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

STOLON PRESS: PUBLISHING AS A COLLECTIVE PRACTICE • AS MAINSTREAM BOOK PUBLISHING BECOMES INCREASINGLY DOMINATED BY PAST SALES, AND ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED TASTES, AUSTRALIA’S THRIVING ECOSYSTEM OF SMALL ART PRESSES TAKE ON THE WORK OF BRINGING NEW IDEAS, MATERIALS AND FORMS TO LIGHT. WORKING IN SMALL STUDIOS, AND PRINTING THEIR SMALL RUNS ON HOME PRINTERS OR PHOTOCOPIERS, THEY TRANSFORM PUBLISHING INTO AN EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE.

Seth Birchall Changing Space • IN HIS UNCANNILY FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE CONFIGURATIONS, WITH THEIR UNIQUELY EUPHORIC TENOR, SETH BIRCHALL OFFERS US FRESH WAYS OF SEEING WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO WELL.

Adrienne GAHA The Language of Painting • ADRIENNE GAHA USES THE LANGUAGE OF PAINTING TO WORK THROUGH LAYERS OF PROCESS, IMAGERY, AND EXPERIMENTATION. HER ABSTRACTED FORMS SWATHED IN IRIDESCENT HUES ARE IMBUED WITH SUBCONSCIOUS MEANING, YET REJECT PRESCRIPTIVE READING AS TO ALLOW AMPLE ROOM FOR GAZING.

Jo Bertini • Deep in Land: Secrets and the Sublime in America’s Southwest

Daniel Boyd A New Survey • FOR DANIEL BOYD, THE QUESTION OF WHO WE ARE CAN BE APPROACHED – IF NOT “ANSWERED” – MATERIALLY. LOCATING WHAT WE SEE AND DON’T SEE OF OURSELVES IN ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES, IN THE METALLIC FRAMES OF LARGESCALE PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS, AND IN “LENSES” OF GLUE, BOYD INVITES US TO ENCOUNTER THE DARKNESSES IN OUR HISTORIES, BE THEY COLONIAL OR COSMOLOGICAL.

CALLUM INNES I’ll Close My Eyes • THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY WORKS BY CALLUM INNES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS ACROSS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. IN 2006, THE EXHIBITION FROM MEMORY TOURED FROM EDINBURGH’S FRUITMARKET TO IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM, AND ON TO SYDNEY’S MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA. IN ADDITION TO PAINTING, INNES HAS COLLABORATED ON ARTIST BOOKS WITH POETS AND WRITERS INCLUDING COLM TÓIBÍN, AND HAS UNDERTAKEN MONUMENTAL PUBLIC ART LIGHT PROJECTION PROJECTS. HE NOW DIVIDES HIS LIFE BETWEEN HOUSES AND STUDIOS IN OSLO AND EDINBURGH, WHILE EXHIBITING GLOBALLY.

Kate Mitchell Two Worlds Collide • THE ALCHEMICAL PROCESS OF CONCEPTUAL AND AESTHETIC LAYERING IS THE KEYSTONE OF KATE MITCHELL’S PRACTICE. IN HER MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WORKS, CONTEMPORARY SUBJECTS CRASH INTO CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURES, THE OUTCOMES OF WHICH SEEK TO CHISEL A CHINK IN THE ONTOLOGICAL ARMOUR OF WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE VALUE AND HOW WE EXIST.

NUHA SAAD An Archeology of the Suburbs • NUHA SAAD HAS BUILT AN IMPRESSIVE FORTY-YEAR PRACTICE DEFENDING COLOUR. HER DEFENCE IS ONE THAT HAS NURTURED A FASCINATION WITH THE ORNAMENTAL AND THE ARCHITECTURAL, ONE REALISED IN LUMINOUS DOMESTICSCALE FORMS AND MONUMENT-SIZED INSTALLATION ART, OFFERING THE VIEWER A UNIQUE AND CELEBRATORY JOURNEY INTO THE “ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SUBURBS.”

Yuki Kihara Power and Resistance • WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF IDENTITY POLITICS, DECOLONISATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, YUKI KIHARA BRINGS THE IMMERSIVE NEW WORK, PARADISE CAMP – HER VISION OF “A FA’AFAFINE UTOPIA” – TO CONTEMPORARY ART’S BIGGEST STAGE, AS THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND AT THE 2022 BIENNALE DI VENEZIA.

Mai Nguyễn-Long If You Could Not Say • WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF YOU COULD NOT SAY? ISSUES OF DISPLACEMENT, VOICELESSNESS, SILENCING, UNTRANSLATABILITY, AND RESISTANCE ARE PROMINENT IN THE 2022 NEW WORKS VOMIT GIRL (BERLIN CLUSTER) AND SPECIMEN (PERMEATE) BY MAI NGUYỄN-LONG, TO BE PREMIERED AT THE 12TH BERLIN BIENNALE AMONGST...