What Artists See: Essays performance Alexandra Hollis

Alexandra Hollis

The artworks shown are accompanied by commentary and analysis unpacking complex issues related to First Nations art-making and culture-making

After the Rain documents the creative processes of 10 contemporary art projects commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia’s major recurrent exhibition dedicated to First Nations art and artists in Australia – the National Indigenous Art Triennial

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What Artists See: Essays performance Alexandra HollisA luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australias best critics Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they do, day after day, in a display of discipline and will? The twelve essays in this collection offer glimpses into the lives of some of Australias best