Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.

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Ballarat International Foto Biennale

For the 12th Ballarat International Foto Biennale artistic director Fiona Sweet has brought almost 90 of David LaChapelle’s works to Australia as the centrepiece of the 2017 program.

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Angelica Mesiti communicates via multiple senses in Relay League

For Mesiti, blending performance, dance and music is a way of exploring non-verbal communication, which can reinforce community and cultural traditions.

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NGV petitioned over contract with Wilson Security

Next week a group of artists will present a petition to the National Gallery of Victoria demanding that the gallery sever its ties with Wilson Security, a firm it accuses of “violently enforcing” the incarceration of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.

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Blood on Silk turns the spotlight on dying

For her solo show Blood on Silk: Last Seen Davies has used 800 square metres of handmade silk paper to kit-out the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre turbine hall, transforming the space into five makeshift hospital rooms.

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Tjungunutja celebrates the history of Papunya

This year NAIDOC week starts with Tjungunutja: from having come together at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

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James Brett and The Museum of Everything

James Brett, founder of The Museum of Everything, discusses the line between insider and outsider art.

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Peter Powditch

Peter Powditch is not one to do things by halves; now several shows pay dues to the mark he’s left on Australia’s psyche.

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Julie Rrap responds to Max Dupain’s Sunbaker

Steve Dow spoke to Julie Rrap as she was preparing for the show, Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker.

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ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival

How do you give average citizens a sense of the overwhelming nature of man-made global warming? Might art be an empowering alternative?

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Vale Robert Rooney 1937-2017

As a conceptual and pop artist, a photographer and a painter, as well as an idiosyncratic art critic for two broadsheet newspapers, Robert Rooney wielded influence.

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The National: New Australian Art 2017

An overview of contemporary Australian art, Sydney’s The National: New Australian Art 2017 includes crucial works by Indigenous artists, Karla Dickens and Archie Moore.

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Still innovating in his 80s: Sydney Ball (1933-2017)

Sydney Ball was a guiding hand and mentor for the gallery and its younger artists, says Strumpf. “We loved him; he was part of our family. He was always there for counsel, and he forged some beautiful friendships with some of our artists.”

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Angelica Mesiti communicates via multiple senses in Relay League

NGV petitioned over contract with Wilson Security

Blood on Silk turns the spotlight on dying

Tjungunutja celebrates the history of Papunya

James Brett and The Museum of Everything

Peter Powditch

Julie Rrap responds to Max Dupain’s Sunbaker

ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival

Vale Robert Rooney 1937-2017

The National: New Australian Art 2017

Still innovating in his 80s: Sydney Ball (1933-2017)

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