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Sharne Wolff makes amends for Xmas-past and discovers Pamela See’s paper cuts…
Proliferation fills the gallery space with hundreds of feathers so the room appears to be bursting at the seams as hidden stuffing spews forth, feathers trail down the walls and explode out of the cracks between floorboards…
In Cappuccino Wilderness Safari, I seek to investigate how the twin-concerns of celebrity and status are expressed through bourgeois tendencies to “life-stylise”. By utilising the encoded aesthetics of suburbia – specifically those of the new-urban ‘gated community’ and the ubiquitous chain ‘coffee-house’ – I attempt to construct a fictionalised narrative of “the wild”.
Ian Shadwell continues his stroll down through Martin Place and into the precincts around Australia Square – the wealth of first rate art prompts our flâneur to exclaim “Thank you, Mr. Seidler!”
The mysteriously-monikered MMacNeill discovers a delightful exhibition of sculptural miniatures that imply much bigger things…
Gregory Godhard’s background in animation and film is made self-evident, as he playfully remixes art and film references into carefully considered and subtly deranged mis-en-scenes…
There’s a lot of weird stuff in Hyde Park – and some of its art. In part four of his walking tour of Sydney’s hidden art, Ian Shadwell comes face to face with some imposing stone figures…
Scott Musgrove’s style of figural surrealism carries themes of environmental issues and endangered wildlife concerns with unique humor, depicting anomalous extinct (and fictitious) animal species.
At the Institute of Modern Art, a new show by Scott Redford and Michael Zavros attempts to fool the foolish – or so claims Andrew Frost.
Ian Shadwell gazes upon one of Sydney’s most iconic – but equally maligned – pieces of public art and finds within its shiny surfaces something to love…