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.

The Great Unwrapping • The repatriation of Indigenous remains and artifacts is now so routine that there is even an Australian Government Advisory Committee for Indigenous Repatriation, yet the reverential cultural values underlying the Aboriginal identification with plants and animals can still cause anxiety when they collide with western attitudes to artworks.

HOSSEI • HOSSEI - master craftsman and worldbuilder, manipulator of sensory devices to evoke alternate dreamscapes. After a 5-year hiatus, HOSSEI is sharing his practice with us again, more colourful and emotive than ever.

Beyond the Canvas Emma Coulter

CLARA ADOLPHS NATURAL GAME • On a cloudless Autumn morning, Clara Adolphs meets me in her Southern Highlands studio, where we chat for hours about life, art, temporality, motherhood, and the imaginary world that has contoured her career.

Mika Utzon Popov • Mika Utzon Popov’s peripatetic life has unfolded between and beyond the beech forests of Denmark, Sydney’s sun-drenched Northern Beaches, and the cliffs of Mallorca—locales that are indelibly imprinted on both his personal philosophy and artistic output. Equally formative was an upbringing within the orbit of Jørn Utzon—an architectural legend who instilled within his grandson a sensitivity to the poetics of light and space, and the limitless potential of their interrelationship.

Naomi Hobson

JESS MACNEIL • Jess MacNeil is an artist whose creative practice traverses painting, video, photography, and drawing. Her work seamlessly navigates these diverse media in a fluid, multi-disciplinary approach, and she is equally comfortable experimenting with a range of dimensions, from large-scale wall-and-floor mounted structures to intimate small forms and video.

Jenny Bell’s Life Forms • Drawing and its focus on line and form are a constant throughout Jenny Bell’s artistic journey. As a regenerative farmer and artist, Bell’s reductive line and, more recently, use of bold primary colour mark a transformative breakthrough in her practice articulating her holistic embrace of the land we live in and on.

THE LIGHT IN THE DESERT FIONA SOMMERVILLE • Fiona Somerville has met the challenge of the light of the Australian desert. The fun of her paintings distracts from her technical achievement. Sustained by masterful drawing, she paints history in place.

Mortalised

Jenna Lee • My practice has always been focused on deconstruction and reconstruction, on the transformation of material and meaning through acts of intervention as a sort of alchemy. At the core of this process was the hope of physically translating source material and books written about us, without us.

Josh Foley • For my upcoming exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, those attending the opening will be on the occasion of my fortieth birthday. I will be presenting a series of landscapes that investigate the forms of various built and natural locations via the idiosyncratic vision I’ve developed over the past fifteen years.

Tim Page a personal memoir

35 years and counting Utopia Art Sydney • “I ended up running a gallery by accident,” Christopher Hodges admits as he takes in the sunshine in the courtyard of Utopia Art Sydney. The red-brick building in the...