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Artangel

ArtangelAngels of our time Catherine Wilson Visitors to Circular Quay, Sydney, in mid-2005 may remember an intriguing video installation by Kutlug Ataman entitled Küba in one of the passenger ferry terminals. Within an enormous warehouse space, viewers were...

Current issue: Autumn 2007

Art & Australia is thrilled to present our Autumn 2007 issue, an unprecedented volume full of surprises, showcasing Australian and international contemporary art, packed with reviews and criticism, and as always with the highest quality production values...

Louise Weaver

Rachel Kent: Louise, you made your first crochet piece in 1994. Twelve years on, what are your principal concerns as an artist? How do you feel your work has evolved or shifted over time?Louise Weaver: The first crocheted object I made was called I am...

The nature of art

Nature and art are two threatened species that from the earliest times were revered and often intertwined, but in recent history have drifted apart and each suffered at the hands of social and political indifference. Historically in western culture, the...

Bowerbird: The collections of Peter Atkins and Dana Harris

Her plants, her books - of which she had been a collector from the first hour of her commanding a shilling - her writing-desk, and her works of charity and ingenuity, were all within her reach; or if indisposed for employment, if nothing but musing would do,...

Letter from London

When I first started visiting London regularly, in the latter part of the 1990s, I used to get annoyed at the quantity of American art I would find in the galleries. Had I really travelled so many miles to see things I could have encountered so much more...

Louisa Dawson

As Louisa Dawson tells the story of how her work Temporary displacement, 2005, came into being, the appropriateness of its title soon becomes apparent. Dawson created this garbage-skip-swimming-pool sculpture in Dresden, Germany, while studying as a guest...