ESSAY | Sriwhana Spong: A State of Unknowing
It was back in 2011 that Pip Wallis, senior curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), remembers first seeing the work of Balinese New Zealand filmmaker, sculptor, and performance artist Sriwhana Spong in a gallery in Melbourne. At that time Spong was an emerging artist and Wallis was so struck by Spong’s art […]
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JULIAN HOOPER @ GALLERY 9
THIS EXHIBITION of paintings and works on paper by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julian Hooper, presents figures made up of incongruous elements like fish tails and fruit, reminiscent of Arcimboldo. Titled Golden Solvent, this is Julian Hooper’s second solo show at Gallery 9. Curator Victoria Lynn writes: “Hooper has compared them with figures from fashion […]
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