Artist’s Statement I was born in Mariabad Quetta, province of Balochistan, Southwestern Pakistan. Growing up surrounded by art centers, the smell of oil paint would be invaluable later in life …
Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)
wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …
Wali (Djon Mundine OAM)
Artist’s Statement Wali (Possum-Marsupial): A Memorial to the Spirit of Beauty, Flight and Play Totem is a spirit being, appearing as a natural species or force of nature that serves …
DRAWING ON THE LAND: GARIGAL COUNTRY (Michael Glasheen)
(Feature image: a portrait of Michael Glasheen by Juno Gemes) Michael Glasheen has been a pioneering force in the fields of experimental film and interactive media since the late 1960s. …
Underworld (Lilli Waters)
Artist’s Statement Although my art practice explores many different subjects, an ongoing preoccupation is capturing women in landscape. With their identities hidden and glowing bodies melding into the …
The Dingo’s Noctuary (Judith Nangala Crispin)
Vision 2 (from The Dingo’s Noctuary) The Mongrels I have no memory of waking. An awareness slowly formed in the dark — scratching acacia, the strum of powerlines in wind. There …
SONDER SECLUSION (Faizan Adil)
Artist’s Statement Sonder: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Seclusion: the state of being private and away from other …
2018 QPF PHILIP BACON EKPHRASIS AWARD WINNERS
Queensland Poetry Festival’s Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award, now in its fourth year, is named after one of Australia’s premier art dealers, Philip Bacon. All the paintings used in the competition …
Shanghai Street Photography (Brenton Rossow)
Brenton Rossow is a filmmaker, poet, and musician, who has returned to Perth, Western Australia after 14 years in South East Asia. He recently produced a feature length documentary called Shanghainese …
Ceremony (Teena McCarthy)
Artist’s Statement ‘Among the aborigines inhabiting the Darling and Lower Murray Rivers, New South Wales, it was customary for the female relatives of a deceased person to plaster they’re faces …