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Neil Frazer: force of nature
Neil Frazer removes all human references from his seascapes; their imagery, form and execution evokes the extreme power of nature.
Louise Martin-Chew
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Neil Frazer removes all human references from his seascapes; their imagery, form and execution evokes the extreme power of nature.
Artist and soccer fan Khaled Sabsabi captures transcendence in unexpected places.
How do you think about the future at a time when the future feels so uncertain? In this third edition of Faraway, so close, artists Cyrus Tang and Lucy McRae give their thoughts and feelings on where we are now, and where we’re headed next.
Create NSW, a state government agency, has agreed to give Carriageworks Ltd a 10-year lease at the former railway yards site at Eveleigh in inner Sydney.
At a time when the world is in collective mourning, Dancing with the Dead at The Lock-Up confronts grief and celebrates its part in the human experience.
Through mysticism, power and feminism, Willoh S. Weiland shows us what performance can do.
Born in 1934, Elisabeth Cummings has been painting professionally for more than 60 years.
“We must fight, and we must resist, and we will win again as we have done before.”
As the closure of cities pushes art online, have we really learnt anything new?
Eugenia Lim’s major exhibition The Ambassador is currently touring Australia, and brings together works featuring her invented persona, also called the ambassador, who she inhabits across multiple videos, performances and sites.
Through mythology and folklore, Julia Robinson’s sculptures reflect and question our history and present.
From alleviating anxiety to getting fit at home, our current moment has been a time of seeking wisdom. The advice from artists at Cement Fondu? Don’t let yourself go.
Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
“It starts with Elizabethan and Tudor period portraits and goes right through to contemporary times.” The National Portrait Gallery in London has loaned 80 works to our National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, capturing portraiture through the ages.
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