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Open House
The Lyon family throws open the doors to its newly minted Housemuseum Galleries with the aptly titled exhibition, Enter.
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Age of Empire
Andrew Nicholls walked the ruins of Hadrian’s Villa, partied in Venice, wore britches and white makeup in the piazze and hiked up aching-to-erupt volcanoes. Hyperkulturemia collects the artist’s forays into the romance and revelry of the tour.
By Sheridan Coleman
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Cassils: Alchemic
Elucidated with a level of technical finesse that Loxley describes as “dazzling,” Cassils’ work is fierce, raw and unflinching.
By Anna Dunnill
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Janet Laurence: After Nature
After Nature is filled with works that are aesthetically alluring and spectacular in scale.
By Tracey Clement
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Darren Gannon: Memento
Memento, comprising more than a dozen oil paintings, has an elegiac quality. Gannon says the works were mainly created from memory rather than setting up on site for an exercise in “look and put”.
By Andrew Stephens
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Melbourne Design Week 2019
Melbourne Design Week features over 170 events including exhibitions, screenings, talks, tours and workshops, spanning throughout NGV and greater Melbourne.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Piers Greville wins 2019 Glover Prize
Piers Greville has won the 2019 Glover Prize, awarded for landscape paintings of Tasmania. The Melbourne-based artist took out the $50,000 prize with his bold graphic painting, Pedder Prime Cuts.
By Art Guide Australia
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Shifting Light: Lydia Wegner
The set-up of Lydia Wegner’s staged photographs is unassuming. Cast from readymade materials the results are otherworldly.
By Zara Sigglekow
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Dirty Paper
When staff took five local artists through the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) collection to see what might grab them, the idea was to eventually have these emerging and mid-career artists show new drawing works in the gallery.
By Andrew Stephens
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Podcast: Fiona Abicare on the adventures of mediums
Fiona Abicare works at the junction between contemporary art and interiors, always creating directly in relation to a certain site or context.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Artists Susan Norrie and Joyce Hinterding win Australia Council Awards
Artists Susan Norrie and Joyce Hinterding have both received awards from the Australia Council in a gala event held in Sydney on Monday 4 March.
By Art Guide Australia
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Joan Ross: Did you ask the river?
Virtual reality and art are not often paired together, but last year Sydney-based artist Joan Ross took the plunge in this still-developing medium after being awarded the second Mordant Family VR Commission.
