Barnaby Smith

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Barnaby Smith is a critic, poet and musician currently living on Bundjalung country. His art criticism has appeared in Art & Australia, Runway, The Quietus and Running Dog, among others. He won the 2018 Scarlett Award from Lorne Sculpture Biennale.

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Experience the dislocation of migration in a wild VR taxi ride

For Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine the still-nascent artistic medium of virtual reality (VR) is the perfect fit for exploring themes of dislocation, disorientation, alienation and culture shock.

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Prince and the Revolution

Creating a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia, John Prince Siddon’s works dance on the edges.

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Back to Black

Gallerist Anna Schwartz has been in the game for 35 years, and in an exhibition looking back, themes of change and returns resonate.

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Tricky Walsh explores paths not taken in Flatland

Tricky Walsh’s exhibition Flatland, at Devonport Regional Gallery, is a scientifically and philosophically rigorous engagement with questions regarding reality, perception and dimensionality.

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Earwitness Theatre

The first Australian show from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, the Beirut-based, British-Lebanese sound artist and self-described ‘audio investigator’, is a complex, politicised interrogation of the possibilities and mysteries of sonic experience.

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River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin

Barnaby Smith takes an in-depth look at River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin, an exhibition focused on the continued devastation of the Murray-Darling Basin.

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Art in the Public Eye

Kaldor Public Art Projects marks a half-century of civic-minded, boundary defying art.

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Ballarat International Foto Biennale

The selection of Fiona Foley and Liu Bolin as the ‘headline’ artists for this year’s Ballarat International Foto Biennale in many ways beautifully sums up the spirit of this regional festival of photography.

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Queer abstraction in …(illegible)…

First-time curator Andrew Atchison focuses an inquiry into queer abstraction, challenging how we comprehend and view queer art.

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George Egerton-Warburton on capitalism and the politics of dogshit

“Years later I was walking down the street and I was hit by a wave of that pungent smell that explodes out the back of the garbage truck as it compacts the trash. As aromas of dogshit and grass clippings filtered through me I felt incredibly warm and got goosebumps.”

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Dan Moynihan: Mixed Emotions

Exploring the semiotics and aesthetics of a retail workplace, Mixed Emotions consists of 2,157 labels that adhere to commercially sold tins of paint, indicating the colour mix, ingredients and date and time of mixing.

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Storygraph

Through the medium of comic art, StoryGraph offers a portrait of various aspects of Australian life, from policy and governance to small communities and services.

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Barnaby Smith

Writer

Barnaby Smith's Articles

Experience the dislocation of migration in a wild VR taxi ride

Prince and the Revolution

Back to Black

Tricky Walsh explores paths not taken in Flatland

Earwitness Theatre

River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin

Art in the Public Eye

Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Queer abstraction in …(illegible)…

George Egerton-Warburton on capitalism and the politics of dogshit

Dan Moynihan: Mixed Emotions

Storygraph

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