Interview
Interview: Louise Weaver on nature, feminism and crocheting animal forms
With a practice spanning three decades, Louise Weaver is well-known for her meticulously crochet-encased animal forms.
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Grayson Perry talks about Them & Us
Grayson Perry takes to the stage in a one-person show, Them & Us, covering everything from politics and fashion to art and childhood toys. Briony Downes spoke to Perry ahead of his upcoming appearances in Sydney and Melbourne.
Briony Downes
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NGA curator Jaklyn Babington on #askacurator and watching Francesco melt
Urs Fischer’s four-metre red wax sculpture, Francesco, 2017, is designed to be lit and slowly melted like a candle. Recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), the sculpture’s decomposition is being documented on social media—and attracting lively discussion.
Briony Downes
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Pat Hoffie talks about place and The Partnershipping Project
Curated by Dr Pat Hoffie and Rosemary Miller, The Partnershipping Project brings together 20 installations, a database of interviews with artists, commissioned essays, and community workshops.
Briony Downes
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Jumaadi on doing the work to translate poetry and displacement into art
Jumaadi’s exhibition My love is an Island Far Away at Mosman Art Gallery has been years in the making.
Jane O'Sullivan
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Interview: Amanda Marburg
Amanda Marburg is “a painter, not a sculptor,” she maintains. Her works might have a starting point in film or fairy tale, or riff on a moment in art history, but it’s the modest ‘sketch’ in plasticine that lends a distinctive look to her work and has her reiterating her vocational calling.
Varia Karipoff
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Kent Morris on looking through a First Nations lens
In the exhibitions Barkindji Blue Sky and Unvanished, Melbourne based Barkindji man Kent Morris uses digital photography to illustrate how Indigenous culture adapts to change.
Briony Downes
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Interview: Olga Bennett
Olga Bennett is a Moscow-born, Melbourne-based artist whose practice encompasses an array of mediums that are united by the artist’s keen enquiry into the idea of knowledge.
Varia Karipoff
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Tricky Walsh explores paths not taken in Flatland
Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.
Barnaby Smith
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Lisa Fehily on making female artists household names
Embracing the current push led by museums, galleries and public collections to highlight the work of women artists, Lisa Fehily has opened Finkelstein Gallery, an all-female commercial art space in Melbourne.
Briony Downes
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Richard Bell on gate-crashing the Venice Biennale
In his Venice work, We Don’t Really Need This / EMBASSY, Bell has wrapped a replica of the Australian Pavilion in chains (an institutional critique through an architectural intervention), sited it on a barge, and sailed it throughout the Venetian lagoon.
Louise Martin-Chew
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Susan Cohn on the personal and political power of jewellery
With a practice spanning four decades, Melbourne-based jeweller Susan Cohn makes both highly wearable and deeply political work.