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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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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The uncertain future of Sturt Gallery and Studios

Sturt Gallery and Studios, the pioneering design centre and school for contemporary craft, has operated in Mittagong since 1941. The space is currently under review to determine its future viability.

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Appreciating the life and art of Destiny Deacon

Destiny Deacon “was an artist who understood all that matters”, says the writer and poet Tony Birch, one of many friends and fellow creatives attending to their grief over the death of the esteemed multimedia artist last week, at the age of 67.

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Jumaadi and Everything In Between

Working between Indonesia and Australia, Jumaadi’s art draws on Javanese folk culture to excavate themes of colonialism, suffering, death and birth. His work is featured in an exhibition now showing at Bundanon Art Museum.

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Forty years of Steve McCurry’s iconic, global images

“Everybody has their own sense of truth.” The acclaimed photographer Steve McCurry, particularly known for his iconic photograph of an Afghan girl with green eyes which featured on the cover of National Geographic, has been travelling and documenting the world for over 40 years.

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Archie Moore drops first hints of his powerful, new work at the upcoming Venice Biennale

Archie Moore has revealed a deep dive into his family’s history for his holographic map of identity, kith and kin, as Australia’s entry in the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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Nathan Maynard’s act of repatriation

For Hobart Current Biennale, Nathan Maynard has created Relics Act—a project involving a volunteer’s willing sacrifice of their future deceased body on Lutruwita Country, which is how Maynard met 71-year-old Tony.

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The art heist you’ve never heard of

A new SBS documentary investigates the little-known 1986 art heist that saw 26 priceless paintings stolen from a remote monastery in Western Australia.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

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

The uncertain future of Sturt Gallery and Studios

Appreciating the life and art of Destiny Deacon

Jumaadi and Everything In Between

Forty years of Steve McCurry’s iconic, global images

Archie Moore drops first hints of his powerful, new work at the upcoming Venice Biennale

Nathan Maynard’s act of repatriation

The art heist you’ve never heard of

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