Art student Mike Barnard’s subtle portrait of his dying mother,You Beautiful Fighter, has won him a finalist spot in the Archibald Prize alongside a string of UNSW alumni.
The beauty of this exhibition is that while it keeps to its theme of investigating Australia’s Scottish legacy, it roams over the entire country, writes Johanna Mendlesohn.
Australian press photographers help record Australian history. So what are we to make of Fairfax's decision to sack its staff photographers and instead source photos from a digital database in the US, asks Phillip George.
Conquest of Space, an exhibition locating contemporary Australian art at the forefront of the nexus of science fiction and art, opens at Galleries UNSW this month.
The establishment of an online database of Australian artists has broken down barriers to make research accessible to all, which means there is no longer any excuse for parochialism, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.
