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.

Paved Paradise: The Paradox of Art Vandalism • For more than a century, the art museum and its "masterpieces" have served as soft targets for acts of material and symbolic destruction in the name of protest. But what happens to the legibility of these protests – and to the art – when these spectacles themselves become business-as-usual?

LAURENCE EDWARDS A GATHERING OF UNCERTAINTIES • Laurence Edwards is known for his sculptures of mystified figures emerging from the marshes, woodlands, and heaths of his native Suffolk. In a forthcoming survey exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery, Edwards’s men achieve a new significance, hinting at the breakdown of once-unshakeable truths.

Lucy Guerin What is that Distance? • In the spaces where Lucy Guerin’s works are performed, the air is often taut and strangely clear – as if we, and the dancers, are continuously right on the cusp of something. Guerin knows that audiences can sometimes find the ambiguity which characterises her work frustrating. In fact, this detachment from narrative – or from “expressivity” – doesn’t belie the choreographer’s generosity as an artist so much as it invites us to fall, backwards, into it.

Blak Douglas Not a Proper Aboriginal

READING BETWEEN THE LINES MEL DOUGLAS • Mel Douglas conceptualises her glass forms as drawings, and conceives of her artmaking in terms of a drawing practice. By referring to the multiplicity of ways line has been used across the wider field of visual arts, the artist looks to see if glass can offer a new species of line – a liberated line, severed from its substrate.

AWARENESS INTO ACTION OLAFUR ELIASSON • The name Olafur Eliasson is synonymous with perception altering work grounded in natural phenomena. His goal? To impact the ways in which we grasp the world around us. With the climate crisis now an urgent reality, Eliasson’s recent major exhibitions in Italy focus on experiences that urge us to recognise our own responsibility.

Nasim Nasr PUSH / PULL • Iranian-born and now Sydney-based, Nasim Nasr’s distinctive style and poignant works are an attempt to make sense of the tension between the push and pull of her past and present, and emerge from the need to ensure that those without a voice are heard.

Claudia Kogachi GUT FEELING • Claudia Kogachi is an emerging artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, whose paintings and textile works unite the uncanny and the unapologetically autobiographical. The playfulness of craft and cartoon aesthetics, pop-block primary colour, and pattern belie nuanced explorations of emotional turmoil and interpersonal dynamics.

CAROLINE ROTHWELL FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS • Born in Yorkshire to an industrial chemist and a “street botanist,” Caroline Rothwell treats artmaking as a playful form of research into the natural world, and our human histories of encounter with it.

AARON FELL-FRACASSO KEEP THEM GUESSING

Peter Tyndall Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse • Peter Tyndall works from a studio in Hepburn Springs, at a house called Bonzaview. A fifty-year survey of his work, now exhibiting at Buxton Contemporary, reveals an artist with a deep, critical engagement with the Australian visual arts community through the end of one century and the beginning of another.

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