ABOUT

Artist Profile presents the artists behind the art. Since its inception in 2007, Artist Profile has been a leading quarterly journal taking readers into the studios where artistic work is created, and the critical discussions where its reception is shaped. They commission original work from writers, artists, scholars and other creators to stimulate debate about what it means to live and work as a visual artist today.

With a focus on Australasia, they engage both established and emerging artists in conversations about their practices, and the personal, social, and cultural histories which shape them. They publish these conversations alongside exclusive portraits of the artists in their studios. A program of reviews, previews, essays, poetry, posters and artists in the first person accompanies this work, providing a sharp critical perspective on visual culture in the present, as well as the past which shapes it, and the future it looks forward to.

The team at Artist Profile acknowledge and pay our respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which they work. They are proudly published by Bandicoot Publishing Pty Ltd.

THIS ISSUE
Editor’s Note

The portrait of Jordan Gogos on the cover of this issue of Artist Profile, accompanied by the phrase “out of the box,” aligns the artist and fashion designer for Iordanes Spyridon Gogos with ideas of experimentation, collaboration and disruption that challenge what is considered “conventional” in art and fashion. This attitude has driven both his innovation and critical perspective—qualities recognised by Lisa Havilah when Gogos was still in his early twenties.

– Kon Gouriotis, Editor