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Psychological Landscapes
Arthur Boyd’s landscapes not only ruminate on the Australian bush but provide a rich canvas for human emotion to dwell.
Tracey Clement
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Thirteen artists explore the opposite of hard in Soft Core
Now at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, touring exhibition Soft Core explores the fluctuating, mutable qualities of softness through sculpture.
Zara Sigglekow
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Sam Smith on geological time and the impact of island landscapes
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
Rebecca Shanahan
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Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
The use of his own body may be a convenient framework for Christian Thompson, but it also implies an emotional and personal investment that lends his work power and immediacy.
Rebecca Gallo
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Keg de Souza: Common Knowledge and Learning Curves
Keg de Souza’s wildly colourful installation at Griffith University Art Museum, Common Knowledge and Learning Curves, occupies multiple registers.
Rebecca Shanahan
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Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front
Currently showing at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Salient brings together 12 Australian artists who each spent time at the Western Front in 2017.
Tiarney Miekus
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Podcast: Arlo Mountford and being out of time
Working across video, animation, sculpture, installation and drawing, Mountford’s practice is permeated by pop culture allusions and art history references from modernism onwards, underpinned by ironic and slapstick humour.
Tiarney Miekus
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Cassils: Alchemic
Elucidated with a level of technical finesse that Loxley describes as “dazzling,” Cassils’ work is fierce, raw and unflinching.
Anna Dunnill
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Janet Laurence: After Nature
After Nature is filled with works that are aesthetically alluring and spectacular in scale.
Tracey Clement
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Darren Gannon: Memento
Memento, comprising more than a dozen oil paintings, has an elegiac quality. Gannon says the works were mainly created from memory rather than setting up on site for an exercise in “look and put”.
Andrew Stephens
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Melbourne Design Week 2019
Melbourne Design Week features over 170 events including exhibitions, screenings, talks, tours and workshops, spanning throughout NGV and greater Melbourne.
Tiarney Miekus
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Piers Greville wins 2019 Glover Prize
Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize, awarded for landscape paintings of Tasmania. The Melbourne-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with his bold graphic painting, Pedder Prime Cuts.
Art Guide Australia
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