Monthly Archives: August 2010
Jane Gillings @ NG Art, Gallery
Come Closer (Now Go Away) is the latest solo exhibition by Jane Gillings at NG Art Gallery, Sydney. The work that forms this exhibition is the recycling of and engaging with – what some would call – hoarded waste. Gillings compulsively collects and, by her own admission, hoards before she reassembles by way of embracing and engaging […]
John R Walker responds to Joe Frost's article “Bad words and thoughts”, Issue12:
IN HIS ARTICLE “Bad words and thoughts” in ARTIST PROFILE Issue 12, 2010, Joe Frost writes about the many paradoxical ways of using the term ’modern’. You can have a fair bit of fun with ‘modern’: ‘that Swedish moderne chair looks perfect in your very contemporary 1950s retro-look lounge room’. Most of the time we […]
Jake Walker wins inaugural Arkley Award @ NOTFAIR 2010
IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to the NOTFAIR catalogue, curators Ashley Crawford, Tony Lloyd and Sam Leach, tell us how NOTFAIR 2010 “began, and at heart remains, a humble affair”. What began as a small idea has grown into something that has taken even them by surprise. Coinciding with the behemoth that is Melbourne Art Fair – where the […]
Issue 11
We take you into the studio of a multimedia trailblazer – photographer, light sculptor, collagist, printmaker, public installation artist and all-round intellectual – Brook Andrew. Artist Profile is granted an exclusive interview and discussion of his new work Jumping Castle War Memorial, which will be on show in the 17th Biennale opening 12 May. Another […]

