Have you thought about making art, but don’t know how to get started? This article, written by Sez Wilks, was recently published in the La Trobe University Alumni magazine. Hands-on hobbies can help us during …
Last year I was privileged to work with the Centre for Music, Litury and the Arts to explore the idea of painting my contribution to a conversation about the lived experience of incarnational worship. Over …
Watch: ‘What does it mean to be an artist?’ What are we claiming when we say, ‘I am an artist’, and why is it that some people are able claim this sense of identity whilst …
Few contemporary artists have sparked our imaginations like Christo and Jean-Claude. Now both are gone. I look forward to a series of retrospective exhibitions and moving image dedications. Art for everyone….. Patricia Fenner (Assoc Prof, …
Figure 1. Ava Byrne, (2020). NGV. Gouache on canvas. Figure 2. Ethan Byrne, (2020). NGV. Gouache on canvas. In this time of isolation, I have 2 paintings hanging on the wall in my home office that evoke …
There are tensions on the surface of this image that have resulted in a furious working toward solutions with whatever materials are at hand. Having attempted to cover the content of this ambiguous and organic …
Art making has been an important part of my healing process. Ellen Dissanayake claims that making art offers the opportunity to engage with the art of repetition to elaborate on our experience of desire, instilling …
JOY Joy arrives in the space between what has passed and what is still to come. We can never plan to experience joy but we can live in such a way as to be …
Art helps us to navigate particular challenges in human existence, giving shape and form to our ephemeral and yet lived experiences. Mikel Dufrenne (1973) submits that the work of art is grasped in the aesthetic experience. …
Rebekah Pryor, Cathedral, Installation (St Paul’s Cathedral), Melbourne, 2015. I have been noticing lately how much I like talking to people in galleries. I have also been noticing how each different gallery experience promotes different …
