Steve Dow

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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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Necessity is the mother of invention: COVID-19 moves art online

While physical galleries all around Australia may be closed for months, the necessity of invention may yet enrich art lovers worldwide with online innovation.

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Matthew Sleeth: A Drone Opera

“Drones have become this metaphor for our fear of technology” – Matthew Sleeth

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An experimental approach to VR

Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang are redefining VR in contemporary art.

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Paul Ryan paints Joseph Banks as a dandy on a surf beach

Joseph Banks is painted in the late afternoon under moody dark clouds in a landscape better suited to board shorts and thongs.

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Vale James Mollison

“Art is more enjoyable if you look at it hard and long, than if you look at it idly and in passing.”

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Wansolwara: One Salt Water

Given the growing spectre of man-made global warming, artist Amrita Hepi says it is important to consider First Nations knowledge of land and sea.

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Connecting to Land

Responding to the history and culture of her birthplace, Taloi Havini’s evocative work draws attention to environmental and social change.

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The Island

The Island delves into Ah Kee’s hard-hitting critiques of Australia.

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Intersecting Lines

They were giants of the New York art scene of the 1980s, stratospherically popular with collectors and the public but snubbed by art institutions during their short lifetimes.

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Cementa19

Cementa19 will feature more than 40 artists making, exhibiting and performing in 20 venues across the town of Kandos, NSW, responding to its landscape, history, social, cultural and environmental context.

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Nusra Latif Qureshi wins Bulgari Art Award 2019

Critiquing the male gaze throughout art history, Qureshi questions the “absence of a female protagonist and even a point of view in major art collections,” she says. “Historically, there are not enough women’s voices in the art world.”

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The Hills Have Whys

Unidentified fossils discovered in the Flinders Ranges form the basis of an exhibition by Berlin-based artist, Mariana Castillo Deball.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Necessity is the mother of invention: COVID-19 moves art online

Matthew Sleeth: A Drone Opera

An experimental approach to VR

Paul Ryan paints Joseph Banks as a dandy on a surf beach

Vale James Mollison

Wansolwara: One Salt Water

Connecting to Land

The Island

Intersecting Lines

Cementa19

Nusra Latif Qureshi wins Bulgari Art Award 2019

The Hills Have Whys

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