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Reko Rennie: REMEMBER ME
On 29 April 1770 James Cook of the British Royal Navy landed at Kamay, which Europeans later named Botany Bay, New South Wales.
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Your weekly online art list #2
In our new world of hibernating and social distancing, galleries are full to bursting with virtual exhibition tours, podcasts, interviews with artists and curators, videos, and more. Stay tuned, each week one of the Art Guide editors will bring you a selection of online art highlights.
Anna Dunnill
Feature
Jac Ball focuses on trans bodies through photo-collage
Salmon bathroom tiles, pool inflatables, mottled carpet and Hawaiian shirts populate Perth artist Jac Ball’s photo-collage series PDA.
Sheridan Hart
Feature
Lucky or left-behind? Portraits from rural China
Working with families and pensioners in her home province, photographer Tami Xiang reveals China’s stark rural/urban divide.
Andy Butler
News
Alison Mackay wins the Gallipoli Art Prize with Breathe
Alison Mackay is the 2020 recipient of the $20,000 Gallipoli Art Prize for her painting Breathe.
Art Guide Australia
Interview
Frances Barrett on connecting through art and taking postponement day by day
Meatus is one of the many exhibitions that has been postponed due to restrictions on social gathering.
Briony Downes
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Your weekly online art list #1
In our new world of hibernating and social distancing, galleries are full to bursting with virtual exhibition tours, podcasts, interviews with artists and curators, videos, and more. Stay tuned, each week one of the Art Guide editors will bring you a selection of online art highlights.
Tracey Clement
Opinion
Hitting the class ceiling
Neha Kale unpacks the art world’s complicated relationship with money and power.
Neha Kale
Feature
The Subtle Art of the Residency
“Each artist and community volunteered for the unknown.”
Sheridan Hart
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Making art together: social activities for isolation
Art Guide spoke to some of the people at the NGV, AGNSW and QAGOMA who are working hard behind closed doors to keep these galleries open to the public.
Tracey Clement
Review
Marlee McMahon serves up an abstract feast in Digestif
These paintings have the qualities of modernism but with zing.
Zara Sigglekow
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Three gallery leaders talk COVID-19 challenges
What does COVID-19 mean for both the present and future of Australia’s major galleries?
