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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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Maggie Hensel-Brown on lace, labour and female rage
The intricate art of lace-making might bring to mind your grandmother’s tea-table, but it’s long been used to tell grand tales of war and passion, gods and kings.
Anna Dunnill
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The quilts of Jess Johnson and Cynthia Johnson
Known for her immersive VR works, Jess Johnson has collaborated with her mother Cynthia to turn her obsessive drawings into quilts.
Tracey Clement
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Painting decision fatigue
Amber Boardman’s large-scale paintings look at how both decision fatigue and the internet are shaping our lives and interactions.
Tiarney Miekus
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Flow of Language, Flow of Life
Why Joi T. Arcand wants you to learn the Cree language.
Steve Dow
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David Keeling paints landscapes he’s familiar with in Stranger
Stranger, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), is a survey show which offers an insight into the way David Keeling sees Tasmania.
Briony Downes
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Private life, public face—how a portrait is made
At the National Portrait Gallery, Before hand: the private life of the portrait delves into the back-stories of how subject and artist come together to make a work.
Andrew Stephens
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