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.

Hybridity or Digital Assimilation? The Double Edge of the Multi-Media-Swiss Army Knife • Digital technology has transformed television, cinema, and art, but does artificial intelligence (AI), especially “generative” artificial intelligence (GAI), pose a new threat or reframe an existing one? There is a fear that media specificity—what is distinctive about media forms—may be lost. AI furthers the suspicion that originality and critique may be the next victims of an all-enveloping digital sameness.

The Imagined Landscapes of Maggie May Jeffries • Evoking the spirit of childhood wonder, Maggie May Jeffries’s botanical paintings are just as much about the memories associated with her plant encounters as their pictorial reality.

Warraba Weatherall Counter Power • Warraba Weatherall is fresh from his biggest year yet. Though the Kamilaroi artist insists he “does not like the spotlight,” all eyes are on him. Weatherall talks to Adam Ford about art, archives, power, and what comes next.

Mike Parr Projection is Intervention • All through this last year and more, the day has begun with me reading of the plight of the Palestinians… in the Guardian Australia, the LRB [London Review of Books] and its blog… and then I go to the room for drawing… everything is set-up… everything needed meticulously located near-to-hand… the blinds come down, and in indeterminate light I begin a day saturated with classical music: Mahler symphonies… Shostakovich… Sibelius… Schubert… Schoenberg… Bruckner… Britten…. I’m dragged by something blind, like onomatopoeia or an unknown language and colour…. They’re drawings for and of my dead brother Tim and me…” [Mike Parr in dialogue with Peter Hill, October 2025]

Sensations of Space: Joe Frost • The studio gives me the space and freedom to pursue my curiosity, and that is paramount to the environment of the studio. I like the engagement and I am relieved when I get back there. Joe Frost

The celestial paintings of Leonard Brown

Adam Nudelman: Ineffable Elements • In a multi-disciplinary practice encompassing painting, sculpture, and works on paper, Adam Nudelman is now nearing a thirty-year milestone. The self-described “perfectionist over-painter” has approached his recent output with a renewed vigour informed by two lengthy Europe visits that have refreshed his perspective.

Terry Burrows and his Passage to India (with apologies to E.M. Forster) • Terry Burrows was raised in the town of Coonamble on the central-western plains of New South Wales. In the 1960s his family moved to Sydney, which opened the door to the possibility of a different life. His experience has included working as an artist across various mediums; co-founding Selenium Gallery in Sydney (1991–95); and exploring his deep interest in the holy city of Varanasi in India, a place that has had a profound influence on his work since his first visit in 2005. Burrows moved to Kandos in the mid-western region of New South Wales in 2015.

THIS IS A WOODRIDGE KID SPEAKING • Jake Moss outlines how his exhibitions are developed, from lived experience to spatial form. Drawing on cinema, class experience, and self-initiated projects, he treats...