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Jasmine Targett: Super Ecology
Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.
By Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Preview, Review
William Kentridge: master of both quality and quantity
Can you have too much of a good thing? William Kentridge seems determined to find out in his survey show, William Kentridge: that which we do not remember, at Art Gallery of New South Wales.
By Tracey Clement
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Opinion
Some Questions for Artists
“What do you say when you’re not a painter? Say you’re a video artist – how do you explain that to your accountant? Your mechanic?”
By Andrew Frost
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Review
Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun
In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.
By Anna Dunnill
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Feature
Podcast: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington on being a conduit
In this latest Art Guide podcast, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, a Yamatji Nyoongar man from Western Australia with Dutch and Scottish migrant history, talks about his curatorial and consultancy roles. But he’s careful to point out that he sees himself less as a voice of authority and more as a conduit.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Interview
Sera Waters unpicks the long stitches of Australian history
Sera Waters talked with Sheridan Coleman about dated craft fads, the silences of Australian history, and her current residency and upcoming shows from a squashy velveteen divan, amid skeins of pastel yarn.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Kosmos: Eva Rothschild’s constructed landscape
One of the first things you will notice when entering Eva Rothschild’s exhibition Kosmos at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is the monumental scale of the works. Stark, formalist forms in black metal and concrete dominate your view.
By Laura Couttie
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News
Akil Ahamat wins 2018 John Fries Award
Congratulations to Akil Ahamat who has won the $10,000 non-acquisitive John Fries Award, administered by the Copyright Agency.
By Art Guide Australia
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Feature
Where East
Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis present the East in its everyday hues rather than as the fabled other.
By Tracey Clement
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Alex Seton explores our cultural baggage in Cargo
What does your life weigh? This is the unspoken question that resides at the heart of Alex Seton’s exhibition Cargo at Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney.
By Tai Mitsuji
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News
National Portrait Gallery of Australia appoints Karen Quinlan as new director
Karen Quinlan has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
By Art Guide Australia
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News
Vanessa Kelly wins 2018 John Leslie Art Prize
“This is a uniquely Australian landscape, in that it is marked by time. In regional areas buildings don’t get suddenly erased, as they do in the city, they just slowly weather away. This painting records an instance of that.”
By Art Guide Australia
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