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 • Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work.

The vision of Emily Kame Kngwarreye • There is an air of anticipation for Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s first large-scale exhibition in Europe, to open at the Tate Modern in London this July. Kngwarreye’s compelling work, made in the remote Utopia region of Central Australia, will travel to the shores of the Thames—a climate, audience and geography another world away. In this European context and Western institution, the stage is alight with questions and debate on how Kngwarreye should be framed and understood as the visionary that she was.

Linda Sok Reincarnations of an Altar Cloth • Linda Sok reimagines Cambodian textile traditions through a series of poetically and politically charged weavings. Blending personal memory, historical loss and cultural reclamation, Sok’s artworks transform archival fragments into living art. Through her work, she confronts gaps in heritage while also calling upon the power of intergenerational and diasporic storytelling.

An artist who refuses to be categorised – Janet Dawson

Patrick Pound • Patrick Pound’s extensive and well-documented career spans thirty years, with exhibitions and major survey shows at leading public galleries nationally and internationally. A self-labelled obsessive, Pound searches, collects and organises found photographs and ephemera into extensive collections that both distil and confound the search for life’s meaning.

PENNY EVANS • Penny Evans is a ceramic artist living in Lismore on Widjabul Wia-bal Country. A descendant of the Gamilaroi people, her practice engages with identity, Country, pre- and post-colonial histories, kinship, connection, and the mysteries of process and materiality.

William Mackinnon • William Mackinnon is a painter who divides his time, and his exhibitions, between Europe and Australia. His canvases have a cinematic quality which evoke road trips at night. He says that “the road for me is kind of like the gum tree for Fred Williams, or Ned Kelly for Nolan.”

Ebony RUSSELL Sculptor of the Superfluous • Ebony Russell’s piped porcelain sculptures explore beauty, decoration and excess through a feminist, deeply researched and, ultimately, ironic lens. Ahead of Frivolous, Russell’s first solo exhibition with Martin Browne Contemporary, she reflects on technical innovation, risk, lessons and influences from three decades spent working with clay.

G.W. BOT The language of nature • G.W. Bot’s layered practice is enmeshed with her relation to, and position within, the natural environment. It is through the process of making, employing mediums including printmaking, painting, monumental bronze, steel, sculpture, ceramics, studio glass, and other graphic mediums, that G.W. Bot transforms into the conduit between nature and its language.

NIGEL HELYER Sonic Objects, Sonic Architecture • Nigel Helyer’s creative practice has focussed increasingly upon bringing the physical and ecological environments together with social and cultural contexts. Using multichannel sound installation, data sonification and sonic cartography, Helyer’s hybrid works span public art projects, sound-art, environmental and bio-art collaborations, designed to create...