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Darwin has a strong cultural heartbeat. Its beginnings can be traced to creatives who have come and gone and to many who remain, their influence shaping our perceptions and narratives about place. There is a thirst for visual representation from artists that habituate in this place. One of these artists consummating our desire for iconography
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Jo Caust is Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne Labor launched its arts policy in Melbourne on Saturday. The new policy document is called “Renewing Creative Australia”, paying homage to Labor’s two previous cultural policy documents; “Creative Nation” in 1994 and “Creative Australia” in 2013. The policy includes a commitment to restore funding
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How do the major political parties understand Australia’s culture and what vision do they offer for our future asks Esther Anatolitis, the executive director of the National Association for the Visual Arts. We’ve got Labor who’ve launched a comprehensive policy after extensive consultation; the Greens, who’ve released a considered policy without a launch nor consultation;
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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery: Rosie Weiss Part of the sprawling Climarte Festival, ‘In the Valley’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is a group show of art made around the environs of the peninsula over a long period. Most interesting among the paintings and photographs is a whole gallery given over to local artist Rosie Weiss. A
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It was mid-February in Athens and cold and sunny as we sat on the balcony of an apartment sipping cloudy ouzo and eating salty olives. Vallejo Gantner and I did this almost every afternoon to celebrate another day’s end of Athens Burns Bright; Creative Ecology Tour. “Mate, I signed the contract, it’s real, it’s happening,” Gantner said, breathing out a big
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Last night’s Federal Budget once again showed the LNP ’s adhoc and grudging tolerance of the arts. The organisation representing the major performing arts companies, AMPAG, is one of nine arts sector bodies that has created an infographic showing national participation in the arts and how its economic impact contributes $4.2 billion to Australia’s GDP. According to AMPAG (it represents the 28 major performing arts companies lucky
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Last night’s federal budget documents offered stark insights into our nation’s culture by setting out Australia’s political priorities in financial terms. In the absence of a written policy, how do these political decisions reveal the unwritten values that frame our cultural life? asks arts industry advocate Esther Anatolitis. Surprisingly, identifying those values is much easier than
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The fourth art auction fundraiser for the Australian Prostate Centre (APC) has raised a record $216,000. More than 120 people gathered at Gibson’s Auctions in Melbourne late last month to watch work by 30 sought-after Australians artists go under the hammer for the New Directions 2019 auction. Brisk bidding among collectors ensured that almost 95
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Edmund Capon AM OBE, a beloved figure in the Australian arts community, has died of cancer in his native England. He was 78. Capon is best remembered for his contributions to the Art Gallery of NSW, where he served as director from 1978 to 2011. During his 33-year tenure, the notoriously ebullient Capon ushered in a slew of
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Derived from a single image of a lion devouring a zebra, Moya McKenna’s suite of six paintings is an exploration of struggle and evocations of fierce, troubled states. As any analyst would say, the artist is both lion and zebra. The work drinks deep from the well of art culture. One might point to the
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