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Roger Kemp: finding the missing modernist
Best known for the monumental Great Hall tapestries at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), the legacy of painter Roger Kemp is being re-assessed in three concurrent exhibitions.
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Angela Tiatia & Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows
Visual artists Angela Tiatia and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are among the nine Sidney Myer Creative Fellows for 2019. Nominated artists must meet the criteria of “outstanding talent and exceptional professional courage.”
Art Guide Australia
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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.
Louise Martin-Chew
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A new look at the women who shaped Brisbane’s art scene
Assembled from the Museum of Brisbane collection and significant loans, New Woman chronicles 100 years of female artists in Brisbane.
Sheridan Hart
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Tony Costa wins 2019 Archibald Prize
This year, Tony Costa won the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Lindy Lee. The Sulman prize was won by McLean Edwards with The first girl that knocked on his door and Sylvia Ken was awarded the Wynne for Seven Sisters.
Steve Dow
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Sydney Contemporary 2019
More than 90 Australian and international galleries are taking part in Sydney Contemporary 2019. The competition for attention can be likened to an arena of visual titans, with galleries prominently displaying their biggest and most bankable artists.
Briony Downes
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Peek behind closed doors at Spring1883
Hotel rooms are a weird blend of public and private space—which, according to Spring1883 co-founder Kate Barber, makes them great places for viewing and selling contemporary art.
Tracey Clement
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Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection
Often perceived as a modest artform compared to, say, the grandiosity of painting, printmaking has been a site of experimentation, a fact highlighted in Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection at the National Gallery of Australia.
Zara Sigglekow
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Analogous Objects
Adelaide artist Louise Haselton creates sculptures using unexpected materials that land in carefully orchestrated balance.
Zara Sigglekow
Interview
Susan Cohn on the personal and political power of jewellery
With a practice spanning four decades, Melbourne-based jeweller Susan Cohn makes both highly wearable and deeply political work.
Tracey Clement
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Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: All that arises
Through perforations, rubbings, and Vietnamese Braille, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 25-year practice gets under the skin—and the surface—of her materials.
Nadiah Abdulrahim
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Walking in the uncanny rain
In Rain Room, the environment controls us and we control it in an uneasy symbiotic relationship.
