Podcast
The Long Run #8: Vivienne Binns on asking what art really is
A pioneer in feminist and community driven art, Vivienne Binns talks about 60 years of interrogating what art truly is, and how art is a human activity.
Tiarney Miekus
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Interview
Interview: Frances Barrett on connecting through art and her new show Meatus
After being postponed for almost two years, Frances Barrett’s Meatus is now opening at ACCA. Our 2020 interview is essential reading ahead of the exhibition and performances.
Briony Downes
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Feature
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art shows how our local differences demand curiosity and care
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has earned its rightful place in Australia’s cultural calendar for the ambitious scope of its artistic programming, highlighting the diversity and range of artistic practices across the Asia Pacific region. This 10th triennial, ATP10, features 150 artists and collectives from 30 countries.
The Conversation
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Opinion
When Should You Work For Free?
When the arts sector relies upon free labour from artists and arts workers, how do we have conversations about real job equity and sustainability? Sophia Cai unpacks this question.
Sophia Cai
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Feature
Artists explore how the earth shapes creativity
From climate change to geography to cattle farming, Gathering Geographies at Sydney’s Darren Knight Gallery speculates on how the earth, via weather, time and resources, shapes human movement and creativity.
Briony Downes
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Feature
Naminapu Maymuru-White is giving us a river of stars
The bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) in Naminapu Maymuru-White’s solo at Sullivan+Strumpf poignantly speak not only of Country, but an astral parallel: the Milky Way.
Tristen Harwood
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Painter Jahnne Pasco-White is in a tangle of materials
Creating layers of artificial and natural dyes, Jahnne Pasco-White’s quietly mesmerising canvases speak to an entwined relationship between painting, bodies, materials and the world, with work currently showing at Town Hall Gallery and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Briony Downes
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Ken Knight’s Frontier
For over four decades Ken Knight has painted en plein air, capturing landscapes in his impressionist style.
Tiarney Miekus
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Hoda Afshar creates portraits of our time
From her portrait of journalist and Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani to photographs of whistleblowers, Hoda Afshar gives us 21st-century images that speak to trauma, justice and humanity.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Jenna Lee’s exquisite art deconstructs colonial objects
Black, white and red dominate the art of Jenna Lee, an artist who is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and Karrajarri Saltwater woman with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. The artist reflects on five of her recent artworks, with exhibitions at Melbourne Art Fair, Pride Gallery and Koorie Heritage Trust.
Tiarney Miekus
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Australian art has lost two of its greats. Vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh
In the past ten days Australia has lost two important artworld figures. Both were senior artists working in Adelaide but with a reach extending far beyond the city or the nation.
The Conversation
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21st century consumerism is unpacked by Anna Hoyle
In Your choc-mint pelvik floor is so boring at Linden New Art, Anna Hoyle’s witty, colourful gouache paintings skewer advertising, self-help and consumer trends and culture.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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