Visual Arts Skeleton landscapes: Dale Cox on responding to climate change through art Karen Coombs In January this year, a suburban gallery in Ringwood, Victoria quietly exhibited a large, haunting image of a burning Australian …
News & Commentary, Visual Arts NGV to put spotlight on early 20th century French artist Anders Furze The early 20th century French artist Pierre Bonnard will be the focus of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2020 winter …
Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts Outback grotesquerie and Liss Fenwick’s ‘Grim Purpose’ Koulla Roussos In Grim Purpose, Liss Fenwick’s exhibition of photographic works recently shown at Darwin Visual Arts (DVA), the artist works with images that …
Reviews, Visual Arts Bauhaus Now! (Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne) and Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (MUP) reviewed Darren Jorgensen A new exhibition in Melbourne and a book on the Bauhaus – the German art school of the 1920s – offer a new history …
News & Commentary, Screen, Stage, Visual Arts So you think you’re a ‘creative’? Not until unless you’re fluent in ‘agency-speak’ Rosemary Sorensen Confused about what a creative industry is? It’s simple: film, TV, video games and digital culture. That’s what the Australian …
Exhibitions, News & Commentary, Visual Arts Darwin as ‘Hell Theme Park’: the art of Eileen Song Koulla Roussos I met Eileen Song a few weeks ago at Darwin’s Roma Bar to chat about her exhibition Cliffside showing at …
Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts Kevin Connor visual arts review (Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne) W H Chong This show of paintings and drawings has the fervour of an artist in their youthful prime, but Connor is 87 …
News & Commentary, Visual Arts Photographer Polixeni Papetrou: Existentialism and good underwear Joanna Murray-Smith The photographer, Polixeni Papapetrou died in April last year at age 57 after a five year illness. Her friend, writer Joanna Murray-Smith …
News & Commentary, Visual Arts Fleeting thoughts on an art work, one year after its purchase Koulla Roussos Travis Vella’s To those that were missing (2018) is a medium size oil on board, a representational work, depicting four …
Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts Rob Brown, The Plum Spanky exhibition review (Mayfair Gallery, Darwin) Koulla Roussos Darwin has a strong cultural heartbeat. Its beginnings can be traced to creatives who have come and gone and to …
