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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Alex Gawronski, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley win 2018 NAVA Fellowships

Sydney multimedia artist Alex Gawronski and Melbourne-based conceptual art duo Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley have been awarded the 2018 fellowships by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

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Vale Mirka Mora

The Melbourne-based artist Mirka Mora has died at the age of 90. “Mirka was a central figure in the story of Heide, and in Melbourne’s cultural life,” says Lesley Harding, artistic director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, where Mora’s next exhibition, Pas de Deux – Drawings and Dolls, had already been scheduled to open in October.

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Tangle of Memories

Chiharu Shiota returns, interlacing thread to form a phenomenal room-sized installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Centre for Contemporary Photography appoints Adam Harding as new director

The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne has appointed Adam Harding as its new director. Community engagement and artists having a voice are two CCP strengths Harding is keen to continue.

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Artslog aims to expose exploitation of arts workers

As part of a new exhibition, State of the Union, which explores partnerships between trade unions and arts workers, a group of Melbourne artists has launched a project to expose exploitation in the arts in Australia.

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State of the Art

GAG Projects presents four compelling artists in this year’s South Australian Living Artists Festival.

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Amala Groom asks Does she know the Revolution is coming?

Wiradjuri artist Amala Groom spent five years advocating for First Peoples’ rights and freedoms at the United Nations in New York and Geneva.

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Jason Phu talks about The Burrangong Affray in 1860 and other racist riots

The 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art teamed Sydney-born artist Jason Phu with Hong Kong-born artist John Young Zerunge to take a fresh look at the 19th century riots on Australia’s goldfields, where resentment at Chinese miners boiled over.

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The End is the Beginning

French artists Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni speculate on the future of us, and the solar system, in a two part special at Mona.

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With Seeing Hands

The exhibition With Seeing Hands features contributions from seven mostly Melbourne-based artists, some of whom identify as having sensory or mobility disabilities.

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Mami Kataoka: Superposition

At the helm of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, artistic director Mami Kataoka dives into the archives, calls on her ‘brother’ and puts art activism into perspective.

Interview

Ian Howard makes art not war

Like many artists of his generation, Ian Howard was politicised during the Vietnam War. But to call his art anti-war is too simplistic, as Steve Dow discovers speaking to Howard while the artist prepares his latest exhibition.

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Steve Dow

Writer

Steve Dow's Articles

Alex Gawronski, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley win 2018 NAVA Fellowships

Vale Mirka Mora

Tangle of Memories

Centre for Contemporary Photography appoints Adam Harding as new director

Artslog aims to expose exploitation of arts workers

State of the Art

Amala Groom asks Does she know the Revolution is coming?

Jason Phu talks about The Burrangong Affray in 1860 and other racist riots

The End is the Beginning

With Seeing Hands

Mami Kataoka: Superposition

Ian Howard makes art not war

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