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![Fiona Hall for Venice 2015](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-1140x666.jpg)
Fiona Hall is the winner.
![Venice Postcard: The Vernissage is the Greatest Work of Art](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Todd fuller reports from Venice on the splendour of the Vernissage, the golden showers and the Aussie pavilion triumph…
![Warning: Porn Inside](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
“Except for Ken Yonetani’s Sweet Barrier Reef, a rather dull comment on the effects of consumerism on nature, the Australian off-site project Once Removed curated by Felicity Fenner offers a refreshing insight into the predicament of displacement. Undoubtedly part of
![Off The Rails](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
The paltry offerings from Australian art critics sojourning in Italy for the 2009 Venice Biennale have been thus far the usual predictable fare – pithy putdowns for art they have no time for, offering instead a blanket refusal to engage
![Jerry Saltz, He Say No](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
From there I saw as many of the pavilions as I could. My Worst in Show award was a three-way tie between Australia, Japan, and France. Australia’s Shaun Gladwell parked a burned-out Road Warrior–ish car outside the pavilion.
![Venice Reflux: Doctorin’ The Tardis](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
From John Kelly… Entering the TARDIS – an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space , I go walkabout within the monolith that contains The Meaning of Life. I race across time eating Mad Max’s dust as he tears