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Gordon Hookey

A Murriality

Encompassing large-scale painting, sculpture, printmaking, and video, A Murriality is the first survey of renowned Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey, charting three decades of work fusing art and activism.

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Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

Interview

Vipoo Srivilasa on heritage and healing

Vipoo Srivilasa is a Melbourne-based, Thai-born Australian artist whose ceramic artworks emanate a sense of positivity, playfulness and joy. In an interview with fellow ceramicist Sassy Park, he discusses his early introduction to the medium, curating the Australian-Asian ceramic exhibition Generation Clay, and his upcoming project re/JOY.

Sassy Park

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Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.

Briony Downes

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Self reflections with Jack Ball

In his latest exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Jack Ball challenges the extractive history of the archive while searching for shapes that can articulate the complexity of trans life.

Gordon Hookey

A Murriality

Suggested Reading

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Jennifer Yang

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

Jane O'Sullivan

Vipoo Srivilasa on heritage and healing

Sassy Park

Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

Briony Downes

Self reflections with Jack Ball

Josephine Mead

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Gordon Hookey

A Murriality

Suggested Reading

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Jennifer Yang

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

Jane O'Sullivan

Vipoo Srivilasa on heritage and healing

Sassy Park

Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

Briony Downes

Self reflections with Jack Ball

Josephine Mead

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