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Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
Valerie Strong painted a great many landscapes, to varying degrees of abstraction. Night Garden, c. 1984, is one such painting. In it, you can see Strong’s devotion to form: to line, but also to pattern and tone. From a grey-green wash flicker patches of orange and red, and beneath these the dark lines of tree trunks […]
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VIDEO: Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
On his connection to the culture of the region, and his projects there, Gittoes writes: “During 1965, while in my first year at a new high school, Kingsgrove North, I dared to suggest to the art teacher that we take the option of studying Islamic art. The teacher tried to persuade me against it, saying […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 04/11/21
I took time out this morining to read Hermann Hesse’s book Siddhartha (1922) again after about fifty-five years since the first reading. Then I had to write about it. This sense of a life journey had been a big element of this journey. […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 04/10/21
Waqar was looking very ill when he got back from hospital last night, but assures us the doctors think he is OK and does not have COVID-19 or dengue fever. He does, still, have a temperature of 103 degrees. I will check him when he wakes up. He has been overworking with me – I push […]
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Reuben Paterson
Reuben Paterson was fresh out of art school when he left Auckland for Aviz, France, in 1997, to participate in the esteemed Moët & Chandon Arts Fellowship. Living on the outskirts of Paris in a crumbling chateau, he cycled to the station at any opportunity to journey to the city and visit the museums and […]
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Explore Sydney Contemporary
From the November 11 to 21, 2021, Explore Sydney Contemporary offers access to over eighty galleries, 500 artists, and 1700 works of art. Usually housed in Sydney’s Carriageworks, this year a commitment to public health priorities sees the event accessible from across the country, and indeed the world, via its online platform. Highlights of the fair […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 2/10/21
I don’t accept things the way they are because it is more fun to make them something new. Picasso rearranged form; I rearrange the realities I enter. A few nights ago we went to visit Shah Jehan who is the leading intellectual Professor in Peshawar. I ended up losing it with him . . . […]
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The Art of Protest
Local audiences might find some moments of familiarity at the Newcastle Art Gallery during the showing of The Art of Protest. The program, which includes the work of some thirty-eight artists, offers at least thirty-eight answers on what art and activism have had to do with each other in this country over the past hundred years. One […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 28/09/21
This morning we re-found the place where the 115-year-old Sufi Syed Baba G taught. He died in 2012 and his permanent resting place is in his old home, his bedroom. Two of his young students, brothers, sang the poetry of Rakman Baba. Then in the late afternoon, inspired by the songs, we went to the […]
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Issue 56
EDITOR’S NOTE Isn’t it interesting how the meaning of words can change over time? Very recently the word “naughty” has caught my attention. “Naughty” in the visual arts. Who can possibly be “naughty” in the visual arts? What would naughty look like in this century as opposed to centuries past? Surely only an outsider […]
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Michaye Boulter
What informs your work? I’ve been painting for a long time now. I finished art school in my mid-twenties and more or less lived on Bruny Island until moving to Hobart about seven years ago. Sailing, fishing, family and painting have been my life since then. I paint about being on the water and living […]
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James Drinkwater
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably covered in paint. It’s trickier when someone probes a little further. I’m a painter-sculptor. I’m the son of schoolteachers so I saw people get up and go to work every […]
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Timo Kube
In Dr. Robert Luzar’s essay on Sensibilities we find the claim that “audiences view objects that, more or less, resist definition and medium specificity; these might appear as paintings and sculpture but the experience in viewing the works opens up (the) senses of what they ‘are.’” Indeed, the pieces in this show confound the classic definition-by-medium that […]
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Veronica Cay
conversations with my aunt, Cay’s current show with Anthea Polson Art, is named after the dialogue Cay wishes she could have had with her mother’s sister, about whom Cay knows only precious little information. What Cay does know is that this aunt, Dorothy, led what was by all accounts a vibrant life, deeply unconventional in its […]
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Naomi Hobson
The first thing that is surprising about Naomi Hobson’s Ritual – January First, currently exhibiting at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, is that it is a show of photographs. Hobson, who has long painted intuitive, brightly coloured and somewhat abstracted landscapes (as described by the artist herself for Artist Profile), has become well-known for this work. Collected by […]
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Sarah Goffman
Curatorial staff at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, of the University of Sydney, say that they started discussions for Sarah Goffman’s Applied Arts in 2018, “while we were developing the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Sarah had just undertaken a wonderful kids’ school holiday workshop and we felt that a larger project was needed to do justice to […]
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Kevin Chin
The success of Kevin Chin’s sellout first show with Martin Browne Contemporary, in 2019, was widely attributed to his of-the-moment impulse for political painting. His work, which has long examined the entanglement of place, power, and personhood, clearly did respond to the cues of the minute: to climate change, to diaspora and the treatment of […]
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Rudi Williams
unfixed: σκιά σκιά σκιά ombra ombra ombra shadow shadow shadow brings together a meticulously assembled body of work by Naarm/Melbourne based photographer Rudi Williams. With unflinching gaze Williams interrogates constructed worlds, notions of containment and captivation, and the passage of time. Each work is an artefact; a compendium of place, memory and process. unfixed presents these […]
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Brendan Kelly: Wallumatta White Kid
Splashes of thick, dark paint – at once gestural and geometrical – obfuscate much of the imagery across Kelly’s most recent oeuvre. A vision of the Sydney Opera House is disrupted by one, as are a series of fences, situated in the long, slightly abstracted field of empty-ish space so characteristic of Australian landscape in […]
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Book Review: NGV Triennial
Big. Bigger. Biggest. I remember learning by rote these comparative adjectives back in primary school in Glasgow in the 1960s. Everything about the NGV Triennial fits into the third category, not least the five kilogram catalogue that arrives in a box and unfolds into five volumes. Try putting that on a library shelf without it […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 27/09/21
The great 115-year-old Sufi Mystic Sayed Baba Gee who was featured in Miscreants of Taliwood, 2009, died in 2012. His father was a famous Sufi poet and the date of the birth of his son was recorded in history. I promised that whenever I was back I would go and teach his students new and […]
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