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Sebastian Di Mauro: Greenback
“I use green in my work often as a metaphor for greener fields,” he says. “My grandparents immigrated to Australia for this very reason. To create a better life for themselves and their children.”
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Monstrous Feminine
For The National, Tara Marynowsky has taken to “redirecting” a slew of 1990s film trailers, giving the female protagonists greater agency.
By Anna Dunnill
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Craftivism
Co-curated by SAM’s Anna Briers and Rebecca Coates, Craftivism features 18 Australian artists who share an affinity for craft-based art with political gestures.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Australian Story
Recognised for writing and illustrating Australian children’s classics like The Rainbow Serpent, Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey fostered an understanding of Indigenous culture.
By Briony Downes
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Justine Varga wins 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize
Justine Varga has won the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, taking out the $30,000 award with Photogenic drawing, 2018, a piece that blurs the boundaries between drawing and photography.
By Art Guide Australia
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Love, Displaced
Love, Displaced functions just as well as a general survey of video artists with strong, idiomatic voices as it does as an exploration of compassion in contemporary culture.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds
A master of optical illusion, M.C. Escher (1898–1972) was known for his mathematically inspired prints, which explore perspective, reflection, symmetry and tessellation.
By Laura Couttie
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The poetic and material forms of CONCRETE
Showing at JamFactory and set to tour Australia, CONCRETE brings together 21 projects by artists, architects and designers to explore the conceptual, expressive and material qualities of concrete.
By Tiarney Miekus
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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.
By Steve Dow
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Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz: Activity Centres
Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz describe the link between their art practices as a feeling of “abundance within sparseness.”
By Briony Downes
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Michael Vale: Time Traveller
The Melbourne-based painter’s new exhibition at Despard Gallery in Hobart, Time Traveller, features characters and elements that are peculiar yet oddly familiar.
By Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Catherine Truman: no surface holds
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
