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Robyn Sweaney: Backwards looking forwards
“In this new body of work my paintings focus on houses that were influenced by the trend of modernism that crept into the suburbs, mainly in the 1960s,” says Sweaney.
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James Geurts works between landscape and perception
The work of James Geurts traverses a range of territories: fault lines in Bendigo, archaeological sites in Melbourne, Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory, tectonic plates colliding in Italy and two different points on the meridian.
By Tiarney Miekus
Review
Extra
In her solo show Extra, Adrienne Doig stitched herself into reproductions of the Bayeux Tapestry. This cheeky act of historical revision highlights the fact that in all propaganda, as in all histories, the officially sanctioned version is never the whole story.
By Tracey Clement
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Clare Milledge: Sacks of wind: a rock harder than rock
Milledge’s visual language slips between abstract painting and witchy mysticism; the connections between work and title often oblique. Is gazing at a painting and trying to divine its meaning really so different from reading entrails or casting bones?
By Anna Dunnill
Review
Killing Time
Despite the health risks associated with smoking, the act has played a shifting emblematic role across cultural history.
By Zara Sigglekow
Interview
Interview: Sarah Contos
When encountering the work of multidisciplinary artist Sarah Contos one is often moved by surprise or curiosity, or caught off-guard by something dualistic, nostalgic or contradictory.
By Varia Karipoff
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Nick Cave: Until
At first glance, Nick Cave’s Until is a charm offensive: a crowd-pleasing, selfie-backdrop, colour-and-movement spectacle complete with accompanying gift shop, but there are tougher meanings here too.
By Rebecca Shanahan
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Electric! Portraits that pop!
Bright, arresting portraits were on the hit list for National Portrait Gallery curator Christopher Chapman when he started putting together a new show to help celebrate the gallery’s 20th anniversary.
By Andrew Stephens
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Anne Mestitz: Timbre
Timbre represents Mestitz’s first collection of two-dimensional paintings on board, a departure from the architectural blends of sculpture and painting she has been working with since the late 1990s.
By Briony Downes
News
Sydney Modern gets green light and Green Star rating
The $344 million Sydney Modern expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has been given State Government planning consent, allowing construction of the new building, designed by Japanese architects SANAA, to begin early next year.
By Steve Dow
Feature
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)
The Asia-Pacific region might be an uncertain construct, but Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial is about knowing our neighbours and ourselves.
By Steve Dow
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Liu Zhuoquan and Li Ning
“Their works speak to their particular interests,” says Murphy, “which are indebted to the ancient traditions of a long existing culture, but that also look outside this to Western art.”
