The art world is a funny universe. It operates on a multitude of levels: the artists, the public galleries, the commercial galleries, the curators, art writers and critics. For the most part, the community is strong and supportive. It’s an exciting industry that has the ability to enact change and provoke thought. Art can be [...]
Issue 21 of Artist Profile Out Now, featuring Sydney Ball on the cover!
Issue 20 of ARTIST PROFILE goes into the studio of sculptor, Sam Jinks, whose life-like forms capture the expanse of an individual’s lifetime in a single moment. We hear from Jinks about what underpins his practice and artistic vision. Caroline Rothwell takes us through the untold stories from natural history that informs her sculptural practice [...]
Artist Profile is a proud Media Partner to the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair (MAF). Here is a sneak peak inside the issue that focuses on those artists exhibiting at this year’s fair. Issue 19 | A Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition Featuring | SALLY SMART + JAMES MORRISON Also inside | CHRIS AERFELDT + CLINTON NAIN + PETER ATKINS + [...]
An exhibition of works by 13 artists in response to the Australian desert, Not the Way Home is my next curatorial project. In May 2011, ARTIST PROFILE led 13 Australian artists to Fowlers Gap – an Arid Zone Research Station managed by UNSW – for an arts laboratory that asked each of them to respond [...]
By flicking through the pages of our current edition, you will notice it is a break from our standard format. That’s because many of the artists featured in the issue took part in an artist expedition to the arid desert of north-west New South Wales, sponsored by ARTIST PROFILE in conjunction with artist material specialists [...]
Sam Leach’s paintings are stunningly rendered and haunting in their subject matter. He paints to investigate the natural world and the ways we relate to it, assembling visual cues from historical painting, scientific pursuits and modern technology to populate his uncanny compositions. For our cover story this issue, Sam Leach welcomed us into his studio [...]
Art making is an immensely personal and private practice. Whether an artist is a painter or a photographer, a sculptor or a printmaker, they use their chosen medium to navigate their thoughts, ideas and world views. In an age where everyone is increasingly connected through new technologies, artists are some of the remaining few whose occupation sees much of their [...]
Last week saw the launch of not the way home :: painting the far west, a working title for the next artist project led and sponsored by ARTIST PROFILE, managed by Owen Craven. Proudly sponsored by Winsor & Newton, the tour will also be followed by ABC Open under producer Sean O’Brien. not the way home will [...]
Katrina Lobley compiled today’s Sydney Morning Herald’s Spectrum Planner and included On This Island’s final showing at King Street Gallery: “Eleven artists headed across the Tasman in 2009 to paint the North Island’s Mount Ruapehu and Castlepoint. The touring show, curated by art mag wunderkind Owen Craven, makes its final stop in Darlinghurst. See what [...]
Issue 13 of ARTIST PROFILE is now on the news stand. Our cover artists for this exciting issue include Judy Watson, Brisbane-based indigenous artists whose work is highly celebrated around the globe, + Marco Fusinato, whose politically motivated work explores a multitude of mediums from photography to sound and light installations. Other exciting features include [...]
Issue 12 of ARTIST PROFILE is now on sale. Cover artist profiles and conversations with George Gittoes + Deborah Kelly. Other exclusive interviews include Lara Merrett, Moya McKenna, Tim Maguire, Penny Byrne, Godwin Bradbeer and I speak with Italian artist Giacomo Costa. The issue is packed with news + essays + reviews and I’ve collated [...]
Opening 9 July, 2010 On This Island, Meeting and Parting: eleven prominent artists paint New Zealand opens at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. An ARTIST PROFILE exhibition curated by Owen Craven. Until 22 August, 2010.
Owen Craven launches his new website. For further information on projects, news, reviews and more stay tuned to www.owencraven.com
