Louise Martin-Chew

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Louise Martin-Chew is a freelance writer and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland (Creative Writing) where she is working on artist biography. Her most recent book is Linde Ivimey, published by UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2012.

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Barbara Kruger: THINK OF ME THINKING OF YOU

For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.

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Max Athans and the proxy breath

The central life-giving gesture of the breath is at the core of Max Athans’ first institutional solo exhibition. Their series of sculptures, collectively titled Breathform, take air into latex ‘lungs’ which create a whistle in the exhale, a deep breathy sound that echoes eerily through the galleries.

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In the shadows: Gao Ping’s dialogue with the deeper heart

For Chinese painter Gao Ping, the interplay between shadow and light is as much a symbol of our relationship with history as it is a visual technique. The artist’s latest exhibition Between the Shadow and the Soul, curated by Dr Luise Guest, is now showing at Vermilion Art.

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A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.

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Darrell Sibosado scales new heights

In an interview with Louise Martin-Chew, Darrell Sibosado discusses his striking installation Ilgarr (Blood), currently on show as part of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, his major commission at the 24th Biennale of Sydney, and Illume, an upcoming collaboration with the renowned Bangarra Theatre.

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Elizabeth Willing provides food for thought

Elizabeth Willing intersects her artistic practice with a love of food in Kitchen Studio, an ambitious project showing at Metro Arts as part of Brisbane Festival.

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The life, land and light of Lloyd Rees

In Lands of Light, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery focuses on Lloyd Rees’s (1895-1988) late paintings inspired by the Tasmanian landscape, while also contextualising them within his earlier work.

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“It’s dance, it’s song”: Wurrandan Marawili’s debut solo exhibition

Yolŋu musician and artist Wurrandan Marawili is embracing Gunybi Ganambarr’s ‘Found’ movement in a series of etched aluminium artworks, now showing at Outstation Gallery.

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Danish Quapoor explores the contradictions of grief

In the most significant exhibition of his career to date at Pinnacles Gallery, Danish Quapoor explores the contradictory emotions of grief while navigating complex shifts in identity and belonging.

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Dhopiya Yuŋupingu’s bark paintings tell inherited stories

Now showing at Sullivan+Strumpf Melbourne, the second solo exhibition from Dhopiya Yuŋupingu draws on the shared histories between the Yolŋu and the Macassans.

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Inside Christopher Bassi’s beautiful Brisbane studio

“It’s a relationship I’m speaking about, a relationship with environment, place, my grandmother and family,” says Christopher Bassi. With inspiration vested in a matrilineal connection to Queensland’s far north, the sea, and the tropics, Bassi practises from a light-filled studio in Brisbane’s West End.

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Posters on the pulse

Since their radical rise in the 1970s, posters have been used by artists and activists for feminist, political, environmental and cultural issues. As an exhibition at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery attests, today may be no different.

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Louise Martin-Chew

Writer