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The Lotus Eaters

What is not to like about Phatspace? What a gallery, what a feeling, what a hell of an organisation they’ve got over there! Where other galleries rest on their laurels and let business take care of itself once they’ve opened,

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Man Eats Steak and Chips Shock

We walked over to Yuill/Crowley Gallery with some trepidation. The “word on the street” was that Adam Cullen’s latest show On My Knees Looking Up was a holding pattern for the artist – nothing bad, but then again nothing new.

Is that a testicle in your beard, or are you just glad to see me?

We received an envelope last week that had a handwritten address on it featuring very attractive looped ‘T’ and ‘A’ s on the words ‘The Art Life and we were impressed by the sender’s penmanship. Normally, enevelopes fron the Art

Mean Streets

Mean Streets

Art Life , Reviews Apr 28, 2004

The streets of Paddington in the morning present a very different kind of reality to the one presented by the well-heeled suburb’s reputation. Oxford Street is cold and unfriendly and you wonder why you left your warm bed for bad

Butterfly Aieeee!

We walked down Elizabeth Street to Blender Gallery . Previously the location of Stills Gallery in the 80s and 90s, the former terrace house is now home to a gallery that has a ‘strong commitment’ to new and emerging talent.

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Reviews Apr 28, 2004

Don’t ask the woman on the desk at the Australian Centre for Photography any questions. Don’t ask her, for instance, how the UNSW College of Fine Arts has become involved in the exhibition of Franco Zecchin, or in fact, what

We Get Sort of Mixed Up

We try to apply an even level of ignorance to everything we see. It’s like being consistent but it doesn’t demand as much effort. We had gone last week to see Dani Marti’s show at Sherman Galleries but we’d missed

“Isn’t It Ironic…?”

Relationships are somewhat strained in Paddington. The University Of NSW College Of Fine Arts (motto “The Biggest Little Campus In The World!”) has been battling local residents to develop part of its Selwyn Street campus into what activists are describing

“It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife”

Not a lot of people know that the Ivan Dougherty Gallery is named after the man who invented the semi colon in exhibition titles. It’s that kind of gallery – the exhibitions are curated to the extent that some art

“It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid”

A couple of weeks back we gave Dominique Angeloro a hard time for rewriting press releases in the guise of journalism in the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Metro lift out. Sure, people like Victoria Hynes and Bruce James