https://www.graciesandles.comRSS Feed for Grace SandlesenThu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/1dc391a2-1706-48f4-b37d-887139de9926.pdfFrom ancient myths and chivalric code to the exhibition that just opened down the street, desire has been a catalytic force in the world of art since the first human thought to draw on a rock with red ochre.Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/1dc391a2-1706-48f4-b37d-887139de9926.pdfhttps://www.russh.com/wet-leg-moisturizer-album-interview/When Wet Dream, Chaise Longue and Ur Mum came out, my best friend and I would dance and sing around to them while we got ready for university parties. If you weren’t early adopters like us, you doubtless fell in love with Wet Leg when they rocketed up to the stratosphere and into everyone’s ‘On Repeat’ playlists while they accompanied fellow It-Brit Harry Styles on tour. Three years later, Rhian Teasedale, lead singer and songwriter of the band, sat down with me to tell me about their highly-a...Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.russh.com/wet-leg-moisturizer-album-interview/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/74354f9e-fe30-45f0-994b-7f71073fc988.pdfIn her nine decades, Isabella Ducrot has made significant contributions to the field of textile art – as an artist, but also as a collector and theorist. VAULT spoke to Ducrot, who, following her collaboration with Dior on a runway in 2024, has enjoyed a new wave of well-deserved attention.Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/74354f9e-fe30-45f0-994b-7f71073fc988.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/bbf9e02d-d210-49e2-b3e5-c597eb91ac29.pdfVAULT speaks with the Australian Ballet’s Head of Costume Musette Molyneaux ahead of the return of The Sleeping Beauty – and its beloved costumes – in 2025.Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/bbf9e02d-d210-49e2-b3e5-c597eb91ac29.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/8cc97e59-24de-4a6b-a1b4-d5db506dc26e.pdfKlára Hosnedlová hails from the Czech Republic and now lives and works in Berlin. In embroidery, she found freedom and superimposed the technique onto her ubiquitous process – never mind that it was considered part of the ‘applied’ school in her male-dominated fine art education. Triumphantly erecting corporeal, sculptural installations of deconstructed sci-fi landscapes, and performing within them, Hosnedlová enacts her visions of the future and possible utopias, exploring home and its meaning under different political systems.Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/8cc97e59-24de-4a6b-a1b4-d5db506dc26e.pdfhttps://tobemagazine.com.au/memory-is-the-seamstress-calls-dior/Maria Grazia Chiuri loves to name a muse. For this women’s collection, that muse was literary icon Virginia Woolf and her 1920 novel Orlando. For the uninitiated, Orlando follows the namesake character, Orlando, across three centuries. It begins with Orlando as a young nobleman in Elizabeth’s England, then progresses at midpoint to Orlando awakening as a woman and surviving until the novel’s end in the 1920s, a pivotal point in women’s suffrage.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tobemagazine.com.au/memory-is-the-seamstress-calls-dior/https://tobemagazine.com.au/helmut-langs-exhibition-what-remains-behind/Helmut Lang’s first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles, What Remains Behind, at MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Schindler House, consists of ten freestanding sculptures and two hanging pieces. Curated by Neville Wakefield and on view until 4 May, 2025, Lang’s bodily works cut abstract figures in an industrial, wood-panelled, modernist space.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tobemagazine.com.au/helmut-langs-exhibition-what-remains-behind/https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2025_japanese.phpVAULT caught up with Michelle Zauner, the sonic genius behind Japanese Breakfast, ahead of the release of her latest album, For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women).Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2025_japanese.phphttps://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2025_sozzaniCarla Sozzani, doyenne of the Milan fashion and art scene, is an editor, founder of 10 Corso Como and gallerist. A new publication, Carla Sozzani: Art, Life, Fashion, tells the story of her life – including her relationships with her younger sister, Franca, and her friend Azzedine Alaia – and her work, richly illustrated with decades of photography and archival material. Below, VAULT speaks to the author, Louise Baring.Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2025_sozzanihttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5b0cdd89-60fa-4806-b0c1-7054a708cc90.pdfWhen we spoke, Rose Wylie had just celebrated her 90th birthday. She had also just appeared in the recently-launched Loewe campaign, photographed in her studio in Kent. Needless to say, she is booked and busy.Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5b0cdd89-60fa-4806-b0c1-7054a708cc90.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/906cce29-a48d-4a30-8954-88dd4193f1fa.pdfVAULT sat down with First Nations curator and self-proclaimed “conduit for community” Kimberley Moulton to discuss the significant moments that have shaped her stellar career. A Yorta Yorta woman, Moulton has over 15 years of experience curating and writing across historical collections and contemporary artistic practice. She has been appointed Adjunct Curator specialising in First Nations and Indigenous Art at the Tate in London.Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/906cce29-a48d-4a30-8954-88dd4193f1fa.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5c146241-14ba-41f2-8996-349282511d75.pdfThe first major retrospective of pioneering Colombian textile artist Olga de Amaral, known for her use of gold leaf, is the latest major exhibition at Paris’ Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. For the occasion, VAULT considers the nonagenarian’s legacy with the help of curator Marie Perennès.Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5c146241-14ba-41f2-8996-349282511d75.pdfhttps://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_colette.phpGabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s circle included many famous artistic names—Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali, to name a few. Among these, the French literary giant Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known by the mononym of her surname, is perhaps the only female icon of the nation at the time on par with Chanel herself. She was honoured by the most recent CHANEL Les Rendez-vous Litteraires Rue Cambon, an ongoing series convened by Charlotte Casiraghi, this past October.Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_colette.phphttps://tobemagazine.com.au/chanels-birds-of-paradis/In the first half of the 20th century, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel famously mused, “People have always wanted to put me in cages: cages with cushions stuffed with promises, gilded cages, cages that I’ve touched looking away from. I never wanted any other than the one I would build myself.” Fittingly, one of her seamstresses reportedly gifted her a birdcage, which she kept in her apartment at 31 rue Cambon, Paris. In 1991, Vanessa Paradis starred in a campaign film for the COCO fragrance centred on t...Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://tobemagazine.com.au/chanels-birds-of-paradis/https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_Noailles.phpVAULT continues our exploration of the lasting legacy of Surrealism, looking to the little-known art practice of one of the movement’s most influential patrons.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_Noailles.phphttps://tobemagazine.com.au/folklore-and-fancy-over-at-mcqueen/We may all now breathe a collective sigh of relief. While a new creative director’s first show gives us an idea of how they step into the shoes of their new role, it is the sophomore collection that tells us how they’ve learnt to walk in them. And after Saturday, it might be said that Seán McGirr has found his stride in the top job at McQueen. With the recent news of previous creative director Sarah Burton’s move to the top job at Givenchy, it’s reassuring to see that McGirr is up to the task of...Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://tobemagazine.com.au/folklore-and-fancy-over-at-mcqueen/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/b6822120-b9ce-444f-8880-7e4b3ea7b6cf.pdfThe 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani, was titled The Milk of Dreams, drawing its name from British-Mexican Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s eponymous book. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement went to Cecilia Vicuña, whose 1977 Bendígame Mamita was quite literally the poster work for the world’s oldest and most prestigious art festival. VAULT looks at the life and art of the groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary artist.Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/b6822120-b9ce-444f-8880-7e4b3ea7b6cf.pdfhttps://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_cartier.php“Platinum remains white, and diamond will always shine,” Pascale Lepeu, Director of the Cartier Collection, wistfully advises me in a spacious hotel apartment overlooking Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. There’s a statue of a panther prowling across an elegant console above her left shoulder – the Maison’s totemic guardian of sorts.Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra_2024_cartier.phphttps://tobemagazine.com.au/marco-fusinato-on-the-return-of-desastres/Contemporary artist and noise musician Marco Fusinato is bringing his project DESASTRES back to Australia for Now or Never festival. Following a 200-day run at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia in 2022, DESASTRES will be presented on the world’s largest volume screen and showcase tens of thousands of images sourced from an open search.Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://tobemagazine.com.au/marco-fusinato-on-the-return-of-desastres/https://tobemagazine.com.au/chanel-bids-farewell-to-the-impresario-and-says-hello-to-the-opera/Greek American soprano Maria Callas once said, “An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.” Her idea affirms that the baroque Palais Garnier was an apt venue for CHANEL’s first runway show following the unexpected announcement of Virginie Viard’s departure. Viard, who had been with the French luxury house for 37 years, leaves behind a significant legacy. Although her departure is a great loss, the Fashion Creation Studio Team's creation of this collecti...Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://tobemagazine.com.au/chanel-bids-farewell-to-the-impresario-and-says-hello-to-the-opera/https://tobemagazine.com.au/maria-grazia-chiuri-queen-of-scots/I’ve sat enthralled throughout the Resort 2025 season thus far. From Chanel’s showcase atop Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, to Louis Vuitton’s presentation beneath the doric columns of Antoni Gaudi’s Park Güell, the shows have been a sheer triumph of far-flung locales and luxury.Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://tobemagazine.com.au/maria-grazia-chiuri-queen-of-scots/https://unionmagazine.com/anni-hagberg-and-michael-gittings-on-their-thistle-chair/Artists Anni Hagberg and Michael Gittings’ Thistle Chair is the first of an evolving series of collaborations between the two, working together as Pit Projects. Their singular debut piece-cum-exhibition was presented at Melbourne Design Week 2024. UNION spoke to the pair about the nature of their collaborative process, being led by the materiality and how the piece, at once furniture and sculpture, ended up on a plinth.Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://unionmagazine.com/anni-hagberg-and-michael-gittings-on-their-thistle-chair/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/12460b03-05a4-4b79-a65e-697c82ef2ab2.pdfWith a sellout debut solo show at Half Gallery in 2021, Daegu-born, New York-based artist Anna Park’s star is on the rise. Her first museum exhibition outside of the United States – Look, look. Anna Park at Art Gallery of Western Australia – continues the artist’s explorations of contemporary culture with her trademark dark humour. While her largescale black and white compositions went up around us, we spoke about growing up and opening out.Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/12460b03-05a4-4b79-a65e-697c82ef2ab2.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5b7806d9-39d8-490d-9ff4-bd927ea6c7da.pdfVAULT spoke to Mario Cristiani, co-founder of one of Italy’s most loved contemporary art spaces, Galleria Continua.Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/5b7806d9-39d8-490d-9ff4-bd927ea6c7da.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/772d58f3-182d-450f-b724-5d1df1388796.pdfLisa King is a figurative painter working on an epic scale. Multi-disciplinary and known for her large murals, King is a painter of allegory, with the hidden meaning in her works rendered in realism as spectacular public art.Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/772d58f3-182d-450f-b724-5d1df1388796.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/1cfe8a2e-5e7e-4e93-a801-4382706bd984.pdfBérengère Primat has one of the largest collections of Australian Indigenous art in Europe, yet considers herself more ‘enthusiast’ or ‘advocate’ than traditional collector. Fondation Opale, established in 2018, is based on Primat’s collection of over 1,500 works by nearly 350 artists, making it one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary Aboriginal artists in private ownership – and the sole foundation in Europe dedicated to promoting Australian Indigenous art.Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/1cfe8a2e-5e7e-4e93-a801-4382706bd984.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/ae653679-7d76-4e23-b39c-96bb8ca9b9ab.pdfKay Watson, Head of Arts Technologies at Serpentine Galleries, on synthesising the arts landscape and technology ecosystem.Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/ae653679-7d76-4e23-b39c-96bb8ca9b9ab.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/b218a8a1-ae99-4616-9aa0-b6fde375ce56.pdfThe arrival of NFTs has meant a lot of things for the art world. Suddenly, a whole new generation of crypto-native artists embracing digital mediums are finding their counterparts in a new frontier of collectors and enthusiasts. Michelle Grey – co-founder of Arts-Matter and Culture Vault, a curated platform for Web3 art collecting – spoke to VAULT about her own extensive NFT collection,where it began and where it might be going.Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/433732/uploads/b218a8a1-ae99-4616-9aa0-b6fde375ce56.pdf