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  1. Michael Armitage in The Saturday Paper.

    The Kenyan painter Michael Armitage makes ravishing paintings of everyday life in Nairobi. Past and the present, heroes and villains meet in pictures that recall Goya as seen through an especially painterly kaleidoscope. I profiled Armitage for The Saturday Paper while he was in Sydney for his show The Promised Land a couple of months […]


  2. Kaye Donachie

    First published in Vault magazine, April 2015.  To be a painter at the start of the 21st century is to find yourself in thrall to the technical overtures of those that have come before you but Kaye Donachie prefers the kinetic to the aesthetic. When the Glasgow-born artist talks about her process, it’s with an […]


  3. Jelena Telecki

    First published in Vault magazine, Issue #8 November 2014  Jelena Telecki knows that formative influences only reveal themselves in retrospect. When the Sydney-based artist was growing up in Communist-era Yugoslavia in the eighties, she couldn’t have predicted that Gustav, a Hungarian cartoon whose grey-clad protagonist skitters between optimism and fatalism, would become an unlikely mascot […]