Anna Dunnill

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Clare Milledge: Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock

Milledge’s visual language slips between abstract painting and witchy mysticism; the connections between work and title often oblique. Is gazing at a painting and trying to divine its meaning really so different from reading entrails or casting bones?

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

Dark Matter

Gothic Beauty at Bendigo Art Gallery shows the enduring lure of the elaborate yet sombre aesthetic, particularly fitting for the Victorian goldrush city.

By Anna Dunnill

Interview

Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft

For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.

By Anna Dunnill

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Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

By Anna Dunnill

Feature

A Stitch in Time

By Anna Dunnill

Preview, Review

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

In Hito Steyerl’s immersive video installation Factory of the Sun, the gallery’s dark walls, floor and ceiling are illuminated by a grid, lines glowing a cold blue.

By Anna Dunnill

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John Stezaker: Lost World

Not unlike the vintage photographs he works with, John Stezaker was unearthed after decades of obscurity.

By Anna Dunnill

Artplus

Ilona Nelson, This Wild Song

This Wild Song is a long-term project by artist and curator Ilona Nelson. Galvanised by recent statistics around gender inequality in the arts (for example the 2015 Countess Report), Nelson has made it her mission to champion and celebrate Australian female artists through photographic portraiture.

By Anna Dunnill

Preview, Review

Sonia Leber and David Chesworth: Architecture Makes Us

Territory, geography, architecture, time. In their mid-career survey exhibition, Architecture Makes Us, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth wrangle with these structures, formed by humans, but which cannot fail to shape us in turn.

By Anna Dunnill

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A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness

By Anna Dunnill

Preview, Review

Brodie Ellis explodes The Crystal World

Brodie Ellis’s video work, A Crystal World, 2016, cuts together footage of Australian mining explosions, sourced online, into a slow motion sequence.

By Anna Dunnill