Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Nadiah Abdulrahim is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from the University of Tasmania before turning her attention to editing and publishing. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Vault and Composite Journal.

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Defining Moments: <em>Popism</em> at the National Gallery of Victoria 1982

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Defining Moments: Popism at the National Gallery of Victoria 1982

Examining pivotal movements that shaped Australian art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)’s lecture series ‘Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1969–1999’ is going online.

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<i>Misfit</i>: <i>Collage and Queer Practice</i>

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Misfit: Collage and Queer Practice

Misfit features the work of 11 contemporary queer artists from Australia and abroad who use some form of “expanded collage” in their practice.

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FEM-aFFINITY

At the heart of the group exhibition FEM-aFFINITY is intersectional, inclusive feminism.

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Shirin Neshat: Dreamers

It’s interesting to note that at a time when Western relations with Iran are once again becoming markedly, worryingly strained, Neshat appears to be heading in a broader direction in her work, away from the politically charged direction of her past.

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now

This is not an exhibition to digest quickly or casually…

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Roger Kemp: finding the missing modernist

Best known for the monumental Great Hall tapestries at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), the legacy of painter Roger Kemp is being re-assessed in three concurrent exhibitions.

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Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: All that arises

Through perforations, rubbings, and Vietnamese Braille, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 25-year practice gets under the skin—and the surface—of her materials.

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Bill Henson’s past and present collide in <i>The light fades but the gods remain</i>

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Bill Henson’s past and present collide in The light fades but the gods remain

The exhibition features Henson’s series Untitled 1985–86– informally known as ‘the suburban series’ – and a new body of work commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art for its 25th anniversary, Untitled 2018–19.

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Eveline Kotai: Invisible Threads

Invisible Threads places emphasis on Kotai’s more recent fabric collages, a technique she happened on by chance in the early 2000s.

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Getting to know Bugai

One of the many interesting things about Bugai’s oeuvre is her stylistic diversity. Tight controlled dot-work sits comfortably alongside – and sometimes underneath – loose brushwork.

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Vincent Namatijira wins $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize

This year, the winner of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize is artist Vincent Namatjira, for his double-sided portrait work titled: Close Contact, 2018.

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Bruno Booth: <i>Hostile Infrastructure</i>

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Bruno Booth: Hostile Infrastructure

Bruno Booth’s latest work is the installation Hostile Infrastructure, created with the idea of showing what navigating day-to-day life is like for someone who uses a wheelchair.

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Nadiah Abdulrahim

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