PROFILE: Mason Kimber | The Skin of the Painting
At his Leichhardt studio, Mason Kimber shows me a cache of photographs taken of a Perth nightclub, owned by Kimber’s father, in the 1980s and 1990s. The club had many names and many looks—including a Bat Cave and a Shark Bar—all designed from his father’s outsized imagination. Kimber remembers being taken to the club by […]
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Sarah Contos: Eye Lash Horizon
Eye Lash Horizon is the first solo exhibition by Sarah Contos in a major public institution. Occupying the full ground floor of UNSW Galleries, Contos has spent a year preparing four rooms of installations, each named for an anatomical or metaphysical theme—Brain; Womb; Belly; Soul—and each with its own distinct character, materials, and influences from […]
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Renee So
Renee So’s faces don’t often have all their features. Some have noses, but her early busts and knitted paintings often have mouths grown over by facial (or head) hair. Many wear masks, covering almost every detail which would give a hint of their character. “But they always have eyes,” she says. Like these characters, So’s […]
James Tylor
Just as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed – a Katha stick, Karku spade, and Yuku dish – made for his son to play with at the beach. Images show their elegant and purposeful forms sitting atop the pale […]
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Gordon Hookey
All elections bring forth a tumultuous change in the Australian society, as the old order is thrown out like confetti from a departing ship of fools and a new course is set for a journey charting turbulent and dangerous waters of the minds, hearts, and spirit of all of us in our Country, in the […]
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Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices
Perhaps I should not have been surprised by the number of pets present at UNSW Galleries for the opening of Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices. Associations between textiles and the domestic sphere – and attendant notions of the feminine, the soft, the sweetly corporeal, and the “low” – are key points of departure […]
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Daniel Jenatsch
The Close World (2020) was built from conversations with GPT-3, and for the project, you fed the model with foundational texts on the philosophy of language. Which texts did you use for this, and why did you make the selection that you did? What do these texts teach us, and how do they speak to and with […]
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Tribute: Debra Porch
In Issue 47, Ian Were writes a tribute piece about the contagious incandescence and vitality of his late partner, artist Debra Porch (1954–2017).
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People Like Us
Showcasing the innovative and experimental technologies used by artists today, ‘People Like Us’ engages in a dialogue with confronting issues of the 21st century.
