The Cooperative'Here the people spread out across and remain embedded in the soil. It always was and always will be Wiradjiru because country holds us and we hold it'
Thilini Niruja NuskeDeceived by her eyes202057x76cmBallpoint pen on paper Deceived by her eyes by Thilini Niruja Nuske is the winner of the WMQ Award at the 2020 Art from the Margins Queensland Outsider Art Awards. Thilini’s works explore themes of...
Janice McRandal‘The difficulty, then, is not simply to step outside of Feuerbachian projection. There is no simple or directly available outside. The difficulty is to open up within our projections, within the mutually implicated meanings of God/s and self, a...
When my eyes can’t see past the given image, blue, spring skies really do bring relief, but, more than that, they remind me that new possibilities and ways of seeing exist.
'I am tossed around, around and around...'
'In the hypercognitive western society, where intellect and reason are prized over love and relational connections, the fear of loss of cognition drives our response to dementia...'
“She does not represent her lover; she presents her lover at the threshold of appearing and fading away. Painting lets her see—and show—this sacred threshold that opens all presence.”
'The choice of colours, the thickness and length of the wool all work together to create possibilities within the highly structured grid of the canvas backing. There was a sense in which the relationship between these limitations and possibilities...
When reading this painting you will discover key ideas to understanding Aboriginality or the Aboriginal way of seeing, what you may call spirituality. It is a vertical slice through the universe or country – sky, water and the earth above and below...
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art”
Susan Sontag