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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FEELING AND "FEELING" ON FILM • RENOWNED PAINTER DEL KATHRYN BARTON MADE HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT AT THIS YEAR'S 69TH SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL WITH BLAZE, A COMING OF AGE TALE AT ONCE VISUALLY SUMPTUOUS AND UNSPARING IN ITS DEPICTION OF THE YOUNG PROTAGONIST'S VULNERABILITY AND FURY. H.R. HYATT-JOHNSTON AND ERIN MCFADYEN SAW THE FILM AT SYDNEY'S STATE THEATRE.

A RAGING COMING OF AGE

Mignon Steele Planet Mignon • ARE YOU TIRED OF SHAKING HANDS WITH THE SAME OLD? WHY NOT TAKE A TRIP? PACK LIGHT – EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS THERE. GREETINGS FROM PLANET MIGNON – THE ONLY PLACE YOU WILL EVER VISIT THAT WILL REMIND YOU THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO PAINT THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN.

Amber Wallis Lyrical Uncanny • WHEN IT COMES TO EMBRACING THE SPACE BETWEEN SPONTANEOUS ABSTRACTION AND PAINTERLY FIGURATION, AMBER WALLIS ASSERTS THE UNCERTAINTY OF FORM. HER ABILITY TO COMBINE ERASURE WITH LYRICAL SUGGESTION INTIMATES VEILED PERSONAL HISTORIES AND FUTURE FANTASY.

Gordon HOOKEY • IN 2022, AS THE ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART AND THE IMPENDING CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM FOR A VOICE TO PARLIAMENT FOR FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES LOOM ACROSS THE AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, ONE CAN FEEL THE SURGING WASH AND CHURN OF THE RECENT POLITICAL SEA CHANGE FROTHING WITH WHITE FOAM AS IT RISES AND THRUSTS AGAINST THE OCEAN LINER OF THIS POLITICAL CHANGE SINCE THE 21 MAY 2022 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION, IN WHICH THE OLD ORDER WAS DECIMATED AND CAST INTO THE POLITICAL WILDERNESS.

SUJI PARK Collecting Dust • FRACTURE AND REGENERATION PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE WORK OF KOREAN-NEW ZEALAND ARTIST SUJI PARK. WORKING BETWEEN CULTURES, LANGUAGES, AND PLACES, PARK CREATES CUMULATIVE SCULPTURAL FORMS WHICH CARRY TRACES OF THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE. ACTIVELY EMBRACING BREAKAGE AND CHANGE, HER WORKS ARE ENLIVENED BY THE DYNAMIC POTENTIAL OF THE UNKNOWN.

Paul Yore SEEING THE JOINS

James Angus Re-joining the World • SINCE LEAVING HIS NATIVE PERTH IN 1996 TO PURSUE POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AT YALE SCHOOL OF ART, SCULPTOR JAMES ANGUS HAS LIVED IN BOTH LONDON AND SYDNEY, THEN RETURNED TO NEW YORK IN 2006. HE REMAINS COMMITTED TO A TRANS-PACIFIC PRACTICE, KEEPING A PROPERTY AND STUDIO ON THE SOUTH COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES WHERE HIS FAMILY SPENDS AS MUCH TIME AS THEIR SCHEDULES ALLOW.

Mia Salsjö • THROUGH THE SEEMINGLY INTANGIBLE RHYTHM OF NUMBERS AND LINES, ARTIST AND MUSICIAN MIA SALSJÖ TRANSLATES THE HEART OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACES INTO MYRIAD INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES. IN RESPONSE TO THE GERTRUDE GLASSHOUSE ARISES HER NEWEST WORK, A CHAMBER OPERA, THOUSAND YEAR PLAN FOR GERTRUDE GLASSHOUSE.

RYAN PRESLEY NO EXIT • ART, RYAN PRESLEY’S WORK SUGGESTS, SHOULD BE A BRIDGE BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL AND VERNACULAR CULTURE, AS IF EACH WOULD BECOME SHALLOW WITHOUT THE OTHER.

Kirsty Kross’s Wonder World Doomsday Fish, Dolphin Sex, and Ken Done • THE ARTIST KIRSTY KROSS IS KNOWN FOR HER PLAYFUL, PHILOSOPHICAL PERFORMANCES OFTEN DRESSED AS A CORAL TROUT, SHE ALSO HAS A RICH PRACTICE IN BIOGRAPHICAL PHOTO ESSAYS.

Idris Murphy • BORN IN BANKSTOWN, IDRIS MURPHY’S APPROACH TO ARTMARKING HAS BEEN INFORMED BY PERIODS SPENT IN THE UK AND EUROPE, AS WELL AS FREQUENT JOURNEYS TO THE EAST MACDONNELL RANGES, MUTAWINTJI NATIONAL PARK, AND FOWLERS GAP RESEARCH STATION. HIS PAINTINGS ARE RELATIONAL, RATHER THAN REPRESENTATIONAL: THEY...