Category: Arts Writing
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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 now sits in ruins, overgrown with foliage. Yet there is also creation; it’s the site that artist Simryn Gill, who looks at the relation between history, place and experience, has been working from. Producing photographs
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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 supposedly doesn’t happen on the internet. The reasons seem transparent; for some it’s a kind of moralism, the belief that aesthetic transaction happens in the flesh, not the digital, or that something vital is lost
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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 and torchlight. Painted by Emily Ferretti, the picture partly recalls the stairs and their iron railings leading towards friends’ flats. Ferretti also draws on found images and her imagination in the captured moments of her show
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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 demands of artistic commitment and recent motherhood, the artist has felt the career struggles of working from a remote community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Yet Adamson’s paintings are now heading to Sydney as
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Memo Review | Loyalty Does Not End With Death – Genesis P-Orridge at The Substation
Over the last five decades English artist, musician and poet Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has become the kind of person that others seek out. For some it might have been during the early 1970s when P-Orridge, and h/er involvement with performance art collective COUM Transmissions, was gathering attention for making use of soiled tampons, blood and
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Art Guide Australia | Intrepid Women Travelling to Paris
In 1899 artist Mary Cockburn Mercer ran away from her Melbourne home to Paris. She was 17 years old. After living what we might call the ‘bohemian artistic life’ Mercer went on to become a respected (and somewhat elusive) Australian painter. This particular story is only one of many being told in Intrepid Women: Australian women artists in
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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 a leading figure in conceptual art since the 1960s, Kosuth’s bold neon statements, self-referential signs and minimalist installations are fuelled by his thoughts and philosophical underpinnings. Anna Schwartz is presenting a range of Kosuth’s text
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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 accounts of the painter’s life and art. Now a new documentary, simply titled Whiteley, is reconsidering the artist’s life beyond his rock star persona. By using previously unseen archival footage and interviews, alongside unpublished correspondence, Whiteley tells the
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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 work’, I said. ‘Normally there are big windows along one half of West Space gallery, but Heidi has built a room that covers these windows, with only a small square of light peeking out —
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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 that aims to support and articulate the value of artist-run and experimental organisations. With an ongoing commitment to innovation and experimentation in the arts, All Conference exists as a fluid network that engages in research, publishing, advocacy,
Tiarney Miekus 