONS.

DEAN BOWEN • DEAN BOWEN’S ECCENTRIC ART BRUT WORKS ARE DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY AND DESIRE FOR THE STRANGE AS A MEANS OF UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD. THE RESULTS ARE TOUCHING AND SOMETIMES HILARIOUS. HIS TWO UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND BOOK ARE RARE INSIGHTS INTO BOWEN’S LIFE AND WORKS.

Isaac Julien in Australia • FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, LONDON-BASED ISAAC JULIEN HAS HAD A REGULAR EXHIBITING PRESENCEIN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. A QUADRIPARTITION OF AUSTRALIAN EXHITBITIONS WILL CELEBRATE THE ARTIST THIS SPRING, UNTIL AUTUMN.

Jonathan JONES • BEFORE AN ART PRACTICE CENTRED ON COMMUNITY STORYTELLING, JONATHAN JONES WAS CONCERNED WITH EXPERIMENTAL FORMS. HE HAS RECENTLY BEEN PARTNERING FOR A WHILE WITH ARTSPACE AND INFORMATION + CULTURAL EXCHANGE ON HIS NEW WORK AT THE PALAIS DE TOKYO, INSPIRED BY WOMEN FROM WESTERN SYDNEY.

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