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Samstag Museum of Art

Direct, Directed, Directly

Communication is a two-way process that can sometimes succeed and sometimes fail spectacularly. Nevertheless, this exhibition proposes that, amid the inherent frustration, futility and misunderstandings, there is catharsis to be found in the humour and absurdity of our attempts to connect.

Works by Richard Bell (Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang), Madison Bycroft, Kuba Dorabialski, Danielle Freakley, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, Monte Masi and Chunxiao Qu.

28 February—30 May

Samstag Museum of Art

55 North Terrace Adelaide SA 5000

unisa.edu.au/connect/samstag-museum/

In Pictures

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

In a new photography exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba is exploring what it means to be African-Australian, while highlighting the importance of culturally safe spaces for diasporic communities in Australia.

Art Guide Australia

Opinion

Of art and appetites

Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.

Lee Tran Lam

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Colour mapping

The National Gallery of Australia’s latest Know My Name exhibition presents the work of Australian fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson alongside pieces by Sonia Delauney, tracing the French artist and designer’s influential use of colour and light.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Feature

Kate Vassallo draws the line

Kate Vassallo’s Ripple marks the conclusion of Artereal Gallery’s exhibition program, as the Sydney gallery is closing its doors after nearly two decades.

Camilla Wagstaff

Feature

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

For Dane Mitchell, Slvalbard—a mysterious archipelago north of the Arctic circle—gives the tensions that shape our ecological moment a new and intriguing form.

Louise Martin-Chew

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Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Wanda Gillespie’s handcrafted sculptures embody ideas of the sacred.

Her latest exhibition, Of Counting and Devotion, is now showing at Craft Victoria’s Vitrine Gallery.

Samstag Museum of Art

Direct, Directed, Directly

28 February—30 May

Samstag Museum of Art

Suggested Reading

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

Art Guide Australia

Of art and appetites

Lee Tran Lam

Colour mapping

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kate Vassallo draws the line

Camilla Wagstaff

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

Louise Martin-Chew

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Briony Downes

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Samstag Museum of Art

Direct, Directed, Directly

28 February—30 May

Samstag Museum of Art

Suggested Reading

Inside the heart of African-Australian communities

Art Guide Australia

Of art and appetites

Lee Tran Lam

Colour mapping

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kate Vassallo draws the line

Camilla Wagstaff

A land outside time: on Dane Mitchell’s The Imponderables

Louise Martin-Chew

Wanda Gillespie’s divine interventions

Briony Downes

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