What Artists See: Essays performance Vincent’s witty and moving paintings

Vincent’s witty and moving paintings are accompanied by evocative text

and Bahar Sayed & Gemma Weston

Alexandra Hollis

After the Rain documents the creative processes of 10 contemporary art projects commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia’s major recurrent exhibition dedicated to First Nations art and artists in Australia – the National Indigenous Art Triennial

What Artists See: Essays performance Vincent’s witty and moving paintingsA luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australias best critics Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they do, day after day, in a display of discipline and will? The twelve essays in this collection offer glimpses into the lives of some of Australias best