Galleries Archive

You would never have a Midnight Oil today. In a career that has spanned thirty years, The Oils have stepped on political toes, bit the corporate hand that fed them, always taken the hard line and never taken a step back. As …

Jim Moginie is perhaps best known as a member of iconic Australian band, Midnight Oil. His musicality and vision helped shape the sound of the Oils taking them far from their early pub rock thunder into a highly original and sophisticated sound …

Once again, the Biennale has taken over Sydney, adding hyper-excitement, colour and zing to a number of venues around our already zinging, parti-coloured city. The 2014 Biennale curator, Juliana Engberg, has situated what she terms the festival’s more “liminal, libidinous and liquious” …

  Daniel Boyd and electro duo Canyons are collaborating at the Sydney Festival with 100 Million Nights. The first sign that Daniel Boyd is an artist is his sneakers, which are a Pollock-like palette of splattered paint. Looking down at his shoes, …

Conceptual art divides people as fiercely and clearly as it divided the Old from the New early in the 20th  Century. Art that can be an idea, or a mere instruction or a thought – often independent of a material resolution or …

Australia and America share many similarities historically. Both are young countries, both are built on a pioneering spirit, and both were quick to create their own mythologies, royalties and national characters from the very start. Taking in the Art Gallery of New …

Gotta love the street art out West where cars are thirsty and guns make nightmares sleep. These are real tuna heads in all their oily splendour bolted to a telegraph pole (formerly known as a tree). “Hey Henry, did you see the …

Drawing has often been seen as the poor cousin of painting. Smaller, more spindly, less colourful – drawing and graphic arts such as printmaking, by their nature, can lack painting’s drama and spectacle. But graphic art has its own power and charm. …

My Bloody Underground is the latest series of paintings by Sydney-based artist Goran Tomic exhibiting during this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival at the Seymour Centre. MegaphoneOZ caught up with him for a brief conversation. Q: The last time we spoke you were …

More than fifty sculptures are on display at the Darling Park Building as part of the Sculptors Society (juried) exhibition until the end of this month. The Society holds four to five exhibitions in Sydney each year to promote the work of …