Exit Art Contemporary art from 2021 NT Year 12 Students
A celebration of the talents and creativity of the next generation of NT artists and designers.
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Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers
Chloé, the French nude by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, is an Australian cultural icon.
The Conversation
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Steve Lopes responds to identity in landscapes
The son of Italian migrants, Steve Lopes explores how cultural and psychological identity can evolve and expand in an Australian environment, with its “intensity of colour and light”, as he puts it. His latest show is at Orange Regional Gallery.
Barnaby Smith
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Who Are You: Australian Portraiture
From Polly Borland’s glittering photograph of Queen Elizabeth to Maree Clarke’s tremendously stitched possum skin cloak, to John Nixon’s cross painting, the exhibition Who Are You: Australian Portraiture at the National Gallery of Victoria is centered on challenging the traditional conventions of portraiture.
Briony Downes
Interview
Interview: Sally Smart on the politics of cutting and gender equity in the arts
For over three decades Sally Smart has gifted us her astounding assemblages. Smart talks about the inherent violence and restoration of her work, why structural change is needed for gender equity in the arts, and how her latest solo at Geelong Gallery is inspired by the Ballets Russes.