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Australian sculptor Ron Mueck has created an assembly of facsimile, astonishingly lifelike and expressively distorted bodies: desiccated grannies, outsized babies, towering teens. The Mueck-world they inhabit is a compelling and uncanny place which owes much to the artist's early career in children's television production and animatronics. In this issue of Art &Australia, Mueck is paired with artists, working with the medium of video

Vol 45 No 2 Summer 2007

Helen Johnson

'HOW IT IS.' In one of Helen Johnson's recent paintings, a young woman is seated on a modernist chair with her back turned to us, shoulder-length dark hair swinging, as she slowly unpicks these words painted on a wall. Our eye is pulled from the graphic...

George Gittoes: Art, war and videotape

George Gittoes is best described as someone who has single-mindedly pursued many paths, often at the same time. It is only now, in his maturity, that it is possible to see how all his apparently disparate achievements are indeed footsteps in the one elaborate...

Ron Mueck: The Un-Special Effects Man

When I reviewed Ron Mueck's exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in January 2003 I wondered, 'Is Mueck Australia's greatest living artist? Or is he simply a fine model maker who can pull in the crowds, make them gasp with astonishment, but leave...

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