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What do the birds say?
For ceramicist Glenn Barkley, the lagoon is “a swampy place where ideas come from”.
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Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs
Parrtjima festival to light up Alice Springs in September 2020.
Tracey Clement
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Life cycles of the artist studio
In The Long Kiss Goodbye, six artists transform old artworks, materials, ideas and images.
Anna Dunnill
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Two artists and the Parisian avant-garde
Australian artists Bessie Davidson (1879–1965) and Sally Smart are connected not only by relation: they are also both strong feminist presences in male-dominated, avant-garde traditions.
Michaela Bear
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The emoji-like sun looking down on Earth
Agnieszka Polska shows how photography has a complicated relationship to ‘truth’.
Zara Sigglekow
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What’s disguised in the name ‘coolie’?
Sancintya Mohini Simpson unpacks a family history of indentured labour.
Barnaby Smith
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The exquisite unknowns of collaborative design
Industrial design meets straw marquetry via the age-old game of ‘exquisite corpse’.
Andrew Stephens
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Matthew Sleeth: A Drone Opera
“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth
Steve Dow
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Cross cultural exchange becomes sinuous leather furniture in Partu (skin)
Part of the Melbourne Design Week (MDW) 2020 program, Partu is Jansen and Nargoodah’s latest collaboration.
Briony Downes
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Navigating home, work, art, life
Outside Painting explores the messy boundaries between life and art.
Anna Dunnill
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Fiona Hall tackles overconsumption with potent rubbish in Afraid Cascade
For Fiona Hall, the things we throw away aren’t empty of meaning.
Neha Kale
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The darker side of searching for paradise
Fraser Anderson conjures a retreat for our inner gremlins.