Jarrett Reynolds doesn’t mind if you wear your Nike c/o Virgil Abloh running gear out to the club or on your next half-marathon. Either option, he says, is “awesome”. Reynolds, who’s the Senior Design Director for apparel and special projects at Nike, has worked on some pretty major Nike fashion collabs across his 17-year tenure, including Virgil Abloh. I spoke to Jarrett about the latest Off-White collab, Athlete In Progress.
Read MoreJamie Preisz describes his style with a paintbrush as “contemporary realism”, and his wardrobe as “art slob chic.” I hang out with Jamie and his cherry red 1963 Alpine Sunbeam for a night and asked him where it all began, who he’s following, and where he is headed. Oh, and what he wears to paint and to art parties. For Threads, for Urban List.
Read More“Together I think we've got a groovy goo going on.” I spoke to Gotye about his spiritual grandfather—Jean-Jacques Perrey—and all the wonders of the ondioline. For Broadsheet Sydney.
Read MoreDecades later, at lunch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with Adam Cullen to celebrate his 2000 Archibald triumph, Cullen queried his older peer as to whether it was true that Greenberg had once identified Watkins as the greatest painter Australia had to offer. For VAULT Magazine.
Read More“I will paint, as I have always done, my father’s Country. It is my tjukurpa, my memories, my Country.” Introducing the incredible Pepai Jangala Carroll for Art Collector Magazine.
Read MoreWhat began as an artistic exploration into, and meditation on, the throws of his own devastating chronic illness, has become a complex flight into the realm of life and death, science, medicine, humanity, and history. Introducing John A Douglas for Art Collector Magazine.
Read More“Photography has such a significant connection to a truth-claim, but at the same time images are so fragmented and manipulated." —Introducing Asheligh Garwood, for Art Collector Magazine.
Read MoreJamaican born and a Harlem local, Ward is deeply absorbed in the potential of art and language—in meaning layered on thick via choice materials, discarded objects, symbols—and a considered exercise of semantics. Another of my favourite interviews, with artist Nari Ward for MUSEUM.
Read MorePerhaps somewhat symbolically, it’s Barton’s relentless, fiery imagination that has forever been the spark and the burning hot core of her work. On Del Kathryn Barton for VAULT Magazine.
Read MoreWhen asked what his design philosophy is, Shigeru Ban says simply “I look for a problem to solve by design.” I met Shigeru Ban during his recent layover in Sydney, for Indesign.
Read MoreThe other wall of Quilty’s studio is lined with portraits – roaring faces, struck with the effervescence of emotion, and then occasionally long, twisted noses. One of my favourite studio visits, with Ben Quilty, for Broadsheet.
Read MoreI first met Dion about four years ago, unloading a bale of steel sculptures off the back of his oversized, roaring 1984 F100 pick up. I was his gallerist, and we were installing Night Rider – a captivating series of work that just about sold out within the first hour of opening. Visiting the home of my friend Dion Horstmans for Habitus Magazine.
Read MoreBest recognised for his rain-soaked skate loop, Storm Sequence, Gladwell’s signature slow-motion sequences capture his skill and prowess as a skater, and place a steady, hypnotic veil over otherwise harsher moments, movements and elements. An exhibition walk-through with Shaun Gladwell, for Broadsheet.
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