Steve Dow

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Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.

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Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

In her audacious new exhibition, the Filipina Australian artist Marikit Santiago skewers the myths of the western canon and give pleasure and power—as experienced by women of colour—an arresting new form.

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Imants Tillers gets metaphysical

In his latest exhibition, now showing at Bett Gallery, Postmodern painter and writer Imants Tillers is influenced by a variety of sources including the metaphysical style of Italian artist Georgio de Chirico.

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Khaled Sabsabi on the 61st Venice Biennale: “We need a way forward to exist and co-exist.”

After announcing last week that artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino would represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has made the unprecedented decision to drop the team.

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All that glitters with The Huxleys

Partners in life and art, Will and Garrett Huxley’s sequined wonderland pays homage to their queer artist forebears. Their first collective survey, now showing at Fremantle Arts Centre, unfurls a decade of photography, music recordings, costume, film and performance.

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Telly Tuita’s life in technicolour

Tongan legends and pop culture heroes face off in the work of Telly Tuita, an artist whose freewheeling visual language articulates the light and shade of experience and the multiple selves we contain. Tuita is now showing as part of Sydney Festival.

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Jonathan Jones on Country and kinship

bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, curated by Jonathan Jones and now showing at Bundanon, highlights a long history of Indigenous art on the New South Wales south coast, with works and installations from Jones, Aunty Julie Freeman, Aunty Cheryl Davison, and Mickey of Ulladulla.

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Poetic relations at the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Bringing together 70 artists from 30 countries, the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art fosters connections across cultures and borders, and translates cultural knowledge for the present day.

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Rob McHaffie hones in on homelife

Melbourne-born figurative artist and ceramicist Rob McHaffie takes a global view of human idiosyncrasy. His biggest exhibition to date, now showing at Bendigo Art Gallery, covers over a decade of his painting practice.

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Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light

Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.

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The shining light of Robert Eadie

In his first major exhibition in over a decade, now showing at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Robert Eadie showcases his expansive oeuvre of paintings and drawings—a body of work developed over his 60-year career as an artist.

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Echoes of Central Australia

An important, beloved site for Central Australian arts, Araluen Arts Centre is now celebrating its 40th anniversary with a reflective exhibition highlighting its vast collection.

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Joy and nostalgia: inside Callum Preston’s Video Land

The Immigration Museum’s Joy exhibition offers seven Victorian artists a whole room in which to convey what joy means to them. Callum Preston has recreated a nostalgia-soaked video store, straight out of the 90’s.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Marikit Santiago’s divine interventions

Imants Tillers gets metaphysical

Khaled Sabsabi on the 61st Venice Biennale: “We need a way forward to exist and co-exist.”

All that glitters with The Huxleys

Telly Tuita’s life in technicolour

Jonathan Jones on Country and kinship

Poetic relations at the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Rob McHaffie hones in on homelife

Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light

The shining light of Robert Eadie

Echoes of Central Australia

Joy and nostalgia: inside Callum Preston’s Video Land

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