Bec Gallo

Bec Gallo is writer, artist, curator, educator, and arts worker based on Gadigal land. They were a founding co-director of Pari, and have written for publications including Runway, Art Collector, and Vault, as well as catalogue essays for public, commercial, and artist-run galleries.

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Embracing darkness with Akil Ahamat

In their debut solo exhibition Extinguishing Hope, now showing at UTS Gallery, Akil Ahamat uses darkness—both literal and metaphorical—to examine what can be gained when everything is lost.

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A particularly subtropical feel

Marian Tubbs moved from Sydney to the northern New South Wales town of Lismore in February this year, and already this new setting is weaving its way into her practice.

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Spinifex Artists tell their stories

On Our Country vividly shows how the Spinifex Artists have been reconnecting with waterholes and Dreaming sites that their families were forced to leave over half a century ago. Painting is one of many ways that their stories are retold and recorded.

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The cultural legacy of Billy Missi

Billy Missi believed in the power of art to make change.

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Giselle Stanborough on performing our own surveillance

Giselle Stanborough’s Cinopticon was relevant well before the current pandemic crisis. But as our personal and professional lives are moving online rapidly and more comprehensively than ever, Stanborough’s research takes on a kind of chilling urgency.

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Little archaeological treasures

Louise Gresswell gives us an insight into the very process of painting itself.

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WATERLICHT shines a light on rising waters during the Fremantle Biennale

WATERLICHT, an immersive installation by Dutch art and design firm Studio Roosegaarde, will make its Southern Hemisphere debut at Fremantle Biennale this November.

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Performing labour in Alicia Frankovich’s The Work

In The Work, the focus is on the labouring body. How do bodies act and react when they are put to work? What might this reveal about physical strength and limitations, power dynamics and social relations?

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Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy

The use of his own body may be a convenient framework for Christian Thompson, but it also implies an emotional and personal investment that lends his work power and immediacy.

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Future food on the menu in Plenty

As urbanised humans are increasingly distanced from the means of food production, the choice of what and how we eat becomes a political act.

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Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.

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Playback: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018

Drawing traditionally takes the form of charcoal on canvas or graphite on paper, but arguably one can draw with anything that makes a mark: sand, light, ink, paint. The artists in Playback explore the potential of what drawing can be.

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Bec Gallo

Bec Gallo's Articles

Embracing darkness with Akil Ahamat

A particularly subtropical feel

Spinifex Artists tell their stories

The cultural legacy of Billy Missi

Giselle Stanborough on performing our own surveillance

Little archaeological treasures

WATERLICHT shines a light on rising waters during the Fremantle Biennale

Performing labour in Alicia Frankovich’s The Work

Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy

Future food on the menu in Plenty

Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy

Playback: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018

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