This transcript is taken from two interviews conducted in June 2025 at Yusi Zang’s Gertrude Contemporary studio in Preston South. Born in Beijing, Zang moved to Naarm / Melbourne in 2014 to study Fine Arts at Monash University, and has since solidified a practice across painting and sculpture, exhibiting at an impressive schedule in artist-run, […]

There’s a certain kind of art that insists too much on being art — polished, declared, and coded for legibility. Then there’s Lilly Skipper. Her work operates at a frequency too low for immediate classification, too dry for spectacle, and too structurally odd to be comfortably consumed. And yet, it lingers — not because it […]

The English artist Ti Parks spent almost exactly a decade in Naarm / Melbourne. Arriving in 1964, after a stint in art school he was featured in the Young Contemporaries exhibitions of Swinging London, where generations of bright Brits cut their teeth (the 1963 iteration included both Parks and a young chap called David Hockney). […]

Something like a laboratory, Hugo Blomley has litres of chemicals stacked in the corner of his studio. Two separate workbenches are covered with drills and hardware, screws and nails, discarded moulds, half-opened adhesives tubes and mislabelled plastic bottles. Another bench wraps around the perimeter of the space littered with scales, epoxy, bottles of acetone, a […]

Exhibition: Wardrobing Artist: Mitchel Cumming Gallery: Disneyland Paris In a recent piece for Artlink art historian and critic Tara Heffernan raises suspicions around the ubiquity of care discourse as a subgenre of contemporary art discourse. Heffernan observes that ‘talk of care in the arts—like earlier theories buttressing relational aesthetics—echo the benevolent language that similarly glosses […]

Exhibition: Ruu – Examination Artist: Curtis Taylor Gallery: Sweet Pea ‘Ruu is the Martu word for examination, mainly coming from the old Manyjilyjarra language’, explains Curtis Taylor. It means ‘to have a look, reveal something, or to sort of look at miscellaneous things’. It’s the day before the opening and Taylor has just unwrapped a […]

Artist: Warsan Mohammed Curator: Anna Emina El Samad Exhibition details: SchoolHouse Gallery, 12 – 25 November The walls of SchoolHouse Gallery are painted green and brown. I catch a glimpse of this through the window of the gallery, which looks out onto the SchoolHouse parking lot from where I stand. It is the first time […]

Artists: Quishile Charan and Zaiba Khan Gallery: West Space During my time indoors I’ve taken to using mycelium as metaphor. Mycelium, a root-like structure comprised of hyphae —fine white filaments — is the part of a fungus that gathers nutrients from which the fruit — the mushroom — can grow.[^1] A complex network, mycelia are […]