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

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

The Woke Paradox • As 2024 came to an end, there were four exhibitions in Sydney that offered a more nuanced and thought-provoking consideration of our rapidly changing world, and its many challenges to existing norms and traditions. This was in stark contrast to what has been the preoccupations of various institutions over the past two decades.

Anna Johnson in the Studio • Anna Johnson came to painting late. She’s been a writer for most of her working life, putting visual art onto the page through criticism, commentary, and story. While she’s always drawn and made watercolours, writing was where her primary creative focus lay. Six years ago, she took a studio and began to paint large abstract canvases. The results are extraordinary, writes Susie Burge.

A sense of place in the art of Tina Stefanou • Tina Stefanou works with experimental forms of performance and visual art, creating experiences that prioritise embodied relationships and multispecies encounters in community and place.

NICK MOUNT • Nick Mount is a prolific maker of exquisite objects inspired by traditional Venetian techniques. Working from his Adelaide studio, he continues to experiment and explore the medium of glass, achieving the highest levels of skill and refinement.

JENNY ORCHARD A new weird, wonderful • Jenny Orchard creates fantastical creatures and monsters to imagine new weird and wonderful worlds. In a practice of forty-six years, she has worked across drawing, collage, and ceramics to build and shape a new vision of a world where we see ourselves as one with nature.

ELDRED WISDOM Treading Softly in a Visionary World • For over five decades, Eldred Wisdom’s paintings have served as a space for his aesthetics, materials, surfaces, and the possibilities of objects that have included leaves, sand, seeds, shells, and numerous other entities from the natural world in their widest context.

JOE WILSON & CHANELLE COLLIER The Kite and The Storm • Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier are collaborators engaged in a continuous flurry of experimentation and invention.

ILDIKÓ KOVÁCS The Infinite Line • Ildikó Kovács, an Australian artist known for her visually striking abstractions, has just returned to her studio at Bundeena, south of Sydney, after time away on the island of Lombok, Indonesia. She’s rejuvenated and anticipating the resumption of her painterly dialogue with the materials of her art. She predicts that the atmospheric wet season’s light and lush green rainforest tones will feature soon.

Jock Clutterbuck Timeless Duration • Over the course of a highly productive career Jock Clutterbuck’s sculpture and prints have celebrated the intangible as well as being a homage to both the Australian landscape and the esoteric world of the imagination.

Lauren Brincat

The Multiple Worlds of Marikit Santiago • For the past ten years, Western Sydney-based artist Marikit Santiago has been practising tactics of appropriation to enact embodied challenges to the canon of Western art history. This is deeply intertwined with personal narratives of the diasporic experience of her Filipino Australian family. Her work also includes the...