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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Nick Modrzewski uses art to find poetry in the law

Nick Modrzewski combines his art practice with a similarly intense career in the law. His new paintings at COMA gallery explore the way human bodies fit (or don’t) within the institutional structures that guide our societies.

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Politics and puff paint with Alice Lang

Alice Lang’s art packs a feminist punch. Flowah Powah is her most significant solo exhibition in Australia to date, showing at QUT Art Museum.

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Lisa Sammut uses glass to explore the cosmos

“It’s really made me reconsider the way I work.” Lisa Sammut’s 10-decade practice spans sculpture, light, video, installation… and now glass. Her beguiling new creations are showing at Canberra Glassworks.

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The Mulka Project is bringing Yolŋu culture to Canberra

“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.” Based in North East Arnhem Land, The Mulka Project is centred on sustaining Yolŋu cultural knowledge—and now their exquisite 60-metre projection will grace the National Gallery of Australia.

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Tony Albert’s home studio in Brisbane

“Collaboration is really the heart and soul of my practice, ” says Tony Albert when he takes us inside his home studio in Brisbane. With multiple exhibitions and commissions on the go, Albert will be the first artist showing at Sullivan+Strumpf’s new Melbourne gallery, opening this week.

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Bruce Reynolds resists the pretension of art

Known for his dynamic paintings created from reused materials, Bruce Reynolds is now making award-winning sculptures. It’s a busy time for Reynolds, with a survey exhibition at Brisbane’s Artisan gallery and work also showing across Canberra, Sydney and Rockhampton.

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Remembering the Wave Hill Walk-Off—and what it means today

In 1966 in the Northern Territory, 200 Gurindji workers pushed forward the land rights movement in Australia. Known as the Wave Hill Walk-Off, the strike protested Aboriginal land dispossession and worker exploitation. Now, Still in My Mind at ANU Drill Hall Gallery examines this significant moment.

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“The gift of time”: Lucy Turnbull creates art from conversations

Departing from her training in figurative painting, Lucy Turnbull’s Riverside exhibition at Sauerbier House embraces how conversations with the local community give new artistic expression.

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Chiharu Shiota and the intangible aspects of existence

Famous for her exquisite large-scale installations created from thousands of delicate red and black threads, Chiharu Shiota’s largest survey show to date is showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

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“A dialogue between the individual and the place”: Paul Gundry’s meditations on landscape

Paul Gundry’s landscapes hover close to the ground, capturing the light, atmospherics, and the imaginary qualities available within the Tasmanian landscape—as shown in his latest exhibition at Colville Gallery.

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Karla Marchesi’s latest floral forms speak to female agency

With work probing the socio-cultural conditions which define our age, Karla Marchesi’s latest paintings at Jan Manton Gallery are a bright contrast of floral forms, both in tone and colour.

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Solitude and landscape with Belynda Henry

Solitude is a habit for Belynda Henry and, as an artist, immersion in the landscape drives her paintings. Her latest works at Edwina Corlette distil imagery which is vested in place, conveying its many moods and experiences.

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Louise Martin-Chew

Writer