Issue 7
| August 4, 2008
Featuring
Judy Millar – Painting for Venice
Also Inside
Jeffery Smart
Julia Deville
Hernan Bas
What
Kill Pixie
Dani Marti
Xing Danwen
Plus Essay, Reviews and News
Essay: Elizabeth Farrelly
Art in the fast lane
Perspective: Steve Lopes Interview with the late James Gleeson
Opinion: Art prizes will ruin you
Perspective: Joe Frost
Conversations from the Field III
Technical: Tools of the trade
Review: Horace Trenerry at AGNSW
Reg Mombassa
Must See Exhibitions
Final Word: Gina Bruce


The first work you encounter in Edge City is a gate, Settlement #8, 2025. Not one to pass through (not anymore), but a threshold nonetheless....
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an...
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s...
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding...
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese...
Senior Pitjantjatjara artist, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, was born in 1952 near Bumbali Creek in the Northern Territory, close to the border with South Australia; daughter...
For those of us who seek out unfamiliar voices and see the potential for diverse cultures to create new meanings and memories in a postcolonial...
Show me the beauty of a body contorted by thrall. Then, show me the thrall. Shame is a vast word....
Kon Gouriotis: How did you come to be working with the Yinhawangka community? Pedram Khosronejad: My journey to working with the Yinhawangka community has...