ESSAY I Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Two years ago, Macleod returned to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be with his mother during the final phase of her life. At Sumner Beach, they revisited the familiar rock formation known as Tuawera or Cave Rock, a hulking, volcanically formed volume opening onto an interior space that changes with the tides. To […]
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Tagged Australian art, Australian painting, contemporary art, Euan Macleod, Joe Frost, King Street Gallery, King Street Gallery on William, painting
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ESSAY I Tiarnie Edwards: Light it Up
Edwards was born on Kaurna Yarta in 1998 and raised on Nauo Country in the small seaside community of Tulka, on the Lower Eyre Peninsula. One of nine siblings, as a child Edwards’ mother would take them to the community house next door where they would sit with senior women, copying flower images from old […]
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Tagged Australian art, ceramics, indigenous art, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sarah Heatherington, sculpture, Tiarnie Edwards
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ESSAY I AI and Animating: ‘The Artist and the End’
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension of drawing and painting. Artificial intelligence has enabled Hellen Rose and I to move from purely documentary making to creating animated films and music videos. During COVID-19 we staged the […]
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REVIEW I Listen rather than declare: La Biennale di Venezia Arte, 2026
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition In Minor Keys, 2026, was realised posthumously by the team she assembled, and by a wider climate of conflict and division. Against this backdrop, its invitation to slow down and […]
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Tagged Australian art, Creative Australia, Installation, Khaled Sabsabi, Michael Dagostino, Michelle Chanique, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale 2026
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REVIEW I Grounding Ambition at Newcastle
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the opening performances (many did not). Creation, 2020, is a beautiful work and was perfectly chosen for this event, celebrating the spirit in art that doesn’t look at what is but […]
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Sanne Koelemij
Sanne Koelemij’s collaged compositions recalibrate conventional dialogues between colour, shape and material.
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