women in careers: genevieve the artist
Meet Genevieve, an emerging artist currently primarily dabbling in documentary and portraiture photography, filmmaking and painting pictured here at the Premiere of her film The Three Minute Project, shot by Christopher Arblaster. Her journey to becoming an artist came as an unexpected wave of abstract creativity inspired by Jackson Pollock, as opposed to her original [...]
crumbling ecologies: craft, community, fragility
Craft and community are intertwined concepts, but both are under threat. Our affection for all things handmade has not been enough to preserve the fringes of arts education during tough economic times. Artist Jasmine Targett noticed this, and from it sprang a sprawling, delicate project that brought countless crafters together. What emerged was her series [...]
art review: the clock
Time schedules our day. This is obvious. We get up at a particular time, we get to work or meet people at specified times. We might like lunch at midday or one o’clock or one thirty. If we are late to appointments, we run the risk of missing the person we want to see. We [...]
project 300
“Lend a moment to your imagination and cast your mind back to your childhood, but replace your suburban surroundings with the Nepalese countryside. Where planned streets and roads are replaced by scarcely scattered buildings and rolling hills, with opportunities for schooling few and far between. Now that your mind has carried you there in thought, [...]
artist profile: sara tatai
Sara Tatai is an Australian Sudanese artist. Sara has a BA in Painting and Photography from Deakin University, and a MA Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Sara is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. How would you best describe your style and method? My style is about colour, pattern and texture, and my [...]
artist profile: vera ada
Véra Ada is a 22 year old linguistics graduate with a keen interest in photography and languages. Whilst the latter is the main focus of her career, she considers picture-making as her creative self. After picking up a point & shoot digital camera 5 years ago, she now works in multiple formats, including 35mm and [...]
artist profile: amy blue
Amy Blue is a 26-year-old artist studying a Bachelor of Illustration at NMIT. How would you best describe your style? Sometimes rough, sometimes soft. I feel like I have two distinctive styles: one direct and one understated. What mediums are used in your work? I love my pacer pencil! I also use ink, pantones, charcoal, [...]
artist profile: nikita burt
Describe your work in five words or less. Creative deconstruction and reconstruction How did you get started in this business? Initially through studying fine art, and then creative arts therapy Did you want to pursue art when you were growing up? Who were your early influences? Yes, always. I think my family were in many [...]
artist profile: aida sabic
Melbourne artist Aida Sabic wields her pencil (usually, though all mediums are her playthings) to create darkly and beautiful feminine realistic portraits and intricately captured moments in time. The various displays of elegance, raw winsomeness and symbolic measures of darkness all coalesce perfectly in the hands of Sabic. How did you first discover your passion [...]
art profile: mika ninagawa
Dramatic, vivid, loud, beautiful… These words spring to mind when admiring the stand- out photography of Mika Ninagawa, with almost every colour in the rainbow making an appearance in many of her photos, along with daring and dramatic lashings of femininity. Ninagawa, born in 1972 in Tokyo, Japan, specialises in both portrait photography and still [...]
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