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Welcome our newest contributor Tristian Koenig as he joins TEAM Art Life as our roving editor-at-large with this review of James Lynch’s latest show at Uplands Gallery…

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Rock time

Rock time

Art Life , Reviews Nov 22, 2010

Isobel Philip feels the push and pull of the sumptuous depths of Kate Shaw’s paintings…

Meet me at arms length

Sharne Wolff encounters the warmth, humour and the little bit of scary in Julie Fragar’s Brisbane commercial gallery debut…

New Work Friday #68

Dream Job by David M Thomas is a poignant and pretty funny confessional ‘stage set’, sometimes slightly awkward, and ultimately an incomplete view of the artist.

High Reflections #14

Dolphins into the future!

Why do photography critics hate photography?

Susan Sontag and her postmodern heirs in the realm of photography criticism were very removed from, even hostile to, the subjects they discuss…

No Demand

No Demand

News Nov 17, 2010

Far right says no to Thomas Demand…

No Artist Is An Island

No Artist Is An Island is the result of a four month, long distance dialogue held between three emerging artists – Liam Benson, Lucas Grogan and Belinda Howden…

The Social Network

Have you noticed that it’s not just people who sell ‘handmade’ soap at markets complaining that our culture has become too high-tech, too overloaded with meaningless information, too much about voyeurism and instant gratification, too lacking in real human connection?

New Work Friday #67

It looks like a room within a room, like architecture. It has walls and doorways and a roof. You can walk within and throughout it. But it has no real structural integrity. It is only cardboard, paint and yarn.