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?