Suggested Reading
Cate Consandine on meeting the complexity of the female gaze
Movement and stillness are driving forces in the video and sculptural works of Cate Consandine. This is particularly true of RINGER, the artist’s new three-channel film work currently premiering at Buxton Contemporary. In conversation with Amelia Wallin, Consandine talks about RINGER, the female gaze as a continual point of exploration, film as sculpture, and the viewer as an active and embodied agent.
Amelia Wallin
Rochelle Haley creates safe spaces through public art
Rochelle Haley is responding to the need for safe spaces in a new public artwork at Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, Lunar Sway, that blends light and colour to create a sense of calm.
Briony Downes
Rone finds beauty in decay
After six months on the long-abandoned third-floor of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, TIME • RONE has found its way to Perth, inside the historical Centenary Galleries—a wing of the Art Gallery of Western Australia that has been closed for over 20 years.
Sally Gearon
Fake Picassos in a ladies toilet: why the saga at MONA is one of the most effective pieces of performance art I’ve seen
In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele has revealed she faked a number of Pablo Picasso paintings hanging in the gallery’s new ladies toilets, established in response to the forced closure of the Ladies Lounge earlier this year.
Joanna Mendelssohn
‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time-warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a gloriously defiant statement of the ways we shape and reshape our identities over time.Cherine Fahd
Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought
Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival.