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The Artists behind the Art || Issue 71 Out Now!
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Ebony Russell’s piped porcelain sculptures explo

I approached the exhibition Thinking Together: Exc

I approached the exhibition Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World with caution, thinking it might be a problematic and questionable foray into collaborative exchange. It’s a popular phrase that gets bandied about in the art world. Overall, I was pleasantly wonderstruck and left believing that the works selected by Sophie O’Brien were more akin to time-based pieces with or without traditional performers.

For issue 70 H.R. Hyatt-Johnston reviewed ‘Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World’ at Bundanon. The exhibition is in its final week, closing this weekend. You can read the full review via the link in our bio.

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Images: Installation view of ‘Thinking together: Exchanges with the natural world’, Bundanon, 2025. Photographed by Zan Wimberley

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . Rodney Pople

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . Rodney Pople at Australian Galleries, Sydney 🐾

The exhibition is on view until 7 June

Remember to keep an eye out for Denzidog at an exhibition near you 👀

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Image: Denzidog at Australian Galleries, Sydney
Photographed by Justine Muller

when G.W. Bot captures her environment, she articu

Congratulations to Jack Ball winner of the $100,00

Congratulations to Jack Ball winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Ball’s winning work, a large-scale photographic and sculptural installation titled ‘Heavy Grit’ will be displayed in the Ramsay Art Prize 2025 exhibition which opens on Saturday 31 May.

The Perth-born, Sydney-based artist explores themes of queer intimacy and desire in their winning work. Heavy Grit was developed in response to a collection of scrapbooks held by the Australian Queer Archives, including press clippings from the 1950s to 1970s that referenced trans lives. Ball’s work reveals fragments and glimpses of queer histories, layering archival materials with personal images and soft form sculptures, and creating an interplay between the past and the present.

The Ramsay Art Prize, a $100,000 acquisitive visual arts prize, invites submissions of new work by Australian artists under the age of forty years working in any medium. It is presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation.

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Images: Installation view of Jack Ball, Heavy Grit in the Ramsay Art Prize 2025 exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia. Photographed by Saul Steed

There is no innocent eye or neutral path to repres

There is no innocent eye or neutral path to represent a historical present, but the ‘lite’ touch of Blak Douglas’s scenes present a beguiling entry point into difficult subject matter. The sensuous use of line and bright colour is highly enabling as Blak Douglas consciously draws on the pop culture of Warhol and a pictorial tradition that derives from the work of colonial artists such as convict artist Joseph Lycett and the Wurundjeri leader William Barak.

Eve Sullivan reviews Blak Douglas’ survey exhibition ‘The Halfway Line’ at Penrith Regional Gallery, on now until 20 July. Follow the link in our bio to read the full article.

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Images: Blak Douglas, The Halfway Line, installation view, Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of The Lewers Bequest, 2025. Photography: Silversalt Photography.

A name for a painting may be suggested when observ

A name for a painting may be suggested when observing the swaying movement of seaweed while swimming near her studio, or seeing trees twisting in the wind in the Royal National Park, New South Wales. Bush, ocean and the linearity of the far horizon are constant companions.

In issue 70 Andrew Simpson interviewed Ildiko Kovacs as she prepared for her exhibition ‘Marking Ground’ at Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, from 29 May until 21 June, 2025.

Follow the link in our bio to read the full article.

Images: Ildiko Kovacs, 2025, photographed by Effy Alexakis

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . Stephen Bird

Denzidog’s pick this week is . . . Stephen Bird
‘Up the garden path: works from garden shed’ at Olsen Gallery, Sydney 🐾

The exhibition is on view until 24 May

Remember to keep an eye out for Denzidog at an exhibition near you 👀

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Image: Denzidog at Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Photographed by Justine Muller

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