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Venice Reflux: Doctorin’ The Tardis

From John Kelly… Entering the TARDIS – an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space , I go walkabout within the monolith that contains The Meaning of Life. I race across time eating Mad Max’s dust as he tears

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Got Wood?

Got Wood?

Exhibitions Apr 21, 2009

    * * * * Ocular Lab Inc. 31 Pearson St., West Brunswick 3055 (map ref 29 7-D) email: ocularlab@gmail.com www.ocularlabinc.com Gallery hours: Sat – Sun 1 – 5pm or by appointment: 03 9380 9184 The Oak tree known

Fiction of The Present Day

Vale JG Ballard 1930-2009   “Born in Shanghai in 1930, James Ballard came to England with his parents after the war, where he became a boarder at the Leys school in Cambridge; stepping, as he put it, “out of one

Official: Edmund’s Gotta Go

Our three recent polls have been running as a rotating poll – that is, whenever you refresh the Art Life page you get a new poll… Magic! Here are the results of democracy in action: It’s time for a new

Were You There in ’74?

Seeking… anyone who witnessed a series of performances called Day to Day by artist Aleks Danko which took place in 1974. The performances entailed Aleks Danko being gagged, blindfolded and tied to a chair while holding a stopwatch; they ended

"I see spots, some are smeared, some are not"

    “I am writing to you about an event that I thought the art life might be interested in posting about. On Saturday 28th March at the Dendy Opera Quay in Sydney, I went to see the film ‘I

Fade to Grey

Fade to Grey

Exhibitions Mar 24, 2009

* * * * Emerging curator Felix Ratcliff takes a closer look at the face in VISAGE – a significant new exhibition of contemporary painting opening at Firstdraft gallery. Exhibition opens: Wednesday 8 April 2009, 6-8pm Exhibition continues: to 25

New Work Friday #16

Deidre But-Husaim, Wenceslas, 2009. Oil on linen, 153 x 112cm. “Popular culture is both the prolific producer and voracious consumer of the beauty myth and its heroes and heroines, who provide creative fodder for Deidre But-Husaim. Her edgy painted portraits

Pesky!

Pesky!

Art Life Mar 13, 2009

    And so we prepare for the broadcast on Tuesday 17th March, 2009 of the first episode of The Art Life 2. So proud, so excited… But what goes into the making of a show? Who is behind it?

Archibald Prize 2009: Guy Maestri

Guy Maestri‘Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu   WINNER OF THE 2009 WYNNE PRIZE Lionel Bawden The amorphous ones (the vast colony of our being) The Trustees’ Watercolour Prize Graham Fransella Shore line WINNER OF THE 2009 SULMAN PRIZE Ivan Durrant ANZAC Match, M.C.G.