For the past three years, Nunzio Madden’s paintings have played host to one character and one character only. Musclebound and jaundiced, it is a plain anatomy of disquieting features: its head, bald as an egg and tiny relative to its hypermasculine, double-linebacker shoulders, hangs expressionless above a Ken-smooth crotch. Madden’s recent exhibition at KINGS, titled […]

Melbourne Art Ephemera Archive was established by Liam Vaughan in 2020, with a specific focus on collecting and cataloguing materials produced by artist-run, offsite and other non-institutional spaces. These documents consist of roomsheets, flyers, posters, social media posts, essays and so on, which often fall outside the remit of larger institutional collecting practices. Yet these […]

On the occasion of Andrea Illés’ performance, no rock, no flower (West Space, 6 September – 25 October 2025), her collaborator Tom Denize reflects on the ungraspable nature of Illés’ work. Illés is a performance artist whose work has been featured at SOFT CENTRE, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (NZ), Visual Diary, and more. Her […]

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, […]

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent)21 June – 10 August 2025Gertrude Contemporary The videos that A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva, Geoff Lowe, et al.) made in the mid-00s are considerably more pared down than their earlier and their later ones. There is no speech. The Melbourne-born, Paris-based artist […]

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 […]