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It seems incredible now but it was only in 1973 that The Hon. Gough Whitlam led the first diplomatic visit to China by an Australian Prime Minister.
The hero image of the show, and the picture on the gallery invitation, is Hicks’s Venus: a shell held up against a face that we can now only imagine.
Just what is it about the concept of the sublime that has made such a forceful comeback in recent years?
“We were pushing at the edges of modernism to see what happened. That’s what we thought it was ?all about.”
Sandra Selig’s practice covers a diverse range of media linked by an abiding interest in science and the subtleties of the physical world.
It may be difficult for the viewer, but at least it’s sincere.
It’s curious the way art and sport are often considered to lie at either end of a spectrum. In fact, the two forms of entertainment, if you want to call them that, have a lot more in common than not.
Chang methodically hand cuts each piece of white paper with a grid, scalpel and ruler – a time-consuming process requiring unbounded patience.
Henson’s work, so publicly overexposed in recent years for all the wrong reasons, maintains its high art aloofness, and that is it essential attraction: to enter the work is a singular experience.
There’s a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain.