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Material Rites

The exhibition presents art that proposes an aesthetic question – how do we regard these works, and to what extent is the artist’s intervention with the materials shape our perceptions?

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Joy Before the Object

Each of the photographs in this exhibition is the result of the artist honing in on an object – a thing which remains loosely defined…

Tall Tales And True

A mixture of here and there.

Multiple Perspectives: an interview with Wenmin Li

Luise Guest meets Wenmin Li and discusses perspectives, painting and Hockney…

Not Quite Square

In May 1973 hundreds of people converged on the tiny farming town of Nimbin in the picturesque rainforest region of the north coast of NSW…

Sugar Sugar

Sugar Sugar

Art Life , Media Sep 27, 2013

From Andrew Frost… Art made with sugar would be a conservator’s nightmare, and not just because the art will decompose fairly quickly, but also because many of the works featured in Sugar Sugar look rather tempting… What sculpture? There was

Embedded: Craig Walsh

In 1946 the Pilbara region became home to Australia’s longest strike when Aboriginal farm workers left their jobs for three years until their demands for equal wages were won.

Toy Porn 3

In a red desert somewhere, and under a full moon, the old Captain and the faithful dog have come face to face with petrified visage of Tin Tin

Alvin Lucier | Music On A Long Thin Wire [Part 1]

A magnet straddles the wire at one end. Wooden bridges are inserted under the wire at both ends to which contact microphones are imbedded, routed to a stereo sound system. The microphones pick up the vibrations that the wire imparts to the bridges and are sent through the playback system.

Congratulations Luise Guest

Last Friday regular Art Life contributor Luise Guest was announced the winner of the inaugural Danks Street Award for Art Criticism…