In 1899 artist Mary Cockburn Mercer ran away from her Melbourne home to Paris. She was 17 years old. After living what … More
Category: Arts Writing
Art Guide Australia | Joseph Kosuth: A Short History of My Thought
American artist Joseph Kosuth once said of his work, “All I make are models. The actual works of art are ideas.” As … More
Art Guide Australia | New film reveals Whiteley’s own words
The sensationalist stories surrounding Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) have long-captured Australia’s attention. Indeed tales of Whiteley’s outlandish personality often overshadow indepth … More
un Magazine | ART and art (where the first is Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the second follows from the first)
Recently, I was on the phone describing Heidi Holmes’s installation at West Space in September 2016. ‘It’s this incredibly great … More
Art Guide Australia | Fourteen ARIs join forces in All Conference
In a show of collective solidarity, 14 artist-led and cross-disciplinary organisations around Australia have gotten together to form All Conference, a platform … More
Exhibition Essay | (un)Known Realities
There are many films, whether it’s The Blockbuster or the more ‘experimentally’ inclined, that negotiate memory and fantasy by setting … More
un Magazine | The polyphony of polyphonies
Originally published by un Magazine 10.2. To throw around polyphony with an unstructured multiplicity and plurality is now a commonplace. … More
