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Beholden to Images
Hoda Afshar trains her lens into dark, forbidden corners of the globe, undermining the structural power of the medium.
Andy Butler
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Jahnne Pasco-White
Jahnne Pasco-White’s paintings have always had a sculptural element to them; she experiments with the layers and folds of loose canvases, which she plasters with wax, resin and found materials.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Women win 2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize
This year women have won all three awards in the National Photographic Portrait Prize including the top prize, the Highly Commended award and the Art Handlers’ Award.
Art Guide Australia
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To Future Women
On the ground in Washington DC, Australian artist Georgia Saxelby is rallying for participation in both art and feminist discourse.
Briony Downes
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Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
In general, the photos surrounding the process of filmmaking are not thought of as art objects or as portraiture. Yet Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, presented by the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, displays these photographs precisely as portraiture.
Tiarney Miekus
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Artists can’t help swearing in Just Not Australian
Nothing is what it used to be in the group show Just Not Australian. This is probably just as well, since the cultural artefacts that form much of the show’s raw material are not always pretty.
Rebecca Shanahan
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Reformers
Love and Desire at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) will bring 100 Pre-Raphaelite paintings, drawings and decorative objects to Canberra.
Sheridan Hart
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Seeing voices in regional Australia
Rather than simply relegating the voice to mere sound, in Seeing voices the voice comes to us in many utterances and instances. It is linguistic, cultural, social, gendered, human and post-human. In this regional touring exhibition the voice is explored as a visual, political and material entity.
Tiarney Miekus
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Danjoo – Interwoven
At the heart of Danjoo – Interwoven is pride in Country, community and culture.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Echo Chambers: Art and Endless Reflections
Are some exhibitions being designed for the social media experience?
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Mairi Ward: Moving Mountains
Mairi Ward creates patterns evocative of the way nature regenerates: tiny microcosms teeming just below the surface, ready to spring into action.
Briony Downes
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Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley
Desert River Sea plunges visitors into the complexity and aspirations of the Kimberley.
Sheridan Hart
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