Daniel Weber
By his own account, Weber grew up “in the midst of the plains of Minnesota, in a small town of about 30,000 people . . . and the only escape was the library.” As he tells me, “I moved to a larger city when I was sixteen, and became aware of all of these narratives […]
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Tagged Daniel Weber, painting, Sydney, Wellington Gallery
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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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Tagged Bill Henson, Melbourne, photography, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA
Given national survey shows are often at the forefront of the art as cultural diplomacy model – showcasing, surveying, and value-signalling – this show embraces a transcultural exchange, while attempting to unsettle the idea of promoting cogent national narratives. Curated for the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and South Korea, […]
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Tagged Artspace, Seoul Museum of Art, Sydney, Un/learning Australia
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National Art School Graduate Shows 2021
At the close of 2021, the National Association for the Visual Arts’ I Lost My Gig survey reported that some 32,000 lost work opportunities had represented a collective income loss in the arts sector of $94 million AUD, due to our ongoing public health crisis, since July 2021 alone. According to NAVA’s research, as many as four […]
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Tagged NAS, National Art School, National Art School Graduate Show, Postgrad Show, Sydney
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Yvonne Boag
In Moruya Sunset 1, 2021, Yvonne Boag undertakes the painterly equivalent of holding the positive ends of two (or perhaps more – perhaps innumerable) magnets together. The logic of the painting is one of competing horizontal energies: charged shapes and colours are held in proximity, approaching each other impossibly, thrillingly. Sparks fly between a mercurial sweep of […]
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Tagged painting, Stella Downer, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, Yvonne Boag
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Firstdraft Gallery
Firstdraft – one of Sydney’s many successful artist-run, not for profit, gallery spaces – is currently divided into four gallery spaces. On exhibition are Barbara Knezevic, Kirra Jamison, Giselle Stanborough and Jai McKenzie. Each artist is using their space independently of one another and the result is four wonderful exhibitions of varying mediums. In gallery […]
DAVID SERISIER @ LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY
David Serisier’s latest body of abstract paintings further explores his interest into the perception of colour and light; issues of materiality and immateriality; and his passion for the geometry of the square. The exhibition is made up of five large paintings of varying monochromatic colours, four smaller monochromatic paints, and a series of prints made […]
KAOS IN KING STREET
LUKE CAVALAN (aka Lc Beats) is a Sydney young aerosol artist, beat-boxer, claymation filmmaker and graduate of AFTRS (Australian Film, Television and Radio School). Thanks to sponsorship from 567 King graffiti art supply store in Newtown and Australian aerosol paint company Ironlak, he’s produced his second claymation, single frame stop-animation feature film KAOS IN KING […]
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Tagged film, Graffiti, Luke Cavalan, Newtown, street art, Sydney
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