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Vis-Ability
The term ‘visual art’ tends to preclude further ways of experiencing work but in Vis-Ability, careful research and curation have expanded the scope of ‘seeing’ art.
Sheridan Hart
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Review
Keg de Souza: Common Knowledge and Learning Curves
Keg de Souza’s wildly colourful installation at Griffith University Art Museum, Common Knowledge and Learning Curves, occupies multiple registers.
Rebecca Shanahan
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Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front
Currently showing at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Salient brings together 12 Australian artists who each spent time at the Western Front in 2017.
Tiarney Miekus
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Interview
Elizabeth Cross talks about the symbolism and majesty of trees
Melbourne-based curator and art historian Elizabeth Cross is less known for her own work as an artist, but this identification is shifting with the opening of her exhibition, Arborescent, at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery.
Steve Dow
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Storygraph
Through the medium of comic art, StoryGraph offers a portrait of various aspects of Australian life, from policy and governance to small communities and services.
Barnaby Smith
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Tamara Dean wins 2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Congratulations to Tamara Dean who has won the $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP) for 2019. Dean’s colour underwater photograph, Endangered, was selected from a pool of 30 finalists.
Art Guide Australia
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Ensemble Piece
When Angelica Mesiti debuted her acclaimed 2012 video work Citizen Band at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, then-director Juliana Engberg told her quietly at the opening, “I’m going to take you to Venice.” It took a few years, but Engberg was true to her word.
Anna Dunnill
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Lara Merrett: Flip side
Colour is an ongoing preoccupation for Lara Merrett, and the paintings for Flip side are steeped in it.
Tracey Clement
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Anita Cummins wins Schenberg Art Fellowship at Hatched
Anita Cummins has won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for recent art school graduates.
Art Guide Australia
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The Essential Duchamp
“Duchamp is one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century,” says Nicholas Chambers, coordinating curator of The Essential Duchamp.
Tiarney Miekus
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Elyas Alavi: Daydreamer Wolf
Hazara artist Elyas Alavi’s practice is motivated by poetry, the masks a survivor wears and the plight of those left behind.
Tracey Clement
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James Powditch assembles memories in Codakhrome
James Powditch’s new exhibition Codakhrome explores the fragility of memory.
Jane O'Sullivan
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