Jon Butt is a photographer in the most contemporary sense of the word. For Fieldcast, Butt’s solo exhibition at Bus Projects, the artist has produced work through means of destroying a scanner, a process that has allowed him to examine what he says are “the inherent artefacts of this destruction”.
Their new collaboration, multi-channel video installation The Summation of Force, is a filmic love song to cricket, shot largely in their own backyard.
Questions surrounding how we portray ourselves, and how we judge others, sit at the heart of Rona Green’s bold, yet strikingly simple, prints.
Neon, glass, mirror, metal and acrylic are placed in precarious relationships in Brendan Van Hek’s upcoming exhibition, the continual condition.
Grandmothers and granddaughters, poetic perceptions, mango pickles, scenes from the everyday and the persistence of memories: these are the themes currently circulating across four exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
For a contemporary art magazine to publish 300 issues over 30 years is a rather impressive output. For Art Monthly Australasia, these numbers have now become a reality.
Curated by Chelsea Hopper, the exhibition I can see Russia from here brings together a diverse group of Australian artists who have been influenced by Russian art or engaged with what Hopper terms “the Russian imaginary,” that is, the complex layers of cultural signifiers and values that construct an understanding of Russia, either from within the society or from without.
In his new exhibition deKonstruKt, Raftopoulos’s desire is to “debase this belief system” that surrounds us – our historical and contemporary narratives.
The defining theme in eX de Medici’s paintings is a consistent interrogation of power.
The biggest challenge for artistic director Leigh Carmichael, mastermind behind Hobart’s hugely successful winter festival Dark Mofo is to keep it mysterious and energetic.
Traditionally, photographs reveal the character of places like Perth through iconography or colour (Bankwest Tower, sunsets). “This is the opposite of that,” says curator Chelsea Hopper.
And so, it is with sweet reluctance that we farewell Stills Gallery.
