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Pages of Me: A Bird, an Eye, Clouds, Ice cream

A new multimedia project by Beci Orpin, exploring the journey of finding happiness through individuality and embracing one’s unique self.

15 February—5 April

Manningham Art Gallery

Manningham Art Gallery, 687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster VIC, Australia

manningham.vic.gov.au/gallery

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

Interview

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. With a new solo exhibition at Bett Gallery, Brassington gives a rare interview talking about studying art in her thirties, psychoanalysis, and discovering feminism through a wives’ book club.

Tiarney Miekus

Feature

Pure Shores: On the allure of Henry Roy’s Impossible Island

The images of Haitian-French photographer Henry Roy—on display for the first time at the Art Gallery of Western Australia—are a tribute to the landscapes that loom large in our imagination and a beguiling antidote to the brutality of the world.

Michael Sun

Feature

Yona Lee’s object lessons

For the Auckland-based artist Yona Lee, who has a new commission at the Melbourne Art Fair, function is a source of formal possibility and ordinary material moulds space in extraordinary ways.

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Manningham Art Gallery

Beci Orpin

Pages of Me: A Bird, an Eye, Clouds, Ice cream

15 February—5 April

Manningham Art Gallery

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

Pat Brassington is mining the unconscious

Tiarney Miekus

Pure Shores: On the allure of Henry Roy’s Impossible Island

Michael Sun

Yona Lee’s object lessons

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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