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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Channels Festival turns the spotlight on video art

Channels launches this year on 24 August with a showcase exhibition including artist Reko Rennie from Australia, London-Istanbul pair Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, and Almagul Menlibayeva who is based in Germany and Kazakhstan.

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Virtual Reality: Undoing the Colonial Gaze, and Endless Peripheral Vision

Steve Dow looks at a number of artists who see VR as loaded with both hope and fear.

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Online portal preserves Ngaanyatjarra culture

Sydney University has launched a portal about the remote Ngaanyatjarra world, created in consultation with the community, its contents approved by elders.

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It All Started With a Stale Sandwich

It All Started With a Stale Sandwich is a documentary about the 50-year history of Kaldor Public Art Projects, made by London-born, Sydney-based film director Samantha Lang.

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Sabella D’Souza takes on Julia Roberts

D’Souza will be showing a body of new work in an exhibition titled with three emojis: a pizza slice, praying hands and a heart, as in Eat, Pray, Love.

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Revealed

Revealed provides fertile ground for emerging Indigenous artists to exchange ideas, showcase diverse practices and sell work.

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Elizabeth Cross talks about the symbolism and majesty of trees

Melbourne-based curator and art historian Elizabeth Cross is less known for her own work as an artist, but this identification is shifting with the opening of her exhibition, Arborescent, at the Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery.

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The first 33 artists in 2020 Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN

Brook Andrew has announced the first 33 artists, creatives and collectives who will participate in the next BOS, many of whom are First Nations artists.

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Vale Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon, who has died at the age of 78, served for 33 years as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), an institution with which his name remains indelibly linked.

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The Dark Web

Showing in Adelaide, Roger Ballen’s works have caught the world’s attention with their apocalyptic, disturbing and dreamlike air.

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Sanaa brings African artists to Adelaide

The first Sanaa Festival was held in Adelaide in 2017. This year, six African artists are being flown to Australia and more will have work in the Sanaa Exhibition, which is part of the Adelaide Fringe festival.

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Between Heaven and Earth

A capsule collection of the National Palace Museum’s priceless art and artefacts captures the essence of Chinese culture.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Channels Festival turns the spotlight on video art

Virtual Reality: Undoing the Colonial Gaze, and Endless Peripheral Vision

Online portal preserves Ngaanyatjarra culture

It All Started With a Stale Sandwich

Sabella D’Souza takes on Julia Roberts

Revealed

Elizabeth Cross talks about the symbolism and majesty of trees

The first 33 artists in 2020 Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN

Vale Edmund Capon

The Dark Web

Sanaa brings African artists to Adelaide

Between Heaven and Earth

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