Articles
Getting Personal with Vince Jones
April 27, 2019 | troublemaginterview by Steve Proposch
Vince Jones remembers playing in the Wollongong under 10s soccer team. “I was born in Paisley, just outside of Glasgow. My dad ran out of steam for Scotland at the time. He wanted to go somewhere … Read More
Happy Birthday Comics
April 6, 2019 | troublemagTrouble turned 15 in April 2019, and for our birthday issue we wanted to thank by way of featuring some of our past comic contributors, who have been a highlight for us throughout the years. Many of these beautiful and … Read More
SALON March 2019
March 13, 2019 | troublemagMARCH 2019 COVER: Peter DOMBROVSKIS, Pencil pine at Pool of Siloam, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania 1982. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia and the Estate of Peter Dombrovskis. Dombrovskis: journeys into the wild, Monash Gallery of Art, … Read More
The Prophet from Lebanon
March 13, 2019 | troublemagKahlil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet, until 17 March, 2019
Immigration Museum, Melbourne
by Inga Walton
One of my dearest dreams is this – somewhere, a body of work, say fifty or seventy-five pictures will be hung together in … Read More
Julian Schnabel: At Eternity’s Gate
March 13, 2019 | troublemagA DEEP TROUBLE INTERVIEW
with Dr Mark Halloran
Can a movie speak to the intense swirl of feeling and aliveness that goes into painting? It was the seeming impossibility of this task which beckoned to Julian Schnabel as he created … Read More
Love & Desire
February 11, 2019 | troublemagPre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA
Until 28 April 2019
Love & Desire explores the themes of love, desire, romance, betrayal, faith, nature, science, religion, society, rebellion, the femme fatale and the celebrity of the ‘rock-star’ artists … Read More
SALON February 2019
February 11, 2019 | troublemagCOVER FEBRUARY 2019: Lucas IHLEIN, Kim WILLIAMS, and community collaborators, Legumes growing at the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, April 2018 (detail). Photo by Jac Kotze. Image courtesy of the artist and Watershed Land Art Project. Shapes of Knowledge, MUMA, Monash University Museum, … Read More
The Queen Must Die!
February 10, 2019 | troublemagAn Australia Day Reflection (satire)
by Ben Laycock
I don’t celebrate Australia Day, because l am a traditionalist. The blackfellas have a long tradition of not celebrating Australia Day, dating back many thousands of years. It is this ancient tradition … Read More
Mr Todd Goes to Florence
February 10, 2019 | troublemagby Inga Walton
In the cavernous rooms of what was once the old Terminus Hotel in Ararat, renowned artist Geoff Todd has been completing three large-scale works in time for them to embark on a protracted and expensive journey to … Read More
DT Season 2 – Preview
February 10, 2019 | troublemagwith Dr Mark Halloran
In Season 2 Deep Trouble gets deeper. First we meet the impressive Benjamin Gilmour to talk about his Academy Award nominated film Jirga. Originally scheduled to shoot in Pakistan, Ben and his small crew were forced … Read More
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April 27, 2019 | troublemag
Mandy Ord – COMIC SUPREME
Trouble met Mandy Ord at a comic con called Supanova in 2008, when the popular culture convention was expanding into Melbourne for the first time. We were immediately attracted to her inky alternative narratives, … Read More
Trouble November 2017
November 7, 2017 | troublemag
November issue FEATURES: Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize Salon, Comics Face by Ive Sorocuk, The Madness of Art: Close Encounters by Jim Kempner, House on Fire – Ian Strange : Open Home by Robert Ruckus, NOVEMBER Salon, Finding the Art … Read More
Glen Clarke : A History of Violence
February 3, 2015 | troublemag
CATALOGUE ESSAY
Rajesh Punj
There is an impressive complexity of paper and pattern that constitutes the work of Australian artist Glen Clarke. A heady cocktail of politics, economics and aesthetics are neatly folded into each of the origami styled … Read More
ACTease September 2014
September 1, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
It was with a heavy heart that I put fingers to keyboard for this final ACTease instalment. I have thoroughly enjoyed compiling this column each month and have never been short of amazing exhibitions to … Read More
ACTease August 2014
August 1, 2014 | troublemag
Courtney Symes
What makes you happy? Eleven weeks ago I gave birth to my second child, and one of the things I missed most during pregnancy was running. I tried to run for as long (and as gently … Read More
ACTease JULY 2014
July 1, 2014 | troublemag
Having spent most of my childhood years growing up on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific, I was excited to discover that one of the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibitions, Atua: Sacred gods from Polynesia (until 3 August) … Read More
ACTease JUNE 2014
June 2, 2014 | troublemag
One of the secrets of a successful landscape artist and landscape photographer, I believe, is their ability to interpret and capture light in their works. Landscape paintings are a personal favourite of mine, and I had high hopes for … Read More
ACTease May 2014
May 1, 2014 | troublemag
What is the most obscure name you have ever seen for an art exhibition? Like choosing a title for a book or film, deciding on a title for an exhibition is an important part of the creative process. It’s … Read More
ACTease April 2014
April 2, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What is your favourite children’s book? No matter how hard I try, I can’t choose one. Now that my eldest daughter is nearly two, I have to confess that I’m enjoying rediscovering my old favourite … Read More
ACTease March 2014
March 3, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
The things that inspire artists constantly amaze and excite me. It could be a word, a feeling, their home or local environment and surroundings that trigger the greatest creative sparks. The beauty of these humble … Read More
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Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
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