Quentin Sprague on the art of looking

01/10/2025 25 min
Quentin Sprague on the art of looking

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To write about art is really to write about looking. About how artists meet the world: what they notice; what slips through; what remains.In What Artists See, Quentin Sprague turns to twelve Australian artists, but Sprague doesn't just list their works, he lingers with how they see: what pulls at their attention and what do they uncover when the world pushes back?Speaking with Micheal Do, Quentin interrogates: when we look at art, what are we really seeing?