Evening (Mt Coot-tha from Dutton Park) 1898 (illustrated) currently on display at the Queensland Art Gallery, is an accomplished work of a painter aware of the work of his Australian contemporaries Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder. Frederick James (FJ) Martyn Roberts, born in 1871 was 27 at the […]
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In my career as an illustrator who has been published by The New York Times, Penguin Books, Buzzfeed, and more, I have to balance freelance gigs with teaching and other obligations — and I’ve found developing a time management matrix that reflects my personal priorities as an artist to be […]
“The old entire world is dying and the new entire world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” – Antonio Gramsci Jeremy Olson’s latest solo exhibition with Device London places his common solid of otherworldly creatures at the centre of an apocalyptic environment. this time of monsters draws its title […]
As artists, we are often known for what we do/create/make. It is not just what we do, but it also is a major component of who we are. If we are not making, if we are not creating, if we are not sketching, planning, or researching…then we are neglecting a […]
We consider a seem back again at a misplaced but not overlooked Brisbane landmark — The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Fountain — nevertheless the installation of a fountain in the Brisbane River in front of the Queensland Art Gallery was not part of the unique strategies for the Queensland […]
History-mapping draws the large and slender, the identified and unknown past to the current. Throughout my residency at the Aminah Robinson dwelling, I examined the impulses powering my prose poem “Blood on a Blackberry” and observed a kinship with the textile artist and author who created her dwelling a artistic […]