Showcase: Roy B Wilkins
A striking combination of bold line and layered motifs, Toby by London-born, Melbourne-based artist Roy Wilkins is the coalescence of the artist’s instinctual approach to mark-making and his environment. Embracing a truly expressionist style, the artist works and reworks his large canvases, applying acrylic atop spray paint on stencil and pastel. An artwork seemingly finished […]
Showcase: Hayley Smith “The Hayley Co”
Site-specificity is key to Perth-based artist Hayley Smith’s practice, given she uses the site as a canvas for her work. Executing large scale murals, Smith’s objective is to create works that are accessible to the wider community, engaging with and serving their audience. For Atomic Blast, which the artist painted alongside Susan Respinger, Smith looked […]
Showcase: Kai Hagberg
Works by Finland-born, Far North Queensland-based artist Kai Hagberg preserve moments of transition, his figural practice the product of decades professional discipline. Whether it is a face shifting between expressions, or a mind drifting between thoughts, Hagberg’s paintings forcefully evoke the ephemeral nature of emotion. In Flight of Fancy, we see his ability to capture […]
Showcase: Anita George
In the art of calligraphy, much time and effort is devoted to achieving consistency, practitioners continually working towards a sense of uniformity and proportion. Victorian artist Anita George spent decades honing these skills: “I learnt the rules. Now I break them.” In her work Tictoc, the pendulum swings, the artist engages in what she calls […]
Showcase: Camille Jeffreys
“I find with the world moving so fast we often forget to stop and properly look at things”, says Melbourne-based artist Camille Jeffreys. “When we pause, nature provides such an incredible amount of detail”. In her work Lucid, we see a dehydrated psilocybin mushroom, an occupant of the forest floor known for its sensory effects. […]
Showcase: Thicia Luiza
As the sun went down on a quiet Friday afternoon, Brazilian-born, Brisbane-based artist Thicia Luiza started a conversation. With Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday playing in the background, a menagerie of strangers began to form upon a bed of warm autumn colours, and Billie & her Friends was born. Describing her process as […]
Ones to Watch: Kate Belvedere
Art Edit has selected Kate Belvedere as an outstanding artist to have on your radar. “My work is an attempt to grapple at what it is to be human in an ever-changing cosmos,” says early-career artist Kate Belvedere. Residing in North-East Victoria, Belvedere graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the […]
Ones to Watch: Samantha Haničar
Art Edit has selected Samantha Haničar as an outstanding artist to have on your radar. Trained in Fine Arts & Design at Newcastle Art School, Australian-Croatian artist Samantha Haničar’s practice encompasses drawing and sculpture. Brutalist architecture, Spomeniks (WWII memorials built in the former Yugoslavia), and the concrete socialist housing found in central and Eastern Europe […]
Ones to Watch: Simone Darcy
Art Edit has selected Simone Darcy as an outstanding artist to have on your radar. Born in Bedgerabong on Wiradjuri land in rural NSW, Simone Darcy is an early-career artist based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, her distinct practice employs cameraless image-making and darkroom processes in inventive ways. Using performance […]
Ones to Watch: Zeina Kara Ali
Art Edit has selected Zeina Kara Ali as an outstanding artist to have on your radar. “I have a deep affinity with beauty,” confesses Sydney-based artist Zeina Kara Ali, who was born and raised in Lebanon. First trained in Biology, her supreme powers of observation translate to sensitively rendered landscape and still-life works brimming with […]