Letterbox, Bisque, Ampersand, Qwerty, typography, League, Berber, death to Helvetica
Interview with Lilian Darmono
Motionographer, Art Director, London, illustration, animation, styeframes
Artist Sam Leach
Wildlife, Adelaide, Archibald, Sam Leach, Melbourne, Exhibition, 17th century Dutch painting, Next billion years
Comic book artist Andie Tong
Comics, Spectacular Spider man, Perth, Batman, He-Man , Western Australia, London, Superman, TMNT
The Archibald Prize 2009 Finalists have been announced, you can see which ones made the cut at SMH, or you can check out all the finalists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the 7th March – 24th May 2009.
Dan McPharlin creates abstract imagery depicting space travel and exploration of distant worlds, reminiscent of 70’s science fiction art. Dan also builds miniature analogue synths
April 2009: Perth band Umpire have just released their first album, appeared live just twice (the last to a sold out album launch show in
Currently half way through an Associate degree in Multimedia design in Sydney’s Billie Blue College of Design, 19 year old Zena Santos has already had
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I wonder if the inclusion of an artistique portrait of an aboriginal child is as much of a national/historical cliché for Australia as one of, say, a Mountie in red serge or an inukshuk would be here.
Also note: Even Australian aboriginals have more than one ethnic type, so why is the iconography dominated by this ethnic type? I may be sensitive to this because it is no big deal in Canada to find blond-haired métis, for example, so this sort of thing looks like stereotyping two ways.
Joe Clark, March 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm