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The visceral nature of painting
Tom Polo is interested in the space between things—actions, gestures and words—and the body’s movement through the environment.
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Cataloguing all we know
Camille Henrot identifies systems of understanding the world, and turns them inside out.
Zara Sigglekow
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Kitchen Creations: Recipes by Bo Wong, Mike Bianco and Mark Valenzuela
In Kitchen Creations, Art Guide talks to artists about cooking. For the second part of this series, Sheridan Hart spoke to Bo Wong, Mike Bianco and Mark Valenzuela about channelling their energies into food and drinks, and they shared some of their favourite recipes.
Sheridan Hart
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Tennant Creek Brio talk through their Biennale art
Although only active for four years, the Brio are currently showing at Artspace and Cockatoo Island for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN.
Tiarney Miekus
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Between worlds
The conceptual backbone of Bundit Puangthong’s art is the tension between holding onto the past and letting go.
Amelia Winata
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Adrienne Doig on bringing people together with toilet paper rolls
As toilet paper (or the lack of it) made national headlines, artist Adrienne Doig turned a by-product of this basic commodity – the left over cardboard rolls – into a feel-good doll-making project anyone can do at home.
Tracey Clement
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Two artists and the Parisian avant-garde
Australian artists Bessie Davidson (1879–1965) and Sally Smart are connected not only by relation: they are also both strong feminist presences in male-dominated, avant-garde traditions.
Michaela Bear
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Searching for Something Else
Colin Langridge responds to the global environmental crisis with a series of large-scale wooden sculptures at Colville Gallery.
Briony Downes
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Little archaeological treasures
Louise Gresswell gives us an insight into the very process of painting itself.
Rebecca Gallo
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NGA announces first major international post-Covid-19 exhibition
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), which re-opened to the public on 2 June, has announced new dates for the major international exhibition, Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London.
Art Guide Australia
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Lockdown Libraries: Mark Schaller
In Lockdown Libraries, Art Guide asks artists what they’ve been reading while working through the pandemic. In the third part of this series, Tracey Clement found out what Mark Schaller has on his bookshelves.
Tracey Clement
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Weekly Online Art List #8
This week for ‘Your weekly online art list’ our print editor Anna Dunnill recommends online art highlights including Always was, always will be, a ‘pocket exhibition’ on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website, Kolour Me Kweer: a glittering celebration of diversity at Blacktown Arts, a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce and the National Gallery of Victoria’s curator of Indigenous art, new works by Yukultji Napangati at Utopia Arts, and much more.
