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Dioramas and dolls
Elaine Campaner’s photographs of multilayered dioramas reward intense viewing.
Tracey Clement
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Katie West’s seasonal dyeing and gentle making
There is a concern for decolonisation, the environment and putting forward Indigenous perspectives, and championing a closer and more caring relationship with nature.
Zara Sigglekow
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Stacie Piper appointed as Yalingwa First Peoples Curator at TarraWarra Museum of Art
Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Stacie Piper has been appointed as First Peoples Curator at the TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the Yalingwa initiative.
Art Guide Australia
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Bill Henson’s past and present collide in The light fades but the gods remain
The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Eveline Kotai: Invisible Threads
Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Retracing a Tense Past
In two new projects, Julie Gough continues her excavation of Tasmania’s First Nation history and the impact of colonisation.
Tiarney Miekus
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Catherine Truman: no surface holds
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
Tiarney Miekus
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She Wants to Go to Her Bedroom but She Can’t Be Bothered
A jeweller friend remarked to me that if you come across work in a jewellery show and can’t immediately recognise who made it, it is probably by Lisa Walker.
Anna Dunnill
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The 36th annual Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
The winner of the 2019 Telstra Art Award is Djambawa Marawili AM with his work Journey to America.
Tiarney Miekus
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Prue Venables on having itchy fingers and creative hands
For the new instalment of their Living Treasures series, the Australian Design Centre invited ceramicist Prue Venables to exhibit a new collection of her enigmatic, metal-augmented porcelain objects.
Sheridan Hart
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Susan Norrie wins Don Macfarlane Prize 2019
Susan Norrie has been awarded $50,000 as recipient of the third annual Don Macfarlane Prize. The award is given to a senior Australian artist to spend as they please; no particular outcomes are required.
Art Guide Australia
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Tony Oursler: On/Off
“Look at the screen, I’m on my way to make heaven,” gargles the voice of a bodiless cubist head talking on a loop as you enter Fox Jensen Gallery.
John Buckley
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