REVIEW | Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs
Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs was commissioned for the Contemporary Projects series at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, where it was first presented in early 2025. Cairns is no stranger to the AGNSW, having won the Archibald Prize in 2017 with a portrait of partner and fellow artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, but Restless […]
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Pink Sensibility
The outside walls of the Wollongong Art Gallery are clad in several panels of different shades of pink, from Pantone 7422C to Pantone 1767C, held up like a mother trying to decide what colour paint to choose for her child’s room. It signals the exhibition inside, Thinking Through Pink, by curator Dr. Sally Gray, which […]
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Mai Nguyễn-Long
Born in Tasmania to a Vietnamese father and an Australian mother, Mai Nguyen-Long grew up in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; as an adult, she has lived in Australia, China, and Vietnam, through critical historical periods such as wartime, the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communism and the growing economy of […]
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The Illawarra Pavilion
When you enter The Illawarra Pavilion at Wollongong Art Gallery, the experience is immediately tranquil. As one of the gallery staff enters a moment after I do, to turn on an uncooperative screen, she comments that she could sit in here for hours because it’s so peaceful. Within the large, square gallery space, additional faux […]
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Birds & Language
Wollongong derives its name for the local Dharawal word “Woolungah,” and the city’s Gallery is an apt venue for the exhibition Birds & Language given its location at the head of the long, narrow coastal strip of Illawarra, which supports some 350 bird species. Unfortunately, timber-felling in the region was an early industry of such […]
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Tagged Birds & Language, Danie Mellor, Deborah Porch, Emily Floyd, Joan Ross, John Wolseley, Louise Weaver, Raquel Ormella, Wollongong Art Gallery
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