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We are the dew drops
Poetic and poignant, Lindy Lee’s work reflects the enormity and fragility of the cosmos.
Sophia Cai
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Artists present uncanny Real Worlds in the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial
A sense of the uncanny echoes through many of the works in Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020.
Anna Dunnill
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Lucky or left-behind? Portraits from rural China
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
Andy Butler
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Connection and resistance
The evolving collective this mob, founded by Kate ten Buuren, creates a nurturing and deadly space for Blak artists.
Maddee Clark
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A Call to Rise: the politics of bread
From riots and rations to the story of Aboriginal baking, this group exhibition explores how history has been shaped by the humble loaf.
Barnaby Smith
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Lara Chamas on family, history, politics and prayer
Whether filming her parents, making casts of precious family objects, or screen printing her mother’s hummus recipe onto a stack of Bunnings rugs, Lara Chamas’s work resonates with humour, warmth and tenderness.
Anna Dunnill
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Opinion
Every crisis provides an opportunity: the silver linings of 2020
“When my editor suggested that I write a year in review column she cautioned me to take it easy on the bad news. We don’t need to be reminded once more that 2020 has been catastrophic. Make it upbeat. I’ll do my best.”
Andrew Frost
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The Rhythm of the Handcrafted
Once relegated to ‘merely craft’, textiles are suddenly everywhere. As interest grows, artists are taking the medium to vastly different places—from ancestral lineages, to rituals of grief, to addressing online misogyny.
Anna Dunnill
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How artists turned to the postal service
While galleries and museums raced to go digital during our national lockdowns, many artists embraced a slower form of connection: the mail.
Nanette Orly
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Ryan Presley tells us the story behind his images
Rich with symbolism and colour, the prints and paintings of Ryan Presley give a sharp and deeply compassionate history of Indigenous experiences with governance and power in Australia. He tells us the potent stories behind five of his artworks.
Sheridan Hart
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Artspace and AGNSW both get makeovers in 2021
Both Artspace, in the Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, and the 19th and 20th-century AGNSW buildings will be undergoing renovation in 2021.
Tracey Clement
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Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) closes temporarily
After 46 years, the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) will cease operating in its current form on 16 December, after which its Darlinghurst gallery and headquarters will be closed to the public.
Art Guide Australia
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