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From John Kelly… Having arrived in Australia from Europe we book our accommodation online. Wotif.com finds us in a hotel in Kent Street Sydney. As with many of Sydney’s boutique hotels the foyer is dominated by a large decorative Australian
From Carrie Miller… Too often issues of art and ethics get plugged into the broader moral panics that are endlessly swirled around by the cultural leaf blower we call the mass media – that noisy, pointless, impotent machine. While artists
Belinda Smith, Fanning The Flames, 2008. Fabriano paper, 3m x 1.5m. “Hi – I have sent you an image from my Fantales series, Art for a Black and White World, three dimensional paper cut outs of concertinaed black paper, that
From Ian Houston… Adrian Piper, Black Box/ White Box The idea of the political in art is at once inevitable and tedious. The risk of proselytizing, the banal, the tautological and the difficulties of a cynical audience familiar with many
“The above map’s original data was created from a reference photo of a real human brain which was used to build the 3d terrain. This digital elevation model was then used to create contour line data, relief shading and to
From Isobel Johnston… Things I don’t remember is the title of a song by Ugly Casanova aka Modest Mouse – who happened to be in town at around the same time as the opening of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s
From Bonny Dot Cassidy They come loitering down a runway, into Linda Marrinon’s sixth solo show Figure Sculpture II at Roslyn Oxley9 [until March 1]. Beautiful troopers that they are, it’s hard not to wish for a battalion rather than
From Isobel Johnston… January is generally regarded as a time when most galleries are closed – everyone’s on holidays and nothing much happens. The gallery year really gears up in February, when Sydneysiders all return to work. While the Sydney
They come in with requests. They want to use the photocopier for free. Some of them want blank paper to write down their filthy secrets. Most of ‘em just sleep in the reading room. Yes, it’s your local library and
Who ever said ideas had to be subtle? If you want cut through, why even bother with artistic ambiguity? Just say what you have to say and off you go. This seems to be Joan Fontecuberta’s concept for his show