Artist Profile

Standing before a luminous artificial sun or walking through rainfall inside a gallery, audiences might mistake spectacle for Olafur Eliasson’s primary concern. Yet, beneath the immediate visual drama lies a profound inquiry into the fundamental processes by which we perceive, interpret, and ultimately co-create the world around us. Olafur Eliasson: Presence, occupyin...

The exhibition unfolds as an ode to Country, grounded in careful engagement with land and the ongoing presence of First Nations custodians. Slee returns, in a sense, to the material of the building itself, limestone sourced from the Berrin Mount Gambier region, embedding her work within the geological and cultural histories that underpin the site. […]

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Enrico Taglietti AO met his future wife Francesca (Franca) while they were both studying at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan Polytechnic), with Taglietti completing his degree in 1954. The couple shared the view that architecture and design were ultimately about people, and this was evident in their life and work. The salotto (parlour), for instance, […]

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Visually, the work unfolds like a page from a storybook. Figures appear to stand together, perhaps even holding hands. Boe’s work references the proclamation boards issued by George Arthur, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania, between 1824 and 1836. His Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1828–30, used pictograms to communicate the idea of equality […]<...

Genuine reflection, the quiet, unresolved, sometimes uncomfortable kind, feels increasingly rare. We are seldom invited to sit with what we do not yet understand. This is where art can still matter; not as decoration, not as therapy, and not as moral instruction; but as a rare site of inwardness. And yet, without inwardness, social / […]

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