Artist Profile

In Australia, political cartoons were altered by several events during the 1960s: the arrival of Les Tanner’s (1927‒2001) instinctual wit at The Bulletin, Bruce Petty’s (1927‒2023) “doodle-bombs” at The Australian and a group of anti-establishment cartoonists at The Age. This tradition of political satire continues and is honoured in the current exhibition, Behind the...

Recognition of the importance of early bark paintings and their link to the world’s oldest continuing culture, is what makes them both highly sought and rarely available. Early anthropologists and collectors were alert to their importance, with fine examples acquired and now in institutional collections. Key collecting expeditions in the mid-twentieth century see the ...

I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the opening performances (many did not). Creation, 2020, is a beautiful work and was perfectly chosen for this event, celebrating the spirit in art that doesn’t look at what is but […]

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Cuban-born, Brisbane-based artist Jorge Mariño Brito’s practice unfolds across two material registers that are best understood not as parallel tracks but as entwined explorations. Both his figurative oil paintings and works made using “Stratpulp” (a handmade paper technique the artist developed that creates fibre from second-hand linen clothes) operate within a shared...