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.
Exhibiting as part of Sydney Festival, Vernon Ah Kee vows not to shy away from thorny questions.
Based on an idea by French philosopher Paul Virilio, EXIT draws on a quarter of a century’s worth of scientific data to vividly animate the world’s hot spots of deforestation, rising seas and mass migration as a result of global warming.
In Stephen Dupont’s The White Sheet Series it is the curious bystanders standing adrift that captivate.
Isaac Julien’s father wanted the artist to become a banker or a lawyer: the transferred ambition was his dad’s version of a better life. Julien’s parents wanted a better life for themselves too.
A complex photo installation and three-dimensional sculpture, including a backlit crypt made of wood, will be central to the exhibition.
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.
A difficult education has not deterred Tony Albert from a pluralistic approach to making art – at once forgiving and subversive.
Local and Korean artists pick through environmental degradation, disaster and detritus in New Romance: Art and the Posthuman.
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.
More than 3000 pieces are on display, representing only 75 per cent of Roche’s collection…
Sydney-born artist and filmmaker George Gittoes makes art wherever there is conflict, including: Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan…
Photo and video artist Lisa Reihana describes herself as “native two-times over”…
