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Animal Kingdom
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr present Biomess where animal oddities, living tissues and mysterious organisms penetrate the science/art divide.
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Christopher Pease: Minang Boodjar
A Minang/Noongar man from Western Australia, Christopher Pease creates multi-layered paintings combining traditional Indigenous stories with 19th-century colonial narratives, powerfully subverting images like those produced by Lieutenant Robert Dale and his contemporaries.
By Briony Downes
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Justene Williams: Project Dead Empathy
Justene Williams was on the road to Sydney when we first spoke ahead of her solo exhibition, Project Dead Empathy, at Sarah Cottier Gallery.
By Rebecca Gallo
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Decade: Celebrating 10 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery
Hugo Michell opened his eponymous gallery in Adelaide at a hazardous time – it was late in 2008, and the GFC was in full effect.
By Nadiah Abdulrahim
Feature
Black and White
David Goldblatt unblinkingly captured South African history over 70 years, yet his photographs reveal a universality of human experience
By Briony Downes
News
Alex Gawronski, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley win 2018 NAVA Fellowships
Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).
By Steve Dow
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Denis Beaubois awarded inaugural Create NSW and MCA Visual Arts
Congratulations to Denis Beaubois who has been awarded the first Create NSW and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) NSW Visual Arts Mid-Career/Established Fellowship.
By Art Guide Australia
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Weapons for the Soldier
Showing at Hazlehurst Arts Centre, Weapons for the Soldier brings together 41 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on warfare and the inherent drive to protect country, family and culture.
By Tiarney Miekus
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Paul Yore on the radical slowness of craft
For Paul Yore’s latest solo exhibition at Neon Parc, Your Capital is at Risk, the artist has mined his own practice in the same way he mines popular culture: pulling together every possible scrap of material into a jangling visual cacophony.
By Anna Dunnill
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Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam
Love takes many forms. In Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam, love is expressed through prayer, spirituality, hospitality, friendship, and sex. It is woven into textiles and adorned with gold leaf; shaped into silverware and glazed into tiles and pots.
By Anna Dunnill
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Tony Tuckson
Watters Gallery, which opened in 1964, is staging its final exhibition, a selection of figurative works from the estate of Tony Tuckson, a painter known primarily as a gifted abstractionist.
By Tracey Clement
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Antoinette Barbouttis wins Black Swan Prize for Portraiture 2018
NSW-based artist and theatre designer Antoinette Barbouttis has won the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with a large charcoal drawing.
