BSIDE Gallery

BSIDE Gallery is the new generation of art spaces; young, energetic and looking to break the rules.

We strive to defy the trend of closing creative spaces and reclaim artistic turf in what is Melbourne’s oldest suburb; and in doing so offer genuine support to all artists interested in and involvement with both the gallery and the adjoining studios. The space provides a dynamic platform for artists that challenges the norm of the traditional gallery setting, a rarity amongst the ever-increasing tides of development.

BSIDE Gallery

121 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

0410 159 383

bsidegallery.com

Thu 6.30pm – 8.30pm,
Fri 12noon – 6pm,
Sat to Sun 10am – 6pm,
Closed Monday to Wednesday.

Preview

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

Feature

Stranger than fiction: Magritte and Cao Fei

In two new exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, René Magritte and Cao Fei speak to each other across cultures and eras about the way that perception can unsettle reality—and the places the real intersects with the surreal.

Sally Gearon

Feature

The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

Feature

Trevor Vickers and the abstraction of light

Trevor Vickers reflects on his six-decade career in hard-edged abstraction, the value that Perth’s light offers painters, and how his latest exhibition at Art Collective WA focuses on a series of quieter works.

Steve Dow

In Pictures

Beasts of burden at the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale

A new event has arrived in Melbourne’s cultural calendar with the inauguration of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: an exhibition that aims to showcase the breadth and diversity of contemporary sculpture in Victoria.

Art Guide Australia

Book Reviews

A compact but rewarding monograph that delves inside Natalya Hughes’s layered practice

Natalya Hughes has a conflicted fascination with modernist men like Freud, Kirchner and de Kooning. Jane O’Sullivan takes a look at The Interior, the Institute of Modern Art monograph on her recent practice, and discovers difficult and provocative questions about not just the representation of women in art and culture, but also the careers of women artists in Australia.

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