Since art can be a mediating force for how a person can understand themselves and their life, and since life … More
Category: Arts Writing
Art Guide Australia | Brook Andrew on biennales, the art world and new ways of seeing
As artistic director of NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, artist Brook Andrew is bringing together over 90 artists, creatives, collectives … More
Art Guide Australia | Review: Bauhaus Now!
In 2019 galleries and museums across the world are celebrating 100 years of the Bauhaus, the modernist German art, design … More
Meanjin | Is Art Pop? On Darren Sylvester’s Promises
In the 1997 film The Castle, the obvious-talking young narrator named Dale Kerrigan has a totalising faith in the promise of shared, … More
Art Guide Australia | TarraWarra International 2019: The Tangible Trace
An abandoned seaside motel stands in Port Dickson, Malaysia. After being sold to foreign speculative buyers in the 1980s, it … More
Art Guide Australia | Review: Craftivism
During the 2017 Women’s Marches in America – the anti-Trump protests that railed against a ‘pussy-grabbing’ president – millions of … More
Memo Review | Ella Sowinska’s ’80 Ways’
Considering the amount of things that can be streamed online (i.e., entire lives), it’s peculiar how art is a thing that … More
Art Guide Australia | Emily Ferretti: Windows
It’s a nocturnal scene characterised by blues, greens and yellows. The shapes and lines accommodate each other, alluding to staircases … More
Art Guide Australia | Tom Borgas: Barriers IRL
A collection of full-scale concrete barriers, painted in Yves Klein’s trademark blue, rest in an untidy pile on a gallery … More
Art Guide Australia | APY Art Centre Collective launches Sydney gallery
Sharon Adamson, the great-granddaughter of the late Tiger Palpatja, is an emerging painter who works from Tjala Arts Centre. Juggling the dual … More