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Listen With Your Whole Body
Sonic artists reveal the rewards of deep listening, reshaping our perception of place.
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Patrizia Biondi: It’s A Circus Out There
Patrizia Biondi uses recycled cardboard to create elaborate sculptural assemblages that critique consumer culture.
Briony Downes
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The Skywhale family shows us what caring means
Patricia Piccinini’s powerfully maternal Skywhale is joined by Skywhalepapa, a gargantuan male counterpart gently embracing a litter of bulbous offspring.
Briony Downes
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The priest and the porter
From towering freeway sculpture to tiny glass-encased dioramas, Louise Paramor’s distinctive assemblages evoke both familiarity and wonder.
Tiarney Miekus
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Maggie Hensel-Brown on lace, labour and female rage
The intricate art of lace-making might bring to mind your grandmother’s tea-table, but it’s long been used to tell grand tales of war and passion, gods and kings.
Anna Dunnill
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The quilts of Jess Johnson and Cynthia Johnson
Known for her immersive VR works, Jess Johnson has collaborated with her mother Cynthia to turn her obsessive drawings into quilts.
Tracey Clement
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Painting decision fatigue
Amber Boardman’s large-scale paintings look at how both decision fatigue and the internet are shaping our lives and interactions.
Tiarney Miekus
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Flow of Language, Flow of Life
Why Joi T. Arcand wants you to learn the Cree language.
Steve Dow
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David Keeling paints landscapes he’s familiar with in Stranger
Stranger, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), is a survey show which offers an insight into the way David Keeling sees Tasmania.
Briony Downes
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Private life, public face—how a portrait is made
At the National Portrait Gallery, Before hand: the private life of the portrait delves into the back-stories of how subject and artist come together to make a work.
Andrew Stephens
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Make the World Again
Weaving is synonymous with world-making. In numerous cultures, the loom is a metaphor for creation; a person’s life often represented by a spun thread.
Anna Dunnill
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Constructing Landscape presents urban visions in the bush
Constructing Landscape: urban visions reflects a new chapter in the nation’s consideration of how the urban environment might be represented.
