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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: 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.

Artist Profile: Jenna Lee

An enduring legacy lives in the Larrakian language Indigenous artist Jenna Lee strives still to learn. Its syllables colour the intricacies of her artworks, giving testament to her ongoing discovery of home and ancestry. Maya Hodge 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

In Series: Katie Clulow

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

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.

In Series: Kate Slowey

Sydney-based artist Kate Slowey paints a fluid visual diary, expressing her personal and the universal experience all at once.

Last Word: Crafting the Future

With an eye on the future, Iris Lucia uses new technologies to create novel renditions of the objects we have always known.

Project Sheet: Rounded Out

Working with the client’s existing art collection, interior design studio Duet has taken this Sydney home to the next level with an interior filled with rich colours and a mix of old and new. Penny Craswell writes.

Art Mood: Jennifer Tucker

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

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.

Artist Profile: Kate Briscoe

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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: Pamela Jones

Tasmanian artist Pamela Jones captures the dynamic interactions between the ocean and land, which she skilfully translates to a two dimensional surface for her latest series.

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.

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: Audrey Kearns

Audrey Kearns’ latest series is a study of our external surroundings and the beauty of everyday objects we overlook in our daily lives.

Artist Profile: Sarah Rayner

For artist Sarah Rayner, nature’s purpose provides endless possibilities for exploration. Erin Irwin writes.

In Conversation With: Erin Graham

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

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.

Objecthood: Fanny Ollas

Working in ceramics and textiles, Swedish artist Fanny Ollas anthropomorphises everyday objects to accord them deeper meaning.

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.

Art Mood: Kate Cox

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: Up the Garden Path

Link House might boast refined architecture, stylish interiors, and a rotating collection of spectacular local art – but spatial and compositional elements are the true hero in this garden paradise. Charlotte Middleton writes.

Artist Profile: Noel Hart

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

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.

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.

Designers Brief: Marianne Urth

Julia Green, founder and director of Geelong-based Greenhouse Interiors creates bespoke looks for these five works of art.