Professional Art Therapist Part 2: Curators*
Frankly, living artists are a bore. I prefer dead artists.
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Frankly, living artists are a bore. I prefer dead artists.
It All Started With a Stale Sandwich is a documentary about the 50-year history of Kaldor Public Art Projects, made by London-born, Sydney-based film director Samantha Lang.
Perhaps, after seeing Papier Mâché for Beginners, people in Perth will see our ‘Cactus’ in a different light.
Exploring the semiotics and aesthetics of a retail workplace, Mixed Emotions consists of 2,157 labels that adhere to commercially sold tins of paint, indicating the colour mix, ingredients and date and time of mixing.
It’s a big jump from Australia to an island in the Baltic Sea. During 2017 and 2018 the London-based Australian artist Sam Smith visited the Swedish island of Gotland as part of an artist exchange organised by Western Australia’s International Art Space.
With Convergence II, Monika Lukowska and Melanie McKee endorse a kind of art practice in which studio endeavour and everyday life are conflated.
Local and international artists create fine-drawn moments of memory and existence at TarraWarra International.
Monet: Impression Sunrise is a chance to reflect on the vagaries of history.
D’Souza will be showing a body of new work in an exhibition titled with three emojis: a pizza slice, praying hands and a heart, as in Eat, Pray, Love.
Joanna Braithwaite has won the third annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
50 years on, Penelope Seidler recalls the first ever Kaldor Public Art Project: Christo and Jeane-Claude’s groundbreaking Wrapped Coast.
In Ian Tully’s solo exhibition, a farmer prepares for the inevitable move to Mars.
The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.
Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.
In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.
rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.
In a new exhibition at Australian Galleries, Kyoko Imazu’s intricate papercuts show worlds in miniature—Some of works are only 15 centimetres tall, yet their detail is meticulous.
About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.
