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On the impact of globalisation on Chinese art and culture, consumerism and cultural exchange…
![Steve Warburton: history, ambiguity, monuments](http://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/58033077_2294711210551993_7534200865792458752_n-555x375.jpg)
In advance of his new solo show at Melbourne’s Tacit gallery, Steve Warburton talks about ambiguity, metaphor and history…
![Long live the new flesh: Lisa McCleary’s sci-fi surfaces](http://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/thumbnail_Naofa_Sacred_2018_22.5-x-13_oil-on-aluminum-555x375.jpg)
Lisa McCleary discusses her upcoming solos show at Gallery MC, eroticism, surfaces, sci-fi and insane amounts of hard work…
![Simon Sellars’ Applied Ballardianism: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”](http://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/36610919_288659191883082_6386709295064416256_n-555x375.jpg)
“I always think of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when he’s ambushed by a man who talks so much he doesn’t realise Tuco has whipped his gun out. Tuco kills him, then gives the corpse some excellent advice: ‘When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.’ Likewise, with academics: when you have to argue, argue. Don’t blather on.”
![Interview: Ian Haig’s ‘Foaming Node’](http://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/9d59d7_57df57975b0d4c8783b38728eeff3d54mv2-555x375.jpg)
“The human body, technology, transformation, mutation, cannibalism, the discovery of a new human organ…”
![Transformations through time: Paul White’s iconic realities](http://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/thumbnail_3-Paul-White_Backyard-Brock_pencil-on-paper_77-x-95-cm_2017-555x375.jpg)
“My process became a meditation not only on the image but also personally; a way of dealing with, slowing down and processing the world around me.”