A Throw Of The Dice
While known for his large arrangements of canvasboards, famed contemporary artist Imants Tillers also writes. About art and artists. About making contemporary art in Australia. About his relationship to his Latvian heritage. On one occasion, he writes of his repeated attempts to paint a portrait of Murray Bail (first published in Heat, 1998). “This work […]
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Tagged Imants Tillers, Janet Laurence, John Davis, John Young, Julie Rrap, Robert Owen
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Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. The Biennial is part of the Adelaide Festival, and since its inception in 1990 has exhibited nearly 500 artists to over one million visitors. It is a major exhibition […]
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Julie Rrap
In front of Rrap’s Secret Strategies, Ideal Spaces series, 1987, viewers with an archival impulse might find themselves looking for wall text inside, or at the very least around, the image. In this photographic series, Rrap moves – usually naked to some degree, and often with markings on her body – in front of drawn reproductions of work from […]
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Tagged ARC ONE, ARC ONGE Gallery, feminist art, Julie Rrap, painting, performance, photography
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