Artist Profile

Artist Profile is a leading quarterly journal taking its readers into the studios and minds of contemporary artists across Australasia and beyond. Industry professionals engage leading practitioners and emerging talent in conversations about their art, in their own words, while our exclusive photo shoots provide intimate access into artists’ personal and working lives. Readers gain knowledge of artists’ methods, preview works in progress and discover the life experiences that ignite artistic imaginations.

Artist Profile

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Editor’s Note

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Tony Costa: Beauty is not enough • By recounting the same tree trunk differently, it empowers Costa’s painting with greater formal clarity and a more abstracted resolution—Nicholas Tsoutas

Kirtika Kain: The Intelligence of Materials • Sometimes you have to destroy works in order to find them–Kirtika Kain

Man on Fire • This work, his new magnum opus, is biblical in its scope, majestic in its proportions and deeply moving in its subject matter. It is clearly a masterwork surpassing, in my opinion, anything he has created in the past–Dr Gene Sherman AM

Kirsteen Pieterse: Between Earth and Edifice • I’m not attracted to the idea of hitting people over the head with a hammer… I want to seduce them and lead them to their own questions–Kirsteen Pieterse

Derek Ogbourne: The Eye Remembers • It’s love, you know—absolutely adoring it. Feeling totally in love with paint, totally in love with ideas, totally in love with art–Derek Ogbourne

Justene Williams: A Dancing Queen • I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum… I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top–Claes Oldenburg

David Collins: The Landscape of Abstraction • I call myself a landscape painter, but my interests are essentially about abstraction—David Collins

Elizabeth Day: Infinite presence and ambiguities • Day uses “time, history, prehistory and geological history” to create artworks that radiate their meanings by their presence–H.R. Hyatt-Johnston

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Radical Survival • I remember a few years ago being in Paris standing in the Louvre and marvelling at these stunning paintings. Not just the masterfully treated flora but the microcosm of bugs and insects so beautifully hidden within them.–Phil James

Pearl Lam: Redefining Contemporary Art Through Cultural Dialogue • What matters most to me is creating an equal cultural dialogue—Pearl Lam

Béla Tarr: the sound of the dead • And what will happen now to Béla Tarr?–Susan Sontag

Cliff Reid: a lyrical glimpse • Reid’s practice was perched at the intersection of worlds and at the edge of understanding—John Carty

Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell • Art needs something to nurture it–Euan Macleod

A candy shop for artists: The Kenneth E. Tyler Collection • Tyler revolutionised printmaking by treating prints not as reproductions of paintings but as major original artworks–Nick Mitzevich

The Long View: Growing an art ecosystem • There are young collectors out there who feel daunted going into a gallery with only a few things on the wall—Anthea Polson

Collective Unlearning • When the artist’s role is to support a community in responding to its own shifting conditions, being able to have meaningful dialogue becomes more important than finding definitive answers–Tessa Zettel and Jennifer Hamilton

Fridays at Cicada • I’ve been very fortunate that artists of all levels of experience continue to embrace the collaborative nature of Cicada’s engagement with the medium–Michael Kempson

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