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Exhibition Essay | Emily Ferretti: Something about trees
There is something primal and life-affirming, yet hauntingly nostalgic and bygone, about trees. They are one of the first worldly objects that children learn to put down in pictorial form; drawings which, constructed by wobbly hands, are images of magical thinking, of bony lines with curves akin to clouds. In his deceivingly simple way, John…
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Difficult Fun | Sarah Mary Chadwick: The Case for Melancholia
[Kim] Sometimes people walk out of Sarah Mary Chadwick’s shows because they deem them too depressing. There is something in Chadwick’s sparse piano playing and the languor of her voice that makes her songs sound sad even when maybe she isn’t, at least, not entirely. In her lyrics, Chadwick encounters the big, yawning tragedies of…
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City of Melbourne | Creative Responses to City of Melbourne Collection
This piece was commissioned by City of Melbourne as a creative response to their public collection. Find the original here. Mistaking giant purses for clams are the kinds of absurd confusions that public art (perhaps any art, really) can lead us toward. It’s reassuring however that I’m not the only one. After some online investigation…
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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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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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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 their (non)narrative around various ontological instabilities. Characters fail to distinguish fantasy from reality, or are kept from the knowledge of reality and, by implication, the knowledge of themselves. Think Vanilla Sky, Mulholland Drive, Memento, Synecdoche New York, The Bourne series, The Wolverine, Brazil, Eternal…
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