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 […]
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Todd Jenkins
The texture of the oil paint in Todd Jenkins’s Lunar Current, 2022, is at once delicate and densely packed onto the canvas. There is a sense that the painting is calling out be touched, as well as to be explored by the eye. Though the painting’s title suggests the moon-led movements of the oceans around Tasmania, the […]
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Patrick Hall
Steven Joyce of Despard Gallery has shown Patrick Hall’s work at the renowned Chicago art fair, Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art (SOFA), on a regular basis. In 2001 Hall became the first non-American artist to feature on the cover of the SOFA exhibition catalogue. The reason Hall (born in 1962) was a hit at this fair […]
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Mathew Simms
It’s a studio visit like no other. I pull over on a dirt road just outside Westbury in Northern Tasmania and do a U-turn before reading the instructions again: ‘After the willow trees, then across the creek.’ On my second attempt to find Simms’ camp – his home and studio – I spot the artist […]
