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Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.
Zara Sigglekow
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Adelaide//International finds artists raising the question of who holds the power of narration in a series of four solo exhibitions.
What happens after technologies emerge, after the devices have been built, and we’ve altered the conditions we live in? This question connects the diverse works in After Technology.
Hoda Afshar trains her lens into dark, forbidden corners of the globe, undermining the structural power of the medium.
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.
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.
On the ground in Washington DC, Australian artist Georgia Saxelby is rallying for participation in both art and feminist discourse.
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.
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.
Love and Desire at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) will bring 100 Pre-Raphaelite paintings, drawings and decorative objects to Canberra.
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.
At the heart of Danjoo – Interwoven is pride in Country, community and culture.
Are some exhibitions being designed for the social media experience?
Shirley Purdie’s newest paintings at Olsen Gallery are ancestral stories of Country and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming), but also sites and moments that resonate with Purdie, from her birthplace of Mabel Downs Station to her family history.
“It starts with Elizabethan and Tudor period portraits and goes right through to contemporary times.” The National Portrait Gallery in London has loaned 80 works to our National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, capturing portraiture through the ages.
Opening today, QUEER is a landmark exhibition bringing together over 400 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection that explores queer in political, aesthetic and intimate ways. Four of the exhibition’s curators unpack the stories—from innuendos to pointed subversions to witticisms—behind four key artworks.
Since the 1980s acclaimed American artist Kiki Smith has looked at mortality, sexuality, and nature. Showing magnificent tapestries in the current Biennale of Sydney, Smith has previously shown in five Venice Biennales, and in 2006 was one of the ‘TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World.’ In our interview Smith talks about the process of making art and being patient in our chaotic world.
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