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Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.

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By Rebecca Gallo
Black and White

David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience

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By Briony Downes
Alex Gawronski, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley win 2018 NAVA Fellowships

Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

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By Steve Dow
Weapons for the Soldier

Showing at Hazlehurst Arts Centre, Weapons for the Soldier brings together 41 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on warfare and the inherent drive to protect country, family and culture.

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By Tiarney Miekus
Truth and Beauty

The truth is often a bitter pill. As Australian history is re-examined, Judy Watson brings her artistic sensitivity and intimate knowledge to it.

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By Tracey Clement
Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft

For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.

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By Anna Dunnill

Christopher Pease: Minang Boodjar

A Minang/Noongar man from Western Australia, Christopher Pease creates multi-layered paintings combining traditional Indigenous stories with 19th-century colonial narratives, powerfully subverting images like those produced by Lieutenant Robert Dale and his contemporaries.

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By Briony Downes

Decade: Celebrating 10 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery

Hugo Michell opened his eponymous gallery in Adelaide at a hazardous time – it was late in 2008, and the GFC was in full effect.

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By Nadiah Abdulrahim

Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.

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By Anna Dunnill

Tony Tuckson

Watters Gallery, which opened in 1964, is staging its final exhibition, a selection of figurative works from the estate of Tony Tuckson, a painter known primarily as a gifted abstractionist.

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By Tracey Clement

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Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage

Peter Raissis, curator of European prints and drawings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales where 65 of their paintings will be on view in Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage, insists that the show is not going to feel like walking through a textbook.

By Tracey Clement

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Kosmos: Eva Rothschild’s constructed landscape

One of the first things you will notice when entering Eva Rothschild’s exhibition Kosmos at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is the monumental scale of the works. Stark, formalist forms in black metal and concrete dominate your view.

By Laura Couttie

Antoinette Barbouttis wins Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2018

NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.

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By Art Guide Australia

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Sam Jinks

“Trying to convey an idea with an emotional situation is one way of drawing the person a little bit further into it, but it’s such a sensitive, delicate thing to do. You have to tread really lightly with little movements of hands and things like that in getting things to connect.” – Sam Jinks

By Varia Karipoff

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National Gallery of Victoria – NGV International

Julian Opie

Top 5 Exhibitions

John Curtin Gallery

Confluence

Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer

Australian Centre for Photography (ACP)

Geography of Space, Archaeology of Time

Izabela Pluta, Utako Shindo

Despard Gallery

A World Of My Own

Micheila Petersfield

Beaver Galleries

A point of difference

Dai Li, Kelly Austin, Kenji Uranishi

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Five on Five: Kate Beynon on Remedios Varo’s The Creation of the Birds

In this first series of Five on Five we’re asking five painters to speak about a painting that has influenced, inspired or resonated with them. In this episode Kate Beynon reflects on The Creation of the Birds (1958) by Spanish artist Remedios Varo.

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By Tiarney Miekus

Ronnie van Hout: No one is watching you

New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Ronnie van Hout has made a name for himself with works that are perplexing, outlandish and disruptive.

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By Varia Karipoff

Connection and resistance

The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.

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By Maddee Clark

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Facing the law

Lawyer and art historian Adam Bushby discusses the challenges an artist faces when painting judges and lawyers; a niche in the portraiture genre subject to multiple constraints.

By Adam Bushby

Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song

This Wild Song is a long-term project by artist and curator Ilona Nelson. Galvanised by recent statistics around gender inequality in the arts (for example the 2015 Countess Report), Nelson has made it her mission to champion and celebrate Australian female artists through photographic portraiture.

By Anna Dunnill

Can design decolonise cities?

Ahead of NAIDOC week, Indigenous writer and urban planner Timmah Ball reflects on the rise of First Nations inflected design elements in our cities. She questions whether or not they are actually having the desired decolonial effect and, after a trip to New Zealand, compares practices in Naarm (Melbourne) and Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).

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Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Preview

By Rebecca Gallo

Black and White

Feature

By Briony Downes

Alex Gawronski, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley win 2018 NAVA Fellowships

News

By Steve Dow

Weapons for the Soldier

Preview

By Tiarney Miekus

Truth and Beauty

Feature

By Tracey Clement

Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft

Interview

By Anna Dunnill

Christopher Pease: Minang Boodjar

Preview

By Briony Downes

Decade: Celebrating 10 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery

Preview

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

Preview

By Anna Dunnill

Tony Tuckson

Preview

By Tracey Clement

Preview

Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage

By Tracey Clement

Preview

Kosmos: Eva Rothschild’s constructed landscape

By Laura Couttie

Antoinette Barbouttis wins Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2018

News

By Art Guide Australia

Studio

Sam Jinks

By Varia Karipoff

Top 5

National Gallery of Victoria – NGV International

Julian Opie

Top 5 Exhibitions

John Curtin Gallery

Confluence

Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer

Australian Centre for Photography (ACP)

Geography of Space, Archaeology of Time

Izabela Pluta, Utako Shindo

Despard Gallery

A World Of My Own

Micheila Petersfield

Beaver Galleries

A point of difference

Dai Li, Kelly Austin, Kenji Uranishi

Recent Articles

Five on Five: Kate Beynon on Remedios Varo’s The Creation of the Birds

Feature

By Tiarney Miekus

Ronnie van Hout: No one is watching you

Feature

By Varia Karipoff

Connection and resistance

Feature

By Maddee Clark

Art+

Facing the law

By Adam Bushby

Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song

By Anna Dunnill

Can design decolonise cities?

By Timmah Ball

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