Andrew McIlroy
- Aug 19
“For me it is / To be human”: The Art of Carlos Barrios
Having relocated to Australia from war-ravaged El Salvador in 1990, Carlos Barrios, at the young age of 24, had already lived a life more...
Andrew McIlroy
- Jul 11
'No place for cowards’: The artist’s new role in the fight against gentrification in Squizzy Taylor’s Fitzroy
It seems commonly understood that low-paid residents, poor communities, migrants and artists are often displaced, forced from their homes...
Andrew McIlroy
- Apr 8
Long live the ‘lunatics, inebriates and idiots’: How the tokenism of ‘inclusion’ fails artists
The ‘Kew Lunatic Asylum’ built between 1856 and 1872, a complex of majestic Italianate and French Empire styled buildings set high on a...
Andrew McIlroy
- Mar 6
From Montparnasse to Glenhuntly: How Fat Bob’s Café on Melbourne's fringe became a haven for artists, musicians and other misfits
Once dotted with Victorian mansions, many demolished in the early twentieth century to make way for new housing and stores for...
Andrew McIlroy
- Jan 30
Damien Hirst’s ‘The Secret Gardens’ and NGV Triennial playfully bump still life and flowers to the forefront of contemporary art
To say Damien Hirst’s paintings do not exactly compare to the Old Masters is a predictable understatement. However, scathing critics (of...
Andrew McIlroy
- Jan 25
George Bell to Mirka Mora: The emergence of the artists’ studio in Madame Brussel's Bohemian Melbourne
In the late 1880’s Madame Brussels was a notorious brothel owner with several exclusive establishments or 'flash houses' from Bennett’s...
Andrew McIlroy
- Jan 10
NGV Triennial: How a 20th century architectural masterpiece triumphantly embraces old and new art
Though anticipating a backlash to his postmodernist designs for a new National Gallery of Victoria in conservative Melbourne in the...
