back issue

The Spring issue of Art &Australia turns its steady gaze to the medium of painting.

“Although it has been the fashion in recent decades to look at painting with the eye of a diagnostician, or even an undertaker - one lens trained on the heart monitor, the other scanning the death notices - it is with great relief that we can now move on from this deathbed vigil. Which is to say that no one today much believes in painting's death, nor in its trumpeted return or 'triumph'. Which is to say we can get back to the simple and important act of looking.”

Katrina Schwarz, Editor

The question of how to look at the lustrous and creamy paintings of Ben Quilty is answered in an expansive essay by Dougal Phillips, with the imperative 'go deeper'. Louis Nowra writes on Joe Furlonger's prodigious output and torrid painterly experiments, while Louise Martin-Chew finds music and poetry in the work of Sam Fullbrook. Alison Kubler finds a hotbed of talent in her survey profile of young Queensland painters and Mandy Sayer finds much to ponder in John Brack's portrait of Mrs Edna Everage.


Vol 45 No 1 Spring 2007