Artist Profile

Artist Profile is a leading quarterly journal taking its readers into the studios and minds of contemporary artists across Australasia and beyond. Industry professionals engage leading practitioners and emerging talent in conversations about their art, in their own words, while our exclusive photo shoots provide intimate access into artists’ personal and working lives. Readers gain knowledge of artists’ methods, preview works in progress and discover the life experiences that ignite artistic imaginations.

Artist Profile

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Editor’s Note • Artist Profile acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work.

Part 2: Does the demand for accountability really account for art? • Increasingly, the artist’s biography comes to overshadow their art. This article seeks to challenge the focus on the artist, not by separating the artist from their work but by exploring richer theoretical frameworks by which to interpret art.

Join the tour • Travel with ACE Italy to experience the Venice Biennale & Florence’s Hidden Art Treasures

Mark-making and deep time: Harrison Bowe on the edge of Tasmania • Harrison Bowe’s artworks are not just a way of sharing his experiences of the Tasmanian bush, but also a study of deep time. He’s fascinated by the “emotive qualities” of these ancient landforms sculpted by glacial forces, and the remaining rocks that pre-date life itself.

GARY WILLIS: The Masked Traveller • Gary Willis’s life and career are best characterised as a journey by a peripatetic masked traveller who leaves behind evidence that marks the human condition. He moves across decades, personal relationships, and various cities, constantly shifting gears, engaging in performances, happenings, and installations early on to finally embracing painting as a poetic form of expression.

Jim Lambie: The Language of the City • Jim Lambie returns to Australia for his third solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, in February 2026. From Glasgow, where he lives and works, Lambie discusses his early plans for this exhibition, the perennial interests and systems that underlie his practice, and the roles of space and presence in contemporary art.

Lee’s Metropolis • Rosemary Lee’s drawings reveal quiet intensity and meditative stillness. Merging abstraction and perception, her disciplined practice invites contemplation through refined material sensitivity and exceptional drawing mastery.

Deborah Halpern: Whimsical Joy • The artworks of Deborah Halpern OAM are wonderous enmeshments of joy and intricate technicality. Her practice embraces various speeds, from quick and gestured paintings to measured and meticulously laboured sculptures. Regardless of the selected medium, the works are imbued with a sense of blissful whimsy.

Paul Hopmeier • The positive moment of practising what it does not understand FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Shanti Shea An • In Shanti Shea An’s beautifully understated paintings, the limit of the painting itself emerges as a profound experience. She takes uncannily familiar scenes and everyday moments as her subject matter. Her intuitive nature explores relationships between intimacy and distance, reality and mediation, knowing and not knowing.

Alex Hamilton • For more than four decades, Alex Hamilton has explored how cities are not just physical structures but repositories of experience. His practice, at once analytical and intuitive, treats the built environment as a site of memory and imagination. Through this lens, the urban landscape becomes both subject and metaphor: a place continually reconstructed by perception, nostalgia, and time’s quiet erosion.

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The Spectral and Speculative Works of Sue Kneebone • Sue Kneebone conjures ancestral ghosts and hidden histories...