Steve Dow

Writer

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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Greg Semu uses Samoan tattoo and Christian iconography to start a conversation

A complex photo installation and three-dimensional sculpture, including a backlit crypt made of wood, will be central to the exhibition.

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Jonathan Jones creates a memorial to loss in the 32nd Kaldor Art Project

Almost 20 years ago as a young art student, Jonathan Jones, of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of south-east Australia, went to the Australian Museum to research the origins of his people in the Murray-Darling region.

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Ashes in the Air

A difficult education has not deterred Tony Albert from a pluralistic approach to making art – at once forgiving and subversive.

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New Romance: Art and the Posthuman

Local and Korean artists pick through environmental degradation, disaster and detritus in New Romance: Art and the Posthuman.

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Frida and Diego

Torrid and tempestuous, Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s personal relationship produced influential works that were as self-referential as they were ostensibly surreal.