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Vale Edmund Capon
Edmund Capon, who has died at the age of 78, served for 33 years as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), an institution with which his name remains indelibly linked.
Steve Dow
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Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz: Activity Centres
Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz describe the link between their art practices as a feeling of “abundance within sparseness.”
Briony Downes
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Michael Vale: Time Traveller
The Melbourne-based painter’s new exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Time Traveller, features characters and elements that are peculiar yet oddly familiar.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Open House
The Lyon family throws open the doors to its newly minted Housemuseum Galleries with the aptly titled exhibition, Enter.
Andrew Stephens
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Age of Empire
Andrew Nicholls walked the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, partied in Venice, wore britches and white makeup in the piazze and hiked up aching-to-erupt volcanoes. Hyperkulturemia collects the artist’s forays into the romance and revelry of the tour.
Sheridan Hart
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Cassils: Alchemic
Elucidated with a level of technical finesse that Loxley describes as “dazzling,” Cassils’ work is fierce, raw and unflinching.
Anna Dunnill
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Janet Laurence: After Nature
After Nature is filled with works that are aesthetically alluring and spectacular in scale.
Tracey Clement
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Darren Gannon: Memento
Memento, comprising more than a dozen oil paintings, has an elegiac quality. Gannon says the works were mainly created from memory rather than setting up on site for an exercise in “look and put”.
Andrew Stephens
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Melbourne Design Week 2019
Melbourne Design Week features over 170 events including exhibitions, screenings, talks, tours and workshops, spanning throughout NGV and greater Melbourne.
Tiarney Miekus
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Piers Greville wins 2019 Glover Prize
Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize, awarded for landscape paintings of Tasmania. The Melbourne-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with his bold graphic painting, Pedder Prime Cuts.
Art Guide Australia
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Shifting Light: Lydia Wegner
The set-up of Lydia Wegner’s staged photographs is unassuming. Cast from readymade materials the results are otherworldly.
Zara Sigglekow
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Dirty Paper
When staff took five local artists through the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection to see what might grab them, the idea was to eventually have these emerging and mid-career artists show new drawing works in the gallery.
Andrew Stephens
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