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John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new
Building on traditional knowledge and aesthetics, John Mawurndjul has established a thoroughly contemporary practice.
Anna Dunnill
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Truth and Beauty
The truth is often a bitter pill. As Australian history is re-examined, Judy Watson brings her artistic sensitivity and intimate knowledge to it.
Tracey Clement
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Looking through old boxes with William Wegman
Wegman’s portraits are more than just uncanny curios. He treats each of his subjects with the kind of respect that is typically afforded to a human sitter, and the kind of candour that is only afforded to man’s best friend.
Tai Mitsuji
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Inherited Histories
Family and national history are tied up for Phuong Ngo, who has amassed an archive tracing Vietnam’s tumultuous past.
Andy Butler
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Interview
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio talks about Frida Kahlo’s photos
Both Frida and Diego were productive and intensive artists, so they collected photographs as iconography to paint from.
Steve Dow
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In These Hands: Mara nyangangka
In These Hands expands into a broad survey, marking out the diverse practices of some 28 living Ernabella painters, ceramicists, punu (timber) workers and weavers working with tjanpi desert grass.
Sheridan Hart
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Podcast
Podcast: Gunybi Ganambarr on creating, building and etching
Since embarking on a creative path only a mere 15 years ago, Yolŋu artist Gunybi Ganambarr has been continuously praised for his weaving of Indigenous forms and traditional stories with a contemporary sensibility.
Tiarney Miekus
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Robyn Sweaney: Backwards looking forwards
“In this new body of work my paintings focus on houses that were influenced by the trend of modernism that crept into the suburbs, mainly in the 1960s,” says Sweaney.
Barnaby Smith
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James Geurts works between landscape and perception
The work of James Geurts traverses a range of territories: fault lines in Bendigo, archaeological sites in Melbourne, Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory, tectonic plates colliding in Italy and two different points on the meridian.
Tiarney Miekus
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Review
Extra
In her solo show Extra, Adrienne Doig stitched herself into reproductions of the Bayeux Tapestry. This cheeky act of historical revision highlights the fact that in all propaganda, as in all histories, the officially sanctioned version is never the whole story.
Tracey Clement
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Clare Milledge: Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock
Milledge’s visual language slips between abstract painting and witchy mysticism; the connections between work and title often oblique. Is gazing at a painting and trying to divine its meaning really so different from reading entrails or casting bones?
Anna Dunnill
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Killing Time
Despite the health risks associated with smoking, the act has played a shifting emblematic role across cultural history.
Zara Sigglekow
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