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Art Mood: Jennifer Tucker

Istanbul-based interior architect and designer Rana Güneş celebrates Jennifer Tucker's artwork in an enviable 3D rendered setting.

In Conversation With: Ross Potter

Choosing graphite to create his large-scale works, Ross Potter takes the everyday and immortalises it in hyper-realistic art that doesn’t miss a detail.

Project Sheet: A Modern Masterpiece

The designs of Greg Natale unfold in ways not unlike the meticulous handling of a great many puzzle pieces, each one fitting with the next to create wondrous harmony, and an intricate result. Rose of Sharon Leake writes.

Artist Profile: Jacqueline Stojanović

Bold in the stories they tell, the tapestries Jacqueline Stojanović weaves are as detailed and intricate as the Serbian culture from which they hail. Sarah Golchin writes.

In Series: O.Hiisi

To explore body and form, O. Hiisi brings together found and imagined images through a dedicated use of lines and dots.

Buyer’s Guide: Living with the Art you Want to Live With

Galleries once brought artworks to a buyer’s home to let them live with it for a few days before committing to a purchase, but are in-person experiences like these still necessary or are there other ways to visualise the art you want to live with in your space? Briony Downes writes.

Art Mood: Liz Corkhill Knight

Istanbul-based interior architect and designer Rana Güneş celebrates Liz Corkhill Knight's artwork in an enviable 3D rendered setting.

Artist Profile: Kate Briscoe

Marked by scratches and blisters, Kate Briscoe’s works elevate the harsher beauty of our ancient landscapes. Emily Best writes.

Living with Art: A Story Without Filler

Where every element tells the story of its inhabitants, the Crawford Place home of Brett Mickan and Nick English – partners in life and work – is alive in stories of lives well lived, and tales yet to come. Nabila Chemaissem writes. Photography by Pablo Veiga.

Studio Visit: Anna Ward

After many adventures, study and travel, New Zealand/Aoearoa-born artist, Anna Ward resides now in Robina on the Gold Coast/Yugambeh with her family. It is here she works from her home studio creating large works full of expressive mark making and layers.

Artist Profile: Greg Mallyon

In a world where most have their feet squarely on the ground, Greg Mallyon chooses to soar with the birds and share the layered world they see from above. Nabila Chemaissem writes.

In Series: Viktoria Karaman

Viktoria Karaman highlights the importance of reusing materials, blending her passion for trees as a concept with natural materials in her sculptural works.

In Series: Lahaina Limaco

Self-taught artist Lahaina Limaco embodies the discomfort between moments, crafting a caricature of the awkward gazes shared and experienced in daily life.

Studio Visit: Anna Fitzpatrick

Anna Fitzpatrick is known for her compositional rhythms, use of bold colours, and intuitive approach to depicting her chosen subject matter — often the ancient and Intractable beauty of the Australian landscape.

Studio visit: Java Leonard

At 22 years of age and based in Auckland/ Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand, Java Leonard has only ever known a life of artistic creation. 

Project Sheet: Down to earth

Tracing the history of its clients’ lives and setting the stage for intergenerational memory-making, Terra House is a grounded and truly timeless piece of design. Charlotte Middleton writes.

Buyer’s Guide: Brave New Collectors

Confident, cashed up and well-travelled, a new generation of collectors is jumping in at the deep end, but many of the old rules of starting an art collection still apply, according to art consultants. Words by Louise Martin-Chew.

In Series: Katie Clulow

Tapping into her love for botanicals, Katie Clulow effectively captures the movement of her floral subject in a single photograph.

Objecthood: A&A

Celebrating the kaleidoscopic visual effects of straw marquetry, Adam Goodrum (AG) and Arthur Seigneur (AS), together A&A, create collectible pieces where every detail is fully bespoke.

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Art Mood: An Aesthetic Fairy-tale

Meet Istanbul-based interior architect, furniture and object designer and architectural visualizer Rana Güneş – this issue’s guest Art Mood designer and renderer.

Project Sheet: For the love of pink

A careful selection of artworks, some ingenious custom furniture and a client with a love of pink have come together in this major redesign. Penny Craswell writes.

Designers Brief: Janno Mclaughlin

Julia Green, founder and director of Geelong-based Greenhouse Interiors creates bespoke looks for these five works of art. Scan the QR codes to see these looks come to life.

Art Mood: Meli Axford

Meet Istanbul-based interior architect, furniture and object designer and architectural visualizer Rana Güneş – this issue’s guest Art Mood designer and renderer.

In Series: The Space Cowboy

The Space Cowboy uses vibrant colours and lines drawn with force to create a world where everything is possible. Wild cats, humans and griffins from classical mythology all intermingle.

In Series: Graham Voller

Interested in the character of direct brushwork and monochromatic colour ranges, Graham Voller represents the transformative processes of renewal and growth in his latest series.

Art Mood: Bridie O’Brien

Meet Istanbul-based interior architect, furniture and object designer and architectural visualizer Rana Güneş – this issue’s guest Art Mood designer and renderer.

In Conversation With: Erin Graham

Emerging artist Erin Graham finds joy in experimenting with different mediums and textures to capture a uniquely Australian mood.

Artist Profile: Laura Jones

From the picturesque Blue Mountains to the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctica, Laura Jones creates achingly beautiful works inspired by the forms of the natural world, sparking critical engagement with environmental concerns along the way. Charlotte Middleton writes.

Last Word: YES Exhibition

Born as a response to the harmful attitudes aired during Australia’s gay marriage plebiscite, YES Exhibition creates a place where the LGBTQ+ creative community can speak of itself loudly, clearly and uncensored. Rose of Sharon Leake interviews its co-founder Bowen Halkett.

Living with Art: In Great Company

In the house of sculptor Anna-Wili Highfield, the more you look, the more you find. Briony Downes writes. Photography by Nick De Lorenzo.

Studio Visit: Ash Holmes

Ash Holmes is a Sydney-based artist who draws on colour psychology and her environment, Guringai Land, for an everevolving source of inspiration in her abstract paintings. Often working large-scale canvases with acrylic paint, her gestural mark-making draws on the simplicity of nature.

In Series: Helen E Steele

Soon after reuniting with her biological family, Helen E Steele had to witness her adoptive mother and brother passing away. In this series, she reflects on this period of equal joy and sadness.

In Series: Dr Farvardin Daliri

Iranian-Australian artist Dr Farvardin Daliri aims to give viewers a deeper understanding of consciousness, to inspire them to look at the world with inquisitiveness, if only for a moment.

Artist Profile: Noel Hart

Blowing life into glass, Noel Hart transforms material into worlds of natural wonder. Aarushi Zarthoshtimanesh writes.

Artist Profile: Kris Ancog

Kris Ancog’s practice merges his dedication to art and ICU nursing, using the vital lessons of one to inform the other. Erin Irwin writes.