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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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John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new
Building on traditional knowledge and aesthetics, John Mawurndjul has established a thoroughly contemporary practice.
Anna Dunnill
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Pat Hoffie talks about place and The Partnershipping Project
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
Briony Downes
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Hearing the sound of dragons’ breath in Real Music
Samson Young composes for instruments that can never exist, breathing life into musical impossibilities.
Andrew Stephens
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Ben Quilty: 2020 vision
In the first in a series of Art Guide Australia articles in which we turn the spotlight on a single artwork, Tracey Clement takes a close look at Ben Quilty’s recent painting, 2020, and talks to the artist about how he sees the world. A range of paintings from the same series can now be viewed in Quilty’s solo show, Still life after the virus, at Jan Murphy Gallery.
Tracey Clement
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Vale Geoff Dyer
A tribute to artist Geoff Dyer, a charismatic and much-loved figure in the Tasmanian cultural scene, who passed away on 8 October 2020, aged 73.
Briony Downes
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Laresa Kosloff’s dark humour and Radical Acts
For the second feature in Art Guide Australia’s series which focuses on a single artwork, Tracey Clement examines another piece which addresses the climate crisis. She burst into tears watching Laresa Kosloff’s online video, Radical Acts, and spoke to the artist about telling stories with dark humour.
Tracey Clement
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Kirsten Coelho on the narrative potential of porcelain and light
Coelho creates porcelain objects that marry expert technique to timeless evocations of functional forms.
Briony Downes
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Tiyan Baker and Guy Louden on the cold poetics of the pandemic
Panic Buy, a collaborative exhibition by Tiyan Baker and Guy Louden, is a unique innovative deconstruction of a pandemic-induced phenomenon.
Barnaby Smith
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