REVIEW: Lynda Draper’s Garden of Earthly Delights
A stone’s throw from the Illawarra escarpment at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the introduction to Draper’s ecosphere is a gathering of rainbow forms which, as an entrée, signal a period of transition and presents the most heterogenous arrangement in Glimmer. Cultural references are pluralist and synthesised across archetypal forms suggestive of Haniwa (Japanese unglazed clay mortuary […]
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National Identity in The National
The National 4: Australian Art Now features exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia). The National’s five curators: Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley, Freja Carmichael, Jane Devery, Beatrice Gralton and Emily Rolfe offer a selection of works in line with […]
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The National 4: Australian Art Now
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA): The National exhibition at the MCA is a collection of intimate responses by fourteen artists to family, life, current events, and home. Two of these are: Hoda Afshar’s confrontational selection of photographs, Aura; a timeline of three years, 2020-2023, consisting of the social and political turmoil that has dominated […]
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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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David Hawkes
Campbelltown Arts Centre presents three decades of paintings from the colourful oeuvre of Australian artist David Hawkes.
