Chloé Wolifson

Mar 27, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

In 2013, the world’s most famous art fair, Art Basel, appended the name of an Asian city to its European one, establishing Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK). That recognition of the commercial and cultural potential of this regional centre to a Western-centric art world has been realised, with the fair now attracting myriad satellite events to this globally significant hub.

Sep 6, 2024 | smh.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

By Chloe Wolifson September 6, 2024 — 4.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ARTCharles & Barbara Blackman: A Decade of Art and LoveChristabel Blackman. Thames & Hudson, $59.99It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that a book dedicated to a decade in the life of a couple, written by their child and based on the discovery of a cache of old love letters, could be a bit of a navel-gazer.

Apr 23, 2024 | artguide.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

Julia Gutman works with textiles donated by family and friends, creating layered figurative tableaux referencing personal and shared histories, which often recall imagery from canonical paintings. In mid-2022 she presented her first solo exhibition, Muses, at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, prior to which she was a finalist in the 2021 Ramsay Prize and was awarded the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship.

Jan 8, 2024 | smh.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

Fellow Indigenous artist Tony Albert refers in his essay, Anarchy in the monarchy, to "'Guerilla' humour, which is a tactic used in Blackfella art to make whitefellas laugh at themselves. Let's be honest, as Aboriginal men we have much more luck interrogating white nuances through a joke than by pointing the finger." When painting those he respects and admires, such as Indigenous elders and senior artists, Namatjira draws on portraiture's power to confer dignity and heroism.

Jan 7, 2024 | artshub.com.au | Chloé Wolifson

On the day I visited Ngununggula to see the exhibition New Dog Old Tricks, the grounds of the gallery were busy with canines and their owners. The curators know their audience, having chosen to mark the summer exhibition season with an exhibition presenting the dog as key to other worlds. The ubiquitous presence of the dog in Australian society is explored throughout the exhibition.