Swatch and Tate have watches down to a fine art Swatch x Tate watches are a joyful tribute to seven artists, including Matisse, Miró, and Louise Bourgeois Wallpaper · Mar 28, 2024
Is there an upside to insomnia? Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price Salon · Feb 6, 2024
Beyond Form review: the dogged gunk rockers who besieged the art world – and the disco From Bridget Riley’s grids to Louise Bourgeois’s phallic bulges, this show is a glorious celebration of female abstract artists whose often-denigrated work now feels unstoppable The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024
OPINION - London must now defend its status as Europe's best city for art Reflecting on London's art scene from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s ignites a rush of excitement for me, marked by the opening of Tate Modern, the captivating Louise Bourgeois installation at the Turbine Hall, the birth of Frieze Art Fair, the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall, and the emergence… Evening Standard · Jan 19, 2024
'A deeply thoughtful and sensuous show': a rarely experienced intimacy with Louise Bourgeois As you make your way towards the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you will come across the giant sinewy bronze legs of the artist’s monumental sculpture Maman (“mum” in French) looming near the entrance. The Conversation · Dec 4, 2023
Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image review – penises, perfection and Patti Smith This being Mapplethorpe, phallic imagery is in abundance – but do we really need a room of dull celebrity portraits? The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2023
From Tracey Emin to Kiki Smith: National Gallery of Australia puts art by women in the spotlight A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2023
Nightmarish, playful, erotic: the revelatory Sydney show of art titan Louise Bourgeois Spanning almost 130 works – including a number of showstoppers – the Art Gallery of NSW pays homage to the strange fruits of the late artist’s psyche The Guardian - AU · Nov 24, 2023
Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. AAP · Nov 24, 2023
OPINION - Tracey Emin: I've suffered through E.coli hell to see the work of the great Louise Bourgeois It’s 6am in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for about 30 hours now and to be honest I’ve spent most of the time asleep, dreaming. Strange dreams mainly to do with death and journeys and art and fear. In fact, all to do with fear. Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2023
From eerie to obscure, her art the story of being human A new art installation has used the theme of day and night to traverse the spectrum of human emotion and the ideas of the unconscious. AAP · Nov 24, 2023
Ten metres high and 10 tonnes: Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider crawls into Sydney Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition The Guardian - AU · Nov 17, 2023
Power, space and fantasy: what to look out for at Art Basel 2023 Art Basel 2023 (15 – 18 June) unites site-specific pieces with large-scale installations Wallpaper · Jun 12, 2023
A case of heartbreak? I prescribe Tracey Emin’s neons and Paula Rego’s dancers At moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2023
The Guardian - AU · Apr 15, 2023 Too cramped? Too big? No name: Sydney’s newest art gallery weathers critique in its first months As the controversial new gallery known as Sydney Modern makes it through its first summer, visitors and critics are divided on whether it is living up to its promise
The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2023 Top 10 badly behaved biographies Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results
AAP · Feb 14, 2023 Abstract pioneer leads Sydney's blockbuster art line up Seminal works by three of the behemoths of the art world will go on display in Sydney as part of a program designed to attract thousands to the harbour city.
The Guardian - AU · Feb 14, 2023 Bourgeois spiders and Kandinsky masterpieces: Sydney set for a summer of blockbuster art Exhibitions for Paris-born sculptor, the pioneering Russian painter and ‘one of the greatest living artists’ are all headed for Australia this summer
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022 ‘I find myself choked up with the emotions’: TikTok’s trainspotter sensation Francis Bourgeois Celebrity and trainspotter are not words you see together very often. But Francis Bourgeois’ unique style and infectious enthusiasm is proving to be a ‘hellfire’ hit
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022 girls girls girls review – Simone Rocha curates a dazzling display of art by women The fashion designer has brought together an impressively varied international collection of heavy hitters and emerging artists in a fairytale setting
The Conversation · Mar 8, 2022 Feminist stories and dangerous bodies: Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Julienne van Loon I first discovered Siri Hustvedt through her best known novel, What I Loved (2003), which caught my attention through Janet Burroway’s review in the New York Times: “that rare thing: a page turner at full intellectual stretch”.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2022 What links Louise Bourgeois to Jay-Z’s comeback album? As the artist gets a London retrospective, take a dive down the rabbit hole via Gwyneth Paltrow’s house and Kara Walker
The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2022 Needle and dread: Louise Bourgeois’s disturbing textile works Severed heads, fraying stitches and exposed bodily orifices feature in a new exhibition of the artist’s late works in fabric
The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2022 Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review – everyday horror shows that reel you in Strange, horrific, eerie, beautiful, this huge survey reveals an artist who both embraced and disdained the female realm
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2022 Sex, stitches and psychic wounds – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review These sewn-together body parts – dangling from the ceiling, hung out on stands or having sex in vitrines – were created in the final decades of the artist’s long career. They are provocative, scary and marvellous