Artist profiles

A profile sat somewhere between a news item and a full interview: a close look at one artist at a particular moment. Every profile here is of someone working in Australia or New Zealand.

The set opens in April 2012 with Luke Cornish, the Melbourne stenciller known as E.L.K., in the week his portrait made the Archibald Prize finalists, a first for a stencil. Fred Fowler, one of Melbourne’s early street artists, follows in 2014 with New Landscapes, two years after finishing a master’s in contemporary art. Cam Scale appears twice: at the end of 2015 for a big mural in Geelong, To The Unknown Mariner, and in 2016 for State of Mind. Andrew J. Steel, who paints some of the largest public walls in New Zealand, was introduced early in 2016. Mic Porter, part of Melbourne graffiti since the early 2000s, closes the section in May 2017.