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Anita Cummins wins Schenberg Art Fellowship at Hatched
Anita Cummins has won the $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship for recent art school graduates.
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The Australian Ceramics Triennale
For four days, much of Australia’s ceramics community will descend on Princes Wharf in Hobart for a series of panel discussions, presentations and artist talks with international luminaries and local potters alike.
By Varia Karipoff
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The Essential Duchamp
“Duchamp is one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century,” says Nicholas Chambers, coordinating curator of The Essential Duchamp.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Elyas Alavi: Daydreamer Wolf
Hazara artist Elyas Alavi’s practice is motivated by poetry, the masks a survivor wears and the plight of those left behind.
By Tracey Clement
Interview
Richard Bell on gate-crashing the Venice Biennale
In his Venice work, We Don’t Really Need This / EMBASSY, Bell has wrapped a replica of the Australian Pavilion in chains (an institutional critique through an architectural intervention), sited it on a barge, and sailed it throughout the Venetian lagoon.
By Louise Martin-Chew
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James Powditch assembles memories in Codakhrome
James Powditch’s new exhibition Codakhrome explores the fragility of memory.
By Jane O'Sullivan
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Dobell Drawing Prize #21
What is drawing? According to the catalogue for its 21st iteration, the Dobell Drawing Prize has always invited this query. It seems like a simple question, but in Dobell Drawing Prize #21 the answer was convoluted.
By Tracey Clement
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Kevin Chin: Structural Equality
Melbourne artist Kevin Chin was on a residency in Yellowstone National Park in the US when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. In an increasingly partisan America he started on his latest series of paintings, Structural Equality.
By Andy Butler
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Kaldor Public Art Project 34: Asad Raza
American artist Asad Raza creates a new site-specific work for Kaldor Public Art Project 34 at Carriageworks.
By Art Guide Australia
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Matilda Davis: I have something to show you
While one might draw a rapid conclusion that surrealism is her starting point, the way Davis’s works reference medieval or gothic dress, and a kind of grotesqueness, recall grottesche – forms that adorned Gothic buildings and conceptualised alterity.
By Varia Karipoff
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Mirjana Dobson: Oecologia
Ceramic artist Mirjana Dobson is deeply inspired by Haeckel’s drawings and her work mimics the organic forms of ocean plants and animals, particularly those found in coral reefs.
By Briony Downes
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Rosslynd Piggott: I sense you but I cannot see you
Rosslynd Piggott is drawn to substances that are slippery, liminal. They flow between states, take shape when held. My notes from her survey exhibition, I sense you but I cannot see you, read like a list of ingredients for a spell.
