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Paul McGillickHomeAboutWhat’s newVideosPublicationsContact Paul McGillick architecture — art — design On location in Jakarta.Photo: Masano Kawana ThenLooking back, I realise I’ve always followed my nose. No Plan. I must have a very good guardian angel because somehow it’s always turned for the best.After a stint of school teaching, I ran the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sydney in the mid-1970s. Then I returned to academe, teaching in the post-graduate English as a Foreign Language Programme at Sydney University, running it for some years and hauling in a Master in Applied Linguistics along the way.All the while – nearly 20 years – I lived a double life. From 1985 to 2002 I was Visual and Performing Arts Critic for the Australian Financial Review. In the mid-1990s I was a producer and presenter on SBS TV’s arts show, Imagine as well as writing books and essays on the visual arts and the theatre. I managed to fit in a PhD on ritual in 20th Century theatre, focussing on the work of Australian playwright, Jack Hibberd. Post-Sydney University I taught in undergraduate and post-graduate visual arts and design programmes at the University of New South Wales.Then architecture entered the picture. I edited Monument magazine (twice!) before becoming Editorial Director at Indesign Media. Here, over more than 12 years, I edited Indesign magazine and was founding editor of Habitus magazine in 2009 – collecting a Master in Architecture in the process just to prove I knew what I was talking about. And so as not to waste my television experience, I made a number of videos on architecture and the visual arts.… and nowI’ve published 18 books – on the theatre, the visual arts and architecture, especially residential architecture in S-E Asia – and countless articles and catalogue essays. And after more than a decade as Editorial Director and later Consulting Editor at IndesignMedia I have now switched my attention away from architecture and design and back to the visual arts.Apart from finishing my second novel, Difficulty, I have now also finished Slow Reveal – The Nude in Australian Art. This is a survey of the history and many manifestations of the nude in Australian art up to the present day. The story of the Australian nude is put in the context of international art, socio-cultural developments in Australia, and the many issues thrown up by the nude such as the life class and the naked/nude distinction.I am currently looking for a publisher for Slow Reveal, but for a kind of sneak preview have a look at my article, ‘Birth of Venus – Australia’s First Nude’ in Artist Profile 52. Slow Reveal is pitched at a general readership, but I am now working on another book on the visual arts which applies frame theory to painting, photography and architecture.All the time I continue to work with Dr Bob Jansen on the Cultural Conversations project, an online oral history archive of Australian and South Korean visual artists. Using customised software, the archive offers extensive video interviews with the artists, a parallel transcript and still images of work referred to in the interviews. Recently added are interviews with sculptor, Ron Robertson-Swann, and painters Dick Watkins and Kevin Connor. An interview with curator/printmaker, Akky van Ogtrop will be uploaded soon.What's newJanuary 23, 2022The Magic of Matisseby Paul McGillickNovember 20, 2021John Beard – The Restless Eyeby Paul McGillickMarch 21, 2021The Artist in his Studioby Paul McGillickFebruary 28, 2021A Tasmanian Affair Part 3by Paul McGillickJanuary 26, 2021A Tasmanian Affair Part 2by Paul McGillickJanuary 6, 2021A Tasmanian Affair Part 1by Paul McGillickVideosVisual arts & Architecture videos John Beard in Portugal 1994-1995 On John Beard living in Portugal in mid-1990, for SBS TV's arts show IMAGINE. Sydney Summer Story of a Mural by Alun Leach-Jones Transforming the Legal Workplace Corrs Chambers Westgarth at 8 Chifley Square The Art of Work Macquarie Bank fit-out Legal Connections Clayton Utz fit-out Alex Popov’s Urban Retreat Mosman House Poem in Black and White Surry Hills warehouse Suburban Solution Turning a motocycle repair shop into a home Fred Cress A look at the work of Painter Fred Cress Beautiful & Damned John Beard's paintings of the Victorian landscape Conversations with artistsClick through below to watch selected conversations with artists at cultconv.comYvonne BoagAndrew ChristofidesKevin ConnorMichael JohnsonAlun Leach-JonesRon Robertson-SwannDick WatkinsFrank WattersMajor publicationsHB Design: Selected Architectural Works2016, Tuttle PublishingFalls the Shadow: from Idea to Reality, the National Gallery of Australia (Editor)2015, UROSustainable Luxury: The New Singapore House Solutions for a Livable Future2015, Tuttle PublishingThe Sustainable Asian House: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines2013, Tuttle PublishingIt's Not About The Building - The One Shelley Street Project2011, Veldhoen + CompanyConcrete Metal Glass: Hijjas Kasturi Associates Selected Works 1977-20072008, Editions Didier MilletSydney Architecture: The Making of a Global City2005, Pesaro25 Tropical Houses in Singapore and Malaysia2006, Periplus Editions (HK)Alex Popov: Buildings and Projects2002, Axel MengesSigns of Time: one painting in one hundred parts by Geoffrey de Groen2001, Patrick Corbally StourtonFeatured articles on visual arts, architecture and designVISUAL ARTS:Chong Siew Ying – Habitus I #50Arthur Streeton – Artist Profile I #54Birth of Venus – Artist Profile I #52Geoffrey de Groen – Artist Profile | #40Tony McGillick – Artist Profile | #45Ildico Kovacs – Artist Profile | #46Hugh Ramsay – Artist Profile | #51James Doolin – Artist Profile | #38ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN:Reinventing the campus – Indesign I #81High EQ Mirvac headquarters – Indesign I #72The restless type – Habitus I #48Urban camping – Habitus I #48New housing – Habitus I #47Reframing the past – Habitus I #46Slow living – Habitus | #45Opening pod (Habitus House of the Year) – Habitus | #45Concrete poetry – Habitus | #43Complete list of publicationsSelected publications on architecture and designSelected publications on art and theatreBooks & monographsContributions to booksContacte–mail Paul McGillick at: [email protected] © 2022 Paul McGillick. 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