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Fashion, art and politics meet head on in Hi Vis
In the group exhibition Hi Vis, fashion is used to arrest attention and focus it onto complex political ideas.
Jane O'Sullivan
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In the group exhibition Hi Vis, fashion is used to arrest attention and focus it onto complex political ideas.
Misfit features the work of 11 contemporary queer artists from Australia and abroad who use some form of “expanded collage” in their practice.
It is the deftly-crafted dialogue between the works of 15 artists in the exhibition that reveal the connections between the two wildly different, but similarly slippery, concepts of rococo and colonialism.
Sounds of Pacing places early-career artists in lively conversation with each other.
Kate Baker is known for works which combine glass and photographic processes to poetic effect.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt brings Thailand’s Wat Pho temple to Australia through her multi-sensory installation Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
Yhonnie Scarce has been awarded the second Yalingwa Fellowship, an initiative designed to foster career development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual artists living and working in Victoria.
Even Agatha Gothe-Snape struggles to define her art.
As an abstract painter with an enduring interest in modernism, John Nixon has always enjoyed exploring and absorbing material from allied fields.
“Without science we would not understand the body, without the body fashion would not become alive and without art, how can we express the bodies we have?”
Creating a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia, John Prince Siddon’s works dance on the edges.
Corbett’s art making began 20 years ago on the grounds of his former car-wrecking business.
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.
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.
“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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