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Presented by Sheffield Haworth and 3:33 Art Projects: SOLD OUT // International Women’s Day 2022: Connecting Women in Business and Art
Join us for a special evening featuring some of Australia’s most exciting young women artists in discussion with Gaibrielle Germans, Director 3:33 Art Projects and Anne Ryan, Curator Art Gallery of New South Wales. Clara Adolphs: Three-time Archibald finalist, Clara is inspired by old photographs and the stories they represent in gestures of thick paint and […]
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Julie Rrap
In front of Rrap’s Secret Strategies, Ideal Spaces series, 1987, viewers with an archival impulse might find themselves looking for wall text inside, or at the very least around, the image. In this photographic series, Rrap moves – usually naked to some degree, and often with markings on her body – in front of drawn reproductions of work from […]
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Tagged ARC ONE, ARC ONGE Gallery, feminist art, Julie Rrap, painting, performance, photography
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Kyra Mancktelow: Gubba Up
In a broadcast given for the 2021 churchie emerging art prize, where she was a Special Commendation winner, Mancktelow reflected on the absence on First Nations histories in her own schooling in this country. Here, she stated that “I’m putting this art in the world for people to view, and see, and have an understanding […]
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Tagged Aboriginal art, Art, ARTIST PROFILE, Kyra Mancktelow, N.Smith Gallery
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From Walyalup with Love: Sculpture at Bathers 2022
Sculpture at Bathers is back for the fifth iteration of the biennial beachside exhibition from 19 February to 7 March 2022. A wholly Western Australian conglomeration of contemporary sculpture, the site-responsive exhibition tells stories that are steeped in this moment in time, in a singular corner of the world. Set amidst the historic West […]
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Tagged Kidogo Arthouse, Louella Hayes, sculpture, Sculpture at Bathers
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Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative: Deadly/Solid/Staunch
The show is billed as a celebration of the First Nations LGBTQIA+ community – surely a really diverse community in and of itself. Are there any particular stories/histories that the show is especially interested in? As well as new artworks by Boomalli artists, the exhibition will be a part-retrospective of Boomalli exhibitions and a showcasing […]
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Christopher Langton
My recent exhibition, Colony, at Tolarno Galleries in August 2019, was a large-scale immersive installation that was conceived after a personal experience of a viral infection. However, throughout the pandemic it’s metastasised into something more universal. In the installation, two figures in white protective suits are surrounded by a legion of brightly coloured globular forms […]
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Patrick Hall
Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis. In 2001 Hall became the first non-American artist to feature on the cover of the SOFA exhibition catalogue. The reason Hall (born in 1962) was a hit at this fair […]
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Emma Beer
There it is, striated beneath the blocks of pink – irregular, in a way which feels permissive – a few glimpses of green ground. This ground, swung behind the pink, is elsewhere left visible: drawn across the canvas of laboured learning, 2021, as a thin veil which does more revealing than hiding, shifting with the […]
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Tagged ANU, ANU School of Art & Design, Drill Hall Gallery, Emma Beer, painting
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Atong Atem
Melbourne-based, South Sudan-born artist Atong Atem’s vibrant palette and beautifully stylised imagery draws the viewer into a narrative that belies its facade
We Came Whirling: Khaled Sabsabi’s A Hope
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. – Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī Founded by the followers of the poet and mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, the Mevlevi, or Mawlawiyya, is a Sufi order originating in Konya in south-central Turkey. They are […]
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Tagged Campbelltown Arts Centre, Khaled Sabsabi, Stephanie Berlangieri
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Nick Santoro
You draw from a wide range of imagery and ideas. What are the major sources of inspiration for your works? The process for gathering content to use in my paintings is a combination of information snacking, image hoarding and autobiographical content. What I’m exploring changes rapidly, governed by anything from music, art or ideas that […]
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Tagged Melbourne Art Fair, Nick Santoro, painting, The Egg & Dart, the egg and dart
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Isaac Julien in Australia
Isaac Julien confessed to Laura Barnett in a Guardian article in 2013 that he was a frustrated painter. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that his film and video works are so painterly, that his installations inhabit gallery spaces, and his picture-making within each frame is so considered and visually poetic. Like Francisco de Goya and Gustave Courbet […]
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Tagged Art Gallery of New South Wales, Isaac Julien, John Curtin Gallery, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Samstag, Samstag Museum, Samstag Museum of Art
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Found and Gathered: Lorraine Connelly-Northey and Rosalie Gascoigne
I use the term “survey” loosely, however, as the exhibition is staged far from chronology. Instead, it centres on a series of sets: the diametric themes, subjects, and visual devices employed by both artists in their biographically discrete careers. Yet, while these sets suggest that, methodologically, a parallel can be drawn, the curators are quick to […]
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Michael Vale
In PegLeg’s Ghost, 2021, three figures appear with bundles of cloth perching improbably on their heads. Neck-ache and gravitational dynamics aside, the nestling of lively objects into these happenstance headpieces places the picture firmly within the realm of the absurd. From two seated figures emerge small, vertical smoking structures (chimneys?), while the garb of the […]
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Megan Cope
It’s week three of another lockdown and for once, I am looking forward to my next Zoom of the day – my interview with Noonuccal and Ngugi artist Megan Cope. From my apartment located in one of the exiled suburbs of Western Sydney, Megan takes me to her childhood, isolated in regional Tasmania, where her […]
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Tagged Hannah Donnelly, Megan Cope, Ngununggula
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Adam Lee: World Sick Hermit
In World Sick Hermit, Adam Lee presents a suite of new paintings that reframe concepts of interpersonal and intergenerational connectedness whilst interrogating the hierarchy of outer and inner worlds. The body of work draws its title from a phrase coined by Lee’s daughter, who once announced a feeling of homesickness for the wider world. In […]
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Jamming with Strangers
My Le Thi and Azo Bell’s Gukoongboom, 2021, occupies the expanse of the room it sits within at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. One of the first works that audiences encounter stepping into the free exhibition Jamming with Strangers, this work can be taken as emblematic of many of the show’s themes and aims. The work itself can be […]
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경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA
Given national survey shows are often at the forefront of the art as cultural diplomacy model – showcasing, surveying, and value-signalling – this show embraces a transcultural exchange, while attempting to unsettle the idea of promoting cogent national narratives. Curated for the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and South Korea, […]
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Tagged Artspace, Seoul Museum of Art, Sydney, Un/learning Australia
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William Robinson: Nocturne
In Artist Profile 47, William Robinson told Louise Martin-Chew that his Creation landscapes “started in 1988 and contained both darkness and light. In 1991 our eldest daughter died and in 1992 our youngest daughter died. I became immersed in the landscape in that stage and stayed through seven Creation paintings into the 2000s, one for […]
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Tagged Queensland University of Technology, QUT, William Robinson, William Robinson Gallery
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Letters from Ukraine: 20/03/22
We have arrived in Krakow and are already feeling the good vibes of the Polish people. On the plane from Frankfurt to Krakow an older lady, Helana, sat next to me. The coffee is not free on Lufthansa and she did not have a credit card – so, I naturally bought her the coffee with […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 15/03/22
Into the Dragon’s Lair, 2022, is highly autobiographical, with me taking Hellen under one arm as we go towards the Red Russian Dragon. Hellen’s hair is black but in the painting it is yellow; she is my Venus, and the background is in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag. Ukraine produces more sunflower oil than any […]
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Letters from Ukraine: 25/02/22
Over the last four days, leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, I have been doing this drawing sourced from Rubens’s two major works Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars (also known as Peace and War), 1629-30, and Consequences of War (also known as Horrors of War), 1637-38. 400 years on, Rubens, the great classical scholar and humanist pacifist, would be […]
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Phillip George and Margarita Georgiadis: Gaps in the Migrant Consciousness
Alexakis and Janiszewski have made an interesting choice; two senior and respected Australian artists – of Greek and Egyptian heritage, born in Sydney, but with extensive local and international art experiences — paired together for the very first time in an exhibition of recent works and in a building for Democracy. For this exhibition they […]
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National Art School Graduate Shows 2021
At the close of 2021, the National Association for the Visual Arts’ I Lost My Gig survey reported that some 32,000 lost work opportunities had represented a collective income loss in the arts sector of $94 million AUD, due to our ongoing public health crisis, since July 2021 alone. According to NAVA’s research, as many as four […]
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