Neha Kale

Neha Kale is a writer, journalist and critic who has been writing about art and culture for the last ten years. Her work features in publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, The Saturday Paper, Art Review Asia and The Guardian and she is the former editor of VAULT.

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The women raised by wolves

From crones to witches to grandmothers, the feminine monstrosity offered by fairy tales is an antidote to our current, unsatisfying forms of female transgression—as a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art reveals.

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The Journey Down: The painted car travelling throughout Western Australia

A 1975 Mazda ute is embarking on a 3,200-kilometre trek from Kununurra, in the Kimberley, to Perth’s WA Museum Boola Bardip. Painted by Warmun artists, and transformed into a sound sculpture, what’s the story behind this car?

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Can art resist the carceral state?

Resisting the cold bureaucratisation of their lives, a group of women are questioning their interactions with the prison-industrial complex by reclaiming their own humanity—as showing at the Institute of Modern Art.

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Okkoota is exploding colonial structures from within

“I think the artist’s role can be to create these different relationships between people who don’t normally feel they can talk to each other,” says Eugenia Lim, an artist in Okkoota. Meaning gathering, assembly or alliance, Okkoota finds a sense of community in disparate histories at Melbourne’s Arts House.

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Nathan Beard on the puzzlement of personhood

With works exploring his Thai-Australian heritage, Nathan Beard’s latest solo show at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art continues his nuanced understanding of identity as fluid and permeable.

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Hannah Brontë on creating a world to live in

“What is the dream in terms of what I can create?” asks Hannah Brontë. An artist and DJ, Brontë is using art to imagine a freer society with the spirit of true collectivity, with a new solo show at UTS Gallery.

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Daniel Boyd’s studio are where fictions are cracked open and remade

“If you don’t fit within a canon—you obviously have to question it, expand it.” With a major solo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, we stepped inside Daniel Boyd’s sprawling Marrickville warehouse, where Boyd first begins challenging his viewers’ perception of the world.

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The Indigenous collectives central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney

Central to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is a focus on collectives coming together. We look at the stories and art behind three Indigenous collectives in rīvus: Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre and Casino Wake Up Time from Australia, and New Zealand’s Mata Aho Collective.

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Language, curating and identity with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza and Warraba Weatherall

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza and Warraba Weatherall talk about the process behind This language that is every stone at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, as well as curating identity in the 21st century, and the relationship between art and language.

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Rebecca Belmore makes art for turbulent times

Based in Toronto, Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore is showing her first Australian solo exhibition, creating acts of Indigenous resistance through art, language and bodies.