A Companion to Curation
Suggested Reading
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Nicholas Smith and the sensuality of sculpture
Nicholas Smith’s sensuous and bodily sculptures speak to the classical history of the form in an installation that is now on display at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Laura Couttie
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Belinda Fox masters the art of collaboration
In her latest exhibition at Arthouse Gallery, Belinda Fox invites friends and artists to contribute by reflecting on their sense of home.
Briony Downes
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GAGPROJECTS closes after 32 years
GAGPROJECTS, a mainstay of the Adelaide art scene, has announced that the Kent Town space it has operated out of for 32 years will close at the end of August.
Art Guide Australia
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“Running with the hares while hunting with the hounds”: the life and art of Elizabeth Blair Barber
Throughout her nine decades, Elizabeth Blair Barber used her vibrant social life as the wife of Charles Bunning (of the Bunnings hardware empire) to fuel her art practice and raise the profile of other female creatives by painting well-known figures from the West Australian art scene.
Briony Downes
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Talking painting with Wendy Sharpe
Wendy Sharpe’s expressive paintings incorporate social criticism and otherworldly dreamscapes, blending the real and imagined. With showings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Rockhampton Museum of Art, she reflects on her three-decade practice and that iconic painting of Magda Szubanski.
Sally Gearon
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Nat Penney finds clarity in a winter beach
Trained in timber furniture making and metal fabrication, Adelaide-based artist Nat Penney has developed a professional practice that balances the creation of functional objects with evocative, more abstract forms. Her latest works are now showing at Newmarch Gallery.
Briony Downes
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