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Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
A Curve is a Broken Line is shaped by testimonials of Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar, and installed and curated by Isobel Parker Philip at the Art Gallery of NSW. In this hybrid multifaceted...
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Brett M. Levine’s Curatorial Intervention: History and Current Practices
Exhibitions of contemporary art are often slick, and in polished spaces, apparently emptied of elements save for the artworks we have come to see. A painting hung here, a sculpture placed there – or...
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Naomi Hobson
A Great-Grandchild caressing the hands of her Great-Grandmother, reveals a life journey of profound strength and resistance to the cruelty and burden of colonial history, a burden carried by...
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Will The Museum Please Move Out Of The Way?
If the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition A Line A Web A World is anything to go by, drawing is a domain to which we still look for connection with the long continuum of human ingenuity. “Drawings” the...
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Anselm
Wenders has taken remarkable care in realising this artistic epic. I watched it in 3D glasses at the Sydney Film Festival premiere, the whole time wondering if these were really necessary. As in most...
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Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World
To reflect appropriately on Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World I will apply the disciplines of Eastern Christian Theology, the dual modes of cataphatic (positive) and apophatic...
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VVitches oV KyiV
Our apartment, provided by the Peabody Essex Museum, where the film was screening, is right around the corner from the infamous Old Burying Point Cemetery, also known as the Charter Street Cemetery,...
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Breathtaking Possibilities
I have spent more than three decades working with artists and communities both in and outside gallery contexts. I find this work profoundly invigorating and relevant. However, I have seen so many...
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Markela Panegyres: The Performance Prism
For each artwork, she constructs fictitious personas, notable for their uncanny artifice. It’s by means of these ambiguous characters and their uneasy actions, that Panegyres works through themes of...
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Writing Class
The poet presents himself as a dichotomy. Whatever is apparent becomes obscured, and all the luscious facts wither into hard statistics. Born here, did that, intended something else but I forget what....
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Armando Chant
Media and techniques juxtapose the technological/visual in terms of photography and the material/tactile in textile techniques. The dynamic relationship and binary tensions resulting from combining...
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Artist on Artist: Emma Walker on Kat Shapiro Wood
What kinds of problems and what kinds of meanings happen in paint? What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting? . . . This is where alchemy can help because it is the most...
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John R Walker
This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney, the gallery that has represented...
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Blue Poles and Doors of Perception
I have read a couple of biographies of Pollock and the man disgusts me. I have a huge collection of art books but never felt the desire to buy one with reproductions of Pollock’s paintings. He was...
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Vale Jim Cobb
Jim’s commitment to the arts extended far beyond the walls of his paint manufacturing business. He recognized the struggles and challenges faced by aspiring artists, and he made it his mission to...
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Kirtika Kain
Kain migrated with her family from India to Australia in 1993, and during her childhood was shielded from the weight of the Indian caste system. Caste structures form the backbone of the Indian...
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Sabio and Her Theatre of the Absurd
“The greatest darkness can often be concealed by an astonishing colour palette of pinks, reds and gold.” – Sabio. Sabio grew up in Railton in the north-west of Tasmania. The seventh of eight children,...
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Jasper Knight: Dusk to Dawn
“Surface. It doesn’t matter what you paint, your works are about surface.” In his Darlinghurst studio, surrounded by two decades of his work, Knight reflects on this observation, made by Ian Grant,...
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John Meade
“I’ve only realised this within the past decade or so,” he continues, “but looking back, that’s really what it’s been the whole time.” Meade intuitively follows his gut to make sculptures with uncanny...
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Brett Graham
Such ignorance was symptomatic and systemic. In the introduction to his 2019 book The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga O Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley writes: “The wars loom large in the national...
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