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Unpredictable In Its Predictable Unpredictability
On first impression, the ARNDT Collection is a Lewis Carroll mischmasch of international twentieth century big name European trophy artists sprinkled with known Australian artists. There are some edgy stunners presented and challenging gambles on yet
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Chris Dyson A No Theory Vibe
Chris Dyson has spent the better part of fifty years producing a prolific body of work, including drawings, paintings, and sculptures. However, there is scant evidence of his legacy on the internet; a rare and refreshing phenomenon in the age of the
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Georgia Lucy A Beautiful Mess
TAFE Newcastle Art School during 2007–2008 was a magical experience for Georgia Lucy. There she was taught by the late Peter Charles Read who was the head of sculpture. He was very hands on, teaching traditional skills such as woodcarving, welding, a
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Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales, curated by Amanda Slack-Smith at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), is a remarkable exhibition, featuring over a hundred works assembled from genres including film, set design, original costumes, animation, and contemporary art. The exhib
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Danae Stratou Making The Invisible Visible
Danae Stratou was born in Athens in 1964. In the 1980s she studied sculpture at Central St. Martins College of Aand Design, London Institute. In 1997, Stratou, as part of the collaborative three woman group D.A.ST. Arteam, including industrial design
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Lincoln Austin
Lincoln Austin’s recent success in winning the Art for Life category in the Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) seems apt. The award’s focus on supporting “emerging and established artists outside the Brisbane City Council area,” and its aim to fos
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Representing Emily
Early 1989, CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) Shop, Alice Springs. The redbacks had been evicted and Rodney Gooch, the manager, had the first paintings by the Utopia Women lining the walls. A Summer Project was an experiment we
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Kandinsky
So reads a wall text at the entrance to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Kan dinsky, serving as a reminder that the artist’s aspiration towards the spiritual in painting was not solely a matter of self-realisation, but reflected a monumental ambit
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Annemieke Mein An Unwavering Vision
The Dutch-born textile artist Annemieke Mein, OAM, moved to Australia in 1951 when she was seven and developed a fascination for the native environment that she has nurtured all her life. Having excelled at art during her school days, the desire for
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Henry Jock Walker
Sauerbier House is a c.1897 villa carefully renovated into a contemporary exhibition, studio, and residency space. It is situated in Port Noarlunga, on the banks of Onkaparinga River/Ngangkiparinga, 40 km south of Adelaide. A significant Kaurna cultu
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Ngv Triennial 2023
The National Gallery of Victoria proclaims its third “blockbuster” Triennial to be a “powerful and moving snapshot of the world today through the work of 120 artists, designers and collectives at the forefront of global contemporary practice” from ro
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Zac Langdon-pole
This description makes Zac Langdon-Pole’s practice sound playful, based in small acts of curious deployment of things, ideas, and words—the tangible and intangible, perceptible and imagined. And there is an element of play as it might be understood a
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Ann Thomson ABSTRACT PAINTER
Ann Thomson celebrated her ninetieth birthday in October 2023. Born in Queensland in 1933, the daughter of a prominent Brisbane bookseller, she was genteelly brought up but was given plenty of leeway to express her natural physical exuberance. At her
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Jónsi Hrafntinna (obsidian), And Jean-luc Moulène And Teams
Jónsi’s Hrafntinna (Obsidian) and Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams are two of Mona’s three showcase temporary exhibitions. While Jónsi’s installation arouses an emotional and even transcendental response in his evocation of Iceland’s natural environment, J
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Ivan Sen
When I was researching the film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002, which tells the story of three “halfcaste” girls taken from Jigalong in Western Australia in 1931, a friend of mine, an anthropologist, said to me, “Things are worse now.” I’m afraid he may w
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Ken Whisson Painting & Drawing
Whisson was born in Lilydale, Victoria in 1927 and died in 2022 in Sydney. Finding formal training uninspiring he enrolled in an experimental school at Koornong, Victoria in 1945. He came under the formative influence of the untrained Russian immigra
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Leah Fraser The Subconscious
For as long as she can remember Leah Fraser has been fascinated by mythology, folklore, and legends from cultures around the world and the unexplained connections between them—a self-proclaimed “history nerd.” Drawing inspiration from characters of a
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Intimate Resistance
Judith Blackall (JB): Mike, 2023 has been a great year for you, with two large-scale exhibition projects curated by Eugenio Viola focusing on more than fifty years of your performance work. How did this come about? Mike Parr (MP): I met Eugenio Viola
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Spencer Calveley
Spencer Calveley lives and works in the central west of New South Wales. Working across painting and drawing he creates otherworldly scenes from his reflections on life. Deeply intuitive and expressive, his work is entwined with the natural world aro
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Louise Bourgeois Has The Day Invaded The Night Or Has The Night Invaded The Day?
Hovering, nine metres above me on wiry legs of steely elegance Maman, 1999, Louise Bourgeois’ celebrated spider sculpture, a metaphor for her mother, greets me as I arrive at the AGNSW forecourt. Momentarily, Maman pulls me into a play of scale, a fr
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Hoda Afshar Concealed Body, Concealed Land
Stephanie Berlangieri (SB): Last year was a significant one for your practice. You were included in the Sharjah, TarraWarra, and The National biennials. You also presented your first mid-career survey, A Curve is a Broken Line, at the Art Gallery of
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Editor’s Note
History and context are the underlying themes of this thought-provoking issue of Artist Profile. There is an urgency by makers and presenters to provide more nuanced understandings of so many local and global issues. The alternate views offered impre
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Mike Parr Blind Obedience
The inscription could not have come as a surprise: Parr has long worked with language in a way that is pointed and political. An editioned print from the 1990s, titled Blind Obedience, was made by opening the thesaurus and looking up the word “Synony
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Feeling Groovy
It seems fitting that the big, BIG book of Roslyn and Tony Oxley and their epic gallery bears the metallic sheen of a purple dinner jacket as worn by Prince. Purple is a rare hue in nature and the most powerful wavelength of the rainbow. It’s also ro
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Heaven (jaise Swarg)
I am male. My male Indian partner touches dance anklets decorated with red beads as soon ashe rises in the morning Is heaven red? Then orange flowers …Is heaven orange? He may thentap a yellow silk fabric. Green leaves await him next Is heaven yellow
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Contributors
DR. BRONWYN BAILEY-CHARTERIS is an Australian and Swedish curator, writer and lecturer, living on the Ngurra (Country) of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples STEPHANIE BERLANGIERI is a curator and writer living on Wangal land. She is Adjunct Curator a
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The Eel, The Horse, And The Eucalypt: A Suite Of Powerful Solos Transform Casula Powerhouse
First opening its doors as an arts centre in the mid 1990s, the former electricity production plant that is now known as Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, is a hub for artistic gatherings, performances, and exhibitions in the Liverpool region of Greater
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Jordan Wolfson Body Sculpture
Jordan Wolfson first came to the attention of the hermetically sealed New York art world with his work Real Violence, which was shown as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2017. This is an intentionally provocative two-and-a-half-minute video viewed wea
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