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Exploring safe spaces in art
A new sculpture exhibition considers how our experience of space is psychological, cultural and surreal.
Barnaby Smith
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The perfectly timed magic of Carlene Thompson
Thompson, who got her start at the Aboriginal owned and operated art centre Ernabella Arts in the APY Lands, is an artist who effortlessly works across multiple mediums including painting, printmaking, wood carving, ceramics and fibre-based works.
Tracey Clement
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Making art as an antidote to panic in Symbiosis
Symbiosis, the inaugural Bankstown Biennale, has appropriately been assembled by two curators working in tandem, Vandana Ram and Heidi Axelsen, who have brought together the work of 20 Australian artists and writers.
Tracey Clement
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MPRG: FIFTY
Opening up 50 years of contemporary art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Tracey Clement
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Do you remember Barbara Cleveland?
Barbara Cleveland is a mythic persona reclaimed from 1970s Australian art history. A new retrospective explores her ‘forgotten’ life and practice—which is to say, the forgotten practices of non-male creatives at large.
Tiarney Miekus
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Radical Business
Artist and ‘feral trader’ Kate Rich asks: how can artists shake up business as usual?
Kate Rich
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Create your own music using Sarah crowEST’s visual scores
Hosted by Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Sarah crowEST’s newest piece Sound Seen is currently online.
Tiarney Miekus
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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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