AIDS Fuckers Go Home AIDS Fuckers Go Home (oil, enamel, marker and silver gilt on panel) was completed as part of the artist's 2019 Mardi Gras Artist's residency at the Imperial Hotel Erskineville, a gay pilgrimage site, and the location where Priscilla was filmed and based. The work embodies everything the queer experience brushes up … Continue reading Robert Charlotte Maxwell
The Time That Time Forgot The world screeched to a halt this year due to unseen tiny little monsters. Who knows how many more are hiding in the folds of the dimension we are living in. Some good, some bad all invisible to the human eye. Bunkwaa is an Australian comic book artist, animator and the illustrator … Continue reading BUNKWAA
Where to now from here? There is a silhouette, a mirage of a woman. She holds paper and pen and walks, away and forwards. She is a silhouette with a shimmery silver body and glowing blue limbic system. It pulses through the ethereal body. The reef is the face, the face is everyone’s. Everyone is … Continue reading Louise Campbell-Smith
NEW NORMAL comprises a retro display from 2001, starkly contrasted by the bleakness of a masked mannequin from 2020, courtesy of Newtown Vinnies during lockdown. I started photographing mannequins after graduating from National Art School in 2001. I had received a government grant to open my own business and, while I got off to a … Continue reading Nikki McLennan
Exploring the relationship between the built environment, our land and ourselves, Witching Hour possesses a haunting Australian gothic quality conveyed by a cinematic approach with the use of prominent contrasts between dark and light. The scene depicts a weathered shed illuminated by headlights, that also reveals a mysterious fragmented figure, set beneath a starry sky. It symbolises our … Continue reading Rhiannon Hopley
The Lone Ranger is riding on down, to rescue you... in a pair of suspenders, because THAT is what we need in these trying times. Brian P's agitprop socio-political work lampoons corporate culture, advertising, the media and all the usual targets. Often controversial, the work has gathered the attention of censors, has been the subject … Continue reading Brian P
Tunnel Vision Iso | lat | ion Interior | Exterior | Tunnel Vision These works were made during lockdown and reflect a constant anxiety of the times through the exploration of isolation and the effects of this on our state of mind. The sense of a new normal is present as the deterioration and distortion … Continue reading Regina Botros
Shine On by Azelia Maynard is a playful tribute to extended car journeys, heading up the coast in the Valiant Safari, bare skin stuck to hot vinyl, the dog lolling wetly over your shoulder, his steamy breath scented of bone and carpet. Dad turns the dial, and the sticky tension in the wagon is sluiced … Continue reading Azelia Maynard
I Am Not a Virus Graffitied across a construction site: “Go home you yellow dog” . Yelled at a woman in a car, “Go back to where you came from, you dirty cunt, you dirty monkey". "You fucking Chinese, you bring the virus over”, slurred to a woman on the train. Spat on, pushed, punched. These … Continue reading Jasmine Poole
There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel Broken things can be fixed or turned into something of better value: a torn painting stitched with gold string, a light installation forged from trash, an abandoned mannequin becomes the cradle of new hope. Visual artist, creative director, graphic designer and illustrator Rudy Ardianto lives and works … Continue reading Rudy Ardianto
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