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The Museum of Water is a mosaic of the universe
UK artist Amy Sharrocks describes the Museum of Water as “A mosaic of the universe that cherishes voices and careful listening.”
By Tiarney Miekus
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Interview
Ian Howard makes art not war
Like many artists of his generation, Ian Howard was politicised during the Vietnam War. But to call his art anti-war is too simplistic, as Steve Dow discovers speaking to Howard while the artist prepares his latest exhibition.
By Steve Dow
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Feature
Standard-bearer
Multidisciplinary South-Korean artist and Venice Biennale alumna, Kimsooja, brings a pressing memo to Perth Festival.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Preview, Review
Tom Phillips: Suburban Castaway
The works confront you in the foyer of the gallery; large, gestural paintings of a central figure, a fleshy man whose red mouth full of teeth is mirrored by the red toothy snarl of the black dog.
By Zoe Freney
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Grisaille: Shades of Grey from the Collection
When Tobias Spitzer from Newcastle Art Gallery came across a large painting by Warren Knight with the “mysterious title” Do-to kal 1969 its greyish tones became the starting point for the curatorial project Grisaille: Shades of Grey from the Collection.
By Varia Karipoff
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Franck Gohier
Darwin-based Franck Gohier’s retrospective at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, A Thousand Miles from Everywhere, showcases the past two decades of his practice.
By Anna Dunnill
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Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art
In Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art you will find: a lightbox representing the entire universe; a dark room of floating figures; and the slowed-down breaking of a single wave, mapping the step-by-step shift as the water eventually crashes.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Isaac Julien celebrates queer black men of the jazz age
In Isaac Julien’s film Looking for Langston we begin at the end: a funeral. Well-dressed men and women sob, tears running down their cheeks.
By Rebecca Gallo
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News
Jenny Watson awarded the 2018 Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship
Jenny Watson has received the latest Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship. She will spend two months at the American Academy in Rome.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Abstracting Aphorisms: Jon Campbell
Jon Campbell’s practice is characterised by an avid interest in Australian vernacular, local and national iconography, popular cultural, colloquial sayings, graphic design tropes, vivid colours and negative space.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Opinion
Regional Art Galleries: Giant Sheep, Contemporary Art
Not every country town or city thought to build a permanent local gallery, or if they had, many didn’t survive to the present day. To travel around to experience Australia’s wealth of regional galleries is to be presented with the architecture of make-do.
By Andrew Frost
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