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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Centre for Contemporary Photography appoints Adam Harding as new director

The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne has appointed Adam Harding as its new director. Community engagement and artists having a voice are two CCP strengths Harding is keen to continue.

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Artslog aims to expose exploitation of arts workers

As part of a new exhibition, State of the Union, which explores partnerships between trade unions and arts workers, a group of Melbourne artists has launched a project to expose exploitation in the arts in Australia.

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State of the Art

GAG Projects presents four compelling artists in this year’s South Australian Living Artists Festival.

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Amala Groom asks Does she know the Revolution is coming?

Wiradjuri artist Amala Groom spent five years advocating for First Peoples’ rights and freedoms at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.

Interview

Jason Phu talks about The Burrangong Affray in 1860 and other racist riots

The 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art teamed Sydney-born artist Jason Phu with Hong Kong-born artist John Young Zerunge to take a fresh look at the 19th century riots on Australia’s goldfields, where resentment at Chinese miners boiled over.

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The End is the Beginning

French artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni speculate on the future of us, and the solar system, in a two part special at Mona.

Interview

With Seeing Hands

The exhibition With Seeing Hands features contributions from seven mostly Melbourne-based artists, some of whom identify as having sensory or mobility disabilities.

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Mami Kataoka: Superposition

At the helm of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, artistic director Mami Kataoka dives into the archives, calls on her ‘brother’ and puts art activism into perspective.

Interview

Ian Howard makes art not war

Like many artists of his generation, Ian Howard was politicised during the Vietnam War. But to call his art anti-war is too simplistic, as Steve Dow discovers speaking to Howard while the artist prepares his latest exhibition.

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The Brutal Art

A collaboration between Sydney’s Artspace and London’s Institute of Contemporary Art – Helen Johnson’s Warm Ties paints a confronting picture of Australia’s colonial legacy.

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Vale Ray Hughes 1946–2017

Ray Hughes was a legend of the Sydney art world with his loud ties, an assortment of hats, and a penchant for corduroy, as well as the services of a Beijing suit tailor of dubious taste.

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Yayoi Kusama

Complex and committed, international art star Yayoi Kusama lights up Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art with Life is the Heart of a Rainbow.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Centre for Contemporary Photography appoints Adam Harding as new director

Artslog aims to expose exploitation of arts workers

State of the Art

Amala Groom asks Does she know the Revolution is coming?

Jason Phu talks about The Burrangong Affray in 1860 and other racist riots

The End is the Beginning

With Seeing Hands

Mami Kataoka: Superposition

Ian Howard makes art not war

The Brutal Art

Vale Ray Hughes 1946–2017

Yayoi Kusama

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