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Clinton Nain’s work deals with one of the most fundamental aspects of making art – a heightened appreciation and understanding of materials. People forget that making art is about the very stuff that actually makes it and an appreciation for
“[Ricky Swallow] is essentially self-taught – “I had to start at ground zero” – but he received valuable assistance in the early stages from a couple of experienced woodworkers and a book called How to Carve Realistic Birds“. – Sebastian
The world outside Sydney is a fiction. It’s what people who live in Sydney like to invoke when they’re talking about people other than themselves. At Nell’s show Happy Ending at Roslyn Oxley Gallery there are a series of works
We have of late been suffering from acute phonotony, that debilitating ennui brought on by too much photography. Although we had promised to review the Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW we just
Avalon is an apartment building in Brisbane on the corner of Harcourt and Brunswick Streets on the border between New Farm and Fortitude Valley. Built in 1929, the building has 26 apartments that are listed by letters instead of numbers,
Our discussion of artists making movies and artists as the subject of movies [see below] prompted some readers to remind of us of two Australian artists who have directed feature films; Tracey Moffatt’s Bedeviled and Philip Brophy’s Bodymelt. Although these
From Phatspace: International Ate: Phatspace International Video Exhibition In conjunction with Phatspace’s ongoing new media projects; Ate and the Phatspace Video Library, we are excited to announce our first International Video Art Juried Show. We are seeking to exhibit a
One of our favourite pastimes is watching movies that feature artists in their plots. We love the depiction of artists and their bohemian lifestyle, the making of art, the cruel art market and the discovery by artists of their own
It used to be just a question of chance. You could calculate the likelihood of the tail falling off or an encounter with clear air turbulence or a lightening strike or seagull going into an engine. It was all in
We came to Perth for the Hatched 05 show and the accompanying symposium. Our job was to look at art and deliver our paper. Perth is a fine city that was built in 1997 by a consortium led by Freedom