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The Spiritual Modernist
Painting in the early 1900s, Clarice Beckett is known as a leading Australian modernist—but a new exhibition locates something more mystical in the artist’s work.
Victoria Perin
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This Brittle Light: Light Source Commissions 2020-2021
In This Brittle Light, at Buxton Contemporary, six Light Source Commissions, which began as online works during the pandemic, transition into the gallery space and underline why art matters, no matter where you see it.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Fiona Hall tackles complex tales
Fiona Hall is a seasoned storyteller. In her installations EXODUST at AGNSW and Who goes here? at Hyde Park Barracks, she use the language of art – both subtle and bold – to step in where words fail.
Tracey Clement
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Stanislava Pinchuk’s Plotted Histories
Mapping data from conflict zones and disaster areas, Stanislava Pinchuk (also known as Miso) creates art that reflects upon trauma, memory and landscape.
Neha Kale
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Ruth Burgess use printmaking to record The Music of the Planets
Ruth Burgess filters the work of a 17th century astronomer and her own youthful career as an experimental composer through a decades-long printmaking practice in her latest solo show, The Music of the Planets at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery.
Briony Downes
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Matthew Harris on camp, class and culture
From cute to uncanny, absurd to naughty, Matthew Harris talks about camp aesthetics, growing up in a country town, and his latest show The Simple Life at Galerie pompom.
Tiarney Miekus
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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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The tiny cellular worlds of Angela Valamanesh
This Icon series exhibition delves into poetic microcosms with a sense of wonder.
Briony Downes
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FEM-aFFINITY #3: Anne Marsh on doing feminism
In the third and final episode of our FEM-aFFINITY podcast, feminist critic and art historian Anne Marsh explains the idea of doing feminism in Australian contemporary art, from the 1970s to now.
Tiarney Miekus
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Exercising the funny muscle
One of Australia’s renowned illustrators, Oslo Davis, gives us a glimpse into the motivations, meaning and humour behind a recent collection of drawings.
Oslo Davis
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Slowness as an act of resistance
Tarrawarra translates as ‘slow-moving water’, and the ‘TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters’ embraces slowness amidst an accelerating 21st century.
Barnaby Smith
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Dark Mofo doesn’t deserve our blood. Australia must invest in First Nations curators and artists.
“We want your blood,” declared Dark Mofo on Saturday. This was not a metaphorical call. This was a literal request of First Nations Peoples by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.
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