Rebecca Shanahan

writer/Artist

Rebecca Shanahan is a Sydney-based artist working in photography, video, performance, textiles, and installation. In 2018 she completed a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Rebecca has exhibited in more than 20 group and solo exhibitions and is also a lecturer at UNSW Art & Design.

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Gabrielle de Vietri discusses links between art and fossil fuels

A Centre for Everything is a socially-engaged creative project operating at the intersection of art, learning, food, play, and activism.

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Curiouser and Curiouser

Curiouser and Curiouser takes that classic of absurdity and perceptual play, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as its starting point.

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Nick Cave: Until

At first glance, Nick Cave’s Until is a charm offensive: a crowd-pleasing, selfie-backdrop, colour-and-movement spectacle complete with accompanying gift shop, but there are tougher meanings here too.

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Cuttings–Elizabeth Gower

In Cuttings–Elizabeth Gower, visitors to Geelong Gallery can see a 21-metre-long artwork hand-collaged from paper scraps just two centimetres square.

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Bush Women: 25 Years On

In the late 20th century six Indigenous women whose personal histories spanned traditional and global ways of life began to make new and exciting paintings.

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Ginormous Play

It’s no secret that museum and gallery visits positively benefit kids; teamLab’s Future Park takes it to the next level.

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Wendy Murray on political posters and unleashing collective power in Fresh Blood

Along with Stuart Bailey, Wendy Murray has co-curated Fresh Blood: Redback Graphix and its Aftermath at the Casula Powerhouse.

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Angela Valamanesh

Exquisite, faintly ominous ceramic objects merging plants and insects are at the centre of Angela Valamanesh’s exhibition Everybody’s Everything: Insect/Orchid.

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Janet Laurence

For decades, Janet Laurence has probed human relationships with ecology by merging science-based observation and investigation with a visual poetry of alchemy, transparency, beauty and loss.

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Booming Culture: The Boomalli Ten celebrate 30 years

Showcasing the work of its founding members, the exhibition is packed with works from the 1980s up to the present day. The Boomalli Ten feels like a celebration not just of those 10 artists but more broadly of the Indigenous Australian art now flourishing in the post-colonial present.

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Pasts and presences in Not Niwe Not Nieuw Not Neu

Bronze trees on a pallet, neon targets, stuffed birds, and contemporary daguerreotypes all appear in Not Niwe Not Nieuw Not Neu at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

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Laughing out loud with Mikala Dwyer

Sometimes you get to laugh out loud with delight in an art gallery. A Shape of Thought, the solo show by Mikala Dwyer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is so packed with wit, invention and energy that at times I caught myself emitting little happy gasps.

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Rebecca Shanahan

writer/Artist