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more: Things of stone and rock: A field trip through contemporary art

Things of stone and rock: A field trip through contemporary art

In 1968 Robert Smithson took mineral samples, often rocks, from seemingly irrelevant locations. He laid them in fabricated steel containers that reiterated their original location and exhibited them in a gallery along with related documentation such as...
more: Trapping time: Tacita Dean in conversation with Sarah Tutton

Trapping time: Tacita Dean in conversation with Sarah Tutton

... Best known for her 16-millimetre films relating to maritime adventurer Donald Crowhurst, or her work with American choreographer Merce Cunningham or W. G. Sebald's translator Michael Hamburger - while also employing the mediums of photography,...
more: Krapp's bugle: John Barbour and the art of the impossible

Krapp's bugle: John Barbour and the art of the impossible

... Barbour's work, teased from throwaway materials without apparent disguise, sublimation or attempted transcendence, is the product of Krapp-type tinkering in a dusty studio in the desert province of Adelaide. The resultant works possess an ecological...
more: Benjamin Armstrong's world of holding everything dear

Benjamin Armstrong's world of holding everything dear

The year is like a year a thousand years ago,We know nothing,We know nothing about the end ... These are the opening lines of Bernhard Thomas's poem 'Under the Iron of the Moon', and strangely by coincidence, or simply responding to feelings of anxiety in our...
more: Hany Armanious: Compulsive beauty

Hany Armanious: Compulsive beauty

The art of Hany Armanious is one based on appearance, where semblance can assume any shape or form. Deceptive by nature, the work is masked by its own 'image'. In such a spirit of play, it is neither interesting nor helpful to cite this particular work or...
more: Diena Georgetti: Pleasure and comfort

Diena Georgetti: Pleasure and comfort

The pleasures of the city are many. In New York the buildings and bridges are so high that the experience is magnified ... In the middle of this sensory overload, one can become very intimate with the comfort afforded by colour and form. The infinite range of...
more: Cool runnings: A short history of Auckland ARIs

Cool runnings: A short history of Auckland ARIs

It's tempting to align the flourishing of artist-run initiatives (ARIs) in Auckland with the city's concurrent growth in tertiary institutions offering degrees in visual art. When I went to art school, the Elam School of Fine Arts was really the only...
more: Letter from Wombat Studio

Letter from Wombat Studio

It is a clear July night and another blizzard is due. Days, nights and months have become fuzzy down here. After more than twenty-five years of constant travel, it is perhaps not surprising that I type this in a scruffy wood and metal hut called Wombat Studio...
more: Domesticating art: The hybridised form of Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum

Domesticating art: The hybridised form of Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum

Mentored by Georges Mora to collect the works of his peers, Melbourne architect Corbett Lyon has, over the past two decades, assembled one of Australia's most coherent and considered private bodies of contemporary art. In 2000, inspired by the great house...
more: Tribute: Nick Waterlow 1941-2009

Tribute: Nick Waterlow 1941-2009

Among the heartfelt eulogies, formal and informal, written and oral, for Nick Waterlow, there was a constant reminder of something that we will all greatly miss: that rich, resonant and engaging laugh of his. He would throw back his head and guffaw with...
more: The Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award: Looking back to the future

The Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award: Looking back to the future

In art one finds an ongoing dialogue between the established and the upcoming, between the artistic canon and the underground, with energy and influence flowing both ways. Throughout its forty-six-year history, the front cover of Art & Australia has often...
more: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art &Australia Emerging Writers Program

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art &Australia Emerging Writers Program

Len Lye laid the foundation for the history of the moving image. In his easy transition between disparate forms of media - spanning film, photography, poetry, sculpture and painting - his work embodied the term 'multimedia'. His versatility was that of an...
more: Matt Coyle: The Shades - 7 & 8

Matt Coyle: The Shades - 7 & 8

In the final of a four-part Art & Australia special commission, the Hobart-based artist and author of the graphic novel Worry Doll (2007) continues his shady new narrative.'When I finished Worry Doll I decided to do a series of stand-alone drawings which...
more: Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award: Peter Madden

Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award: Peter Madden

Tenderly lifted from the pages of National Geographic, thumbed encyclopaedias and found photographs, old images find new life in the airborne works of Peter Madden. The artist has a consuming passion for visual recycling, dedicatedly pilfering second-hand...
 
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