Cement Fondu

Cement Fondu is an evolving arts space located in Paddington, Sydney, on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation.

It presents a diverse year-round program of visual arts exhibitions that feature performance, dance and music by Australian and international artists.

Its Art Store, Project Space, online presence and program of public events aim to offer alternative and engaging ways for people to encounter artists and their practices.

Cement Fondu

36 Gosbell Street, Paddington NSW 2021

02 9331 7775

cementfondu.org

Thu to Sun 11am–5pm

Preview

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

Feature

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

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Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

Review

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.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana and inherited influence

In Anmatyerr artist Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne—which focuses on the Central Desert food source Arnwekety (bush plum)—the influence and love of her Country and culture is palpable. Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana is now showing at Niagara Galleries.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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The space between real and unreal

Now showing at RMIT Gallery, This Hideous Replica is a holistic experimental art undertaking, co-curated by Sean Dockray and Joel Stern, which encompasses an exhibition, performance programs, publishing and much else.

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Cement Fondu

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Suggested Reading

The rhythm of creating

Sally Gearon

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Michael Sun

Scaling new heights

Michelle Wang

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

Jane O'Sullivan

Elizabeth Mbitjana Pitijana and inherited influence

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

The space between real and unreal

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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