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21st Biennale of Sydney: Tanya Goel
Infused with urban life, Tanya Goel’s works reference both weaving and the screen, mathematics and memory.
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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.
By Steve Dow
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Cement Fondu celebrates Suburbia
Cement Fondu, a new multi-disciplinary gallery, has opened in Sydney. Its inaugural exhibition Suburbia celebrates and unpacks the peripheries of the city.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Angelica Mesiti to represent Australia at the 2019 Venice Biennale
The Australia Council has announced artist Angelica Mesiti and curator Juliana Engberg as the Australian representatives for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
By Briony Downes
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TERROR NULLIUS
The two-person art collective position TERROR NULLIUS as an unwieldy road movie, using acts of sampling and appropriation to tour through, while also challenging, white Australian cinema and history.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Halinka Orszulok wins the 2018 Glover Prize
The Glover Prize for landscape painting has been awarded to Halinka Orszulok, a Jameberoo, New South Wales based artist.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Review: NGV Triennial
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial, a showcase of largely international contemporary art and design, is an exercise in mass spectacle, theatre and immersion.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Podcast: The Humours of Kenny Pittock
Kenny Pittock’s work seems relatable and commands us to look at the minutiae of every life. In the latest episode of our conversation series he talks about the organic use of humour in his work, while also touching upon his upcoming drawing residency at Deakin University Art Gallery.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Joel Crosswell: Anonymous Souls
Dreams and the subconscious are themes Joel Crosswell returns to often. His drawings and sculptures reference biographical events with a dreamlike sensibility where abstract elements of the natural world filter through his images.
By Briony Downes
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Australia Council Awards 2018
Visual artists Pat Brassington and Nigel Helyer have both been honoured with awards from the Australia Council in 2018.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Lisa Sewards: Thousand kisses deep
Lisa Sewards’s interest in parachutes stems from family lore. Her mother, who spent several childhood years in a European refugee camp, related a memory from that time of finding a silk parachute left over from the war.
By Anna Dunnill
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Lisa Reihana: Cinemania
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” or so goes the oft-quoted first line of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between. But when it comes to video art, the past is more like a galaxy far, far away. This is made abundantly clear in Cinemania, a survey show spanning three decades of video and photography by New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.
