REVIEW | Michael Vale: Synchronicity and the theatre of the absurd
Michael Vale views colonialism as the elephant in the room when it comes to Australian history and Australian art. He observes that through a strange coincidence, or synchronicity, at the same time as the rise of the Gothic novel in Europe, the horrors imagined by the fiction writers were actually taking place in Australia through […]
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National Works on Paper
In an introductory essay to the National Works on Paper exhibition for 2022, Jenna Lee writes that “paper is part of our everyday lives, and it’s that almost mundane, everyday quality that I find the most special. When artists work with paper as their subject, material, and medium there is a transformation that happens. We take an […]
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A Collection of Stranger Things
Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) presents ‘A Collection of Stranger Things’.
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