Sara Maher and the expression of light
Sara Maher was the first artist I met in Tasmania. I encountered Maher gently arranging tiny drawings and prints in a tree for the 2004 Mountain Festival Sculpture Trail. It was a generous work, and despite its public location, deeply personal. The illustrations stemmed from an intuitive “drawing and writing process” that Maher and her […]
ELAAA v1.1 & Micheila Petersfield: Personae
Embraced in the Loving Arms of an Algorithm – v1.1 (ELAAA v1.1), is a stark, but intellectually rich and timely exhibition that claims to be curated by an algorithm. It’s the creation of Jon Smeathers, a composer, sound installation artist and recipient of this year’s Contemporary Art Tasmania curatorial mentorship. The four participating artists are […]
James Newitt
James Newitt’s exhibition ‘Delay’ examines the politico-personal valency of escape and withdrawal.

