Tricky Walsh
Tricky Walsh appears on my laptop screen, their voice slightly distorted as we converse over distance through a shaky network from one regional part of Tasmania to another: it’s a Zoom conversation. This is how we get in touch. It’s a bit like science fiction, but it’s also a bit daggy – the future is […]
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William Kentridge
Cartography, topography, even choreography: so much of what William Kentridge’s work does is graph. Thinking about his work like this, with an emphasis on the kinds of knowledge and the kind of story made possible through different modes of writing, also calls attention to the hand that does all this sense-making. Printed matter, books, and the process […]
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Tagged Annandale Gallerires, Australian Galleries, Australian Galleries Melbourne, Melbourne, William Kentridge
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Bill Henson
Bill Henson is preparing for an upcoming show. He says that “new pictures grow out of old pictures. With these recently completed works there has been a twenty-two year gestation period.” Particular modes of figuration, themes, and textures have remained interesting to the artist over his career: young people in the fragile dawn of their […]
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James Drinkwater
How do you describe your artistic practice to strangers? When people ask, I always tell them that I’m a house painter – because I’m inevitably covered in paint. It’s trickier when someone probes a little further. I’m a painter-sculptor. I’m the son of schoolteachers so I saw people get up and go to work every […]
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ROBERT ROONEY @ TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE
THE FIVE PAINTINGS in Robert Rooney’s latest exhibition are based on images by cartoonists who signed themselves Picq, Vire and GOD. These cartoons were sourced from copies of Le Rire, a French satirical magazine that Robert Rooney found in a second-hand bookshop in 1999. Le Rire (Laughter) was founded by Felix Juven in October 1894, in a […]
