ARTIST PROFILE | Issue 70

Janet Dawson is this issue’s cover artist. The qualities that have empowered cover artist Janet Dawson to move back-and-forth from figurative to non-figurative works is closely observed in Sasha Grishin’s essay. At the age of 90, her career of six decades is being celebrated in a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 19 July 2025. In our Issue, Lucy Stranger examines conflicting views of how another leading Australian artist, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, should be presented in her first survey exhibition at the Tate Modern, London. Readers will also enjoy profiles on Ebony Russell, Patrick Pound, Linda Sok, Nigel Helyer, Penny Evans, William Mackinnon, G.W. Bot and Peter Graham. Our insight section includes a moving tribute by Eve Sullivan to the late Leon Paroissien, as well as plenty of reviews, previews and essays on artists exhibitions across the country and internationally.