Category: Interviews
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Art Guide Australia | Interview: Mikala Dwyer on mysticism, daydreaming and ‘not-knowing’
Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a range influences and curiosities including the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory and sexuality. Often using materials like textiles, plastic, plywood and plants, the artist creates highly experiential, affective spaces. With a four-decade practice, and a new exhibition on avian life, Dwyer talks about the mystical, daydreaming,…
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Art Guide Australia | Interview: Matthew Harris on camp, class and culture
From repetitions of flowers to grim reapers riding unicorns to cartoon devils gleefully inflicting pain on their enemies, the paintings of Matthew Harris hang between amusing and provoking; the cute and the uncanny; the absurd and the vulgar. Painted in a flattened yet buoyant style, Harris’s work finds easy company in camp aesthetics – yet…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Patricia Piccinini’s curious affection
Well-known for her hybrid creatures that shift between the beautiful and the grotesque, in this conversation Patricia Piccinini discusses questions of empathy, genetics and realism, and how we understand the concept of nature. The artist also discusses her exhibition at QAGOMA, ‘Curious Affection’. Listen above, or listen via Art Guide Australia and read the full article.…
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4ZZZ FM | Radio Interview: Brodie Lancaster
Filmme Fatales is a quarterly zine about film, feminism and the places where the two intersect. Started over 2 years ago by Brodie Lancaster, Filmme Fatales covers everything from articles discussing trite female character archetypes to poems about Lena Dunham – all with a great sense of humour and insightful voices. Most importantly, the zine…
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4ZZZ FM | Radio Interview: Sian Campbell
Sian Campbell is the memoir editor of online literary journal, Scum Mag. Starting in February 2013, Scum Mag brings together a collection of fiction, memoir, poetry and rants from a bunch of mainly Australian writers. With articles like ‘How to call fellow men out on misogyny’ and teary and hilarious memoirs, as well as substantiative…
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