John Kelly surveys the wash up of the Australia exhibition and finds, contrary to critical and popular opinion, the show is an unfortunately accurate history of Australian art…
Joel Rea describes himself as a Contemporary Surrealist Painter, but his work is also a twist on the aesthetics of the sublime in 18th century Romantic art.
Mutu’s art “marries poetic symbolism with sociopolitical critique to explore issues of gender, race, war, colonialism, and, particularly, the exoticization of the black female body…”
Todd Macmillan‘s work has long quoted Romantic painters and poets, but how does that actually work in the context of video and photography? And what does McMillan himself bring to the mix? Isobel Philip has an idea…