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By Ben Neutze
It’s impossible for the vast majority of us to begin to understand the experiences of the young ‘children at risk’ who were held at the Parramatta Girls Home up until the early 1980s. Many of those girls were subjected to horrific punishments and sexual abuse during their time living at the facility, which was in operation as a girls
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By Daily Review
There’s one month left of Brave New World: Australia 1930s at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Square space. The exhibition brings together commercial art, architecture, fashion, industrial design, film and dance to present a complete picture of this dynamic time. See how the exhibition was built in this “making of” video.
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Melbourne artist Gareth Sansom (b.1939) has been producing his wild and luridly coloured collages and watercolours for 60 years based, curators say, on a “personal iconography that includes imagery of a sexual, satirical and philosophical nature”. A retrospective of 130 works opens at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne this week titled Gareth Sansom Transformer. Ashley Crawford
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There are artists who explore concepts, hint at ideas, privilege ways of seeing, delve, conjure, reveal, dialogue and, of course, play… lots of play. Read artist statements or critics’ reviews, and it can seem like art is a game stacked against the viewer. There’s plenty of playfulness in what Paul Turbitt creates, but it doesn’t
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By Helen Razer
It is upon the authority of a cultivated adult that I recommend NGV Melbourne show Brave New World to other cultivated adults. It contains, says my buff, some dark curatorial surprises from Australian art of the 1930s. These are brought to light by inclusion of the era’s stars, including a sunny Cossington Smith and some
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When you go out there, you don’t get away from it all. You get back to it all. You come home to what’s important. You come home to yourself – Peter Dombrovskis The singular talent of photographer Peter Dombrovskis was to give us a picture of ourselves we did not know had been taken. It was, in
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Looking into a tiger’s eyes is an unforgettable experience. They are beautiful, of course – the piercing black and blazing gold, “burning bright” as William Blake so perfectly put it centuries ago. Those wide eyes look straight into your centre, making you feel as though the jungle cat is summing you up, learning your secrets
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There was a time long before the internet when we could only dimly imagine what other parts of the world must look like. Thanks to Jacqui Kenny, a woman who has turned her anxiety about leaving home into a powerful creative force, anyone can appreciate far flung places visually in a meaningful way without going
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By Daily Review
Pioneers of Japanese pop rock Shonen Knife, Los Angeles-based electro-R&B musician Nite Jewel and multi-platinum Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke will headline the spring season of NGV Friday Nights. The season culminates in a special Saturday night performance by Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble (UK/France), the most recent collaboration led by Sadier, a founding member of Stereolab.
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By Daily Review
The 11th annual Sydney Architecture Festival to be held September 29 to October 2 has revealed its program for the long weekend event, which this year includes a focus on the city’s west. On Saturday, September 30 visitors can enter Australia’s newest Mosque in the suburb of Punchbowl designed by Sydney architect Angelo Candalepas. The Mosque is
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