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Review: ‘The Art of Existence’ exhibition by Les Kossatz at Heide Museum of...
Heide Museum of Modern Art has brought together nearly 100 pieces of work by the Australian artist Les Kossatz in an eclectic survey show, appropriately titled ‘The Art of Existence’. Featuring...
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Review: Rosalie Gascoigne at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
9 December 2008 – 15 March 2009 “Rosalie Gascoigne’s art comes from, is inspired by, and in turn reflects the spare countryside of the southern tablelands and the Monaro district, a unique natural...
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Review: ‘Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography’ at NGV...
Exhibition dates: 24th September 2010 – 20th March 2011 . This review took a lot of research, reading, thinking and writing, all good stuff – I hope you enjoy it! Addendum: Further to my argument below...
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Review: ‘Rosemary Laing: leak’ at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 19th March 2011 . You have just got to love these! A wonderful suite of five panoramic photographs, framed in white, inhabit the beautiful space of Tolarno Galleries,...
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Review: ‘Sidney Nolan: Drought Photographs’ at Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 27th March 2011 . “In the meantime the landscape presents scenes of desolation which mark the memory of all who see it. Thousands of carcasses are strewn on the baked and...
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Review: ‘Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV...
Exhibition dates: 4th February – 8th July 2012 Please note: This posting may contain the names or images of people who are now deceased. Some Indigenous communities may be distressed by seeing the...
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Review: ‘Jenny Reddin: The Art of Catastrophe’ at Anita Traverso Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 5th September – 29th September 2012 . “Each epoch dreams the one to follow, creates it in dreaming” . Jules Michelet . “Each epoch dreams of itself as annihilated by catastrophes” ....
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Text: Minkowski retentir / Photos: Rosemary Laing ‘groundspeed’ series
. “If, having fixed the original form in our mind’s eye, we ask ourselves how that form comes alive and fills with life, we discover a new dynamic and vital category, a new property of the universe:...
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Review: ‘As far as I know’ by Katrin Koenning and Jessie Boylan at The Colour...
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 27th July 2013 . “…the work itself – which describes various traces of industry and built history amid the expanses of rural and outback Australia – is of a much subtler...
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Review: ‘Joyce Evans: Edge of the road’ at the Monash Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 3rd October – 3rd November 2013 . At close range This exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art features the series Edge of the road by Melbourne photographer Joyce Evans. It is an...
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Three exhibitions: ‘Henri van Noordenburg / Efface’; ‘Amber McCaig / Imagined...
Exhibition dates: 6th – 23rd November 2013 . Three solid exhibitions at Edmund Pearce Gallery. All three have interesting elements and strong images. All three have their positives and negatives. ....
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Review: ‘Sue Ford’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 17th April – 24th August 2014 This is hugely disappointing exhibition of the work of Sue Ford at NGV Australia, Melbourne. The artist deserved better. There is no doubting the...
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Review: ‘The road: Photographers on the move 1970-1975′ at the Monash Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 13th June – 31st August 2014 Artists: Micky Allan, Virginia Coventry, Gerrit Fokkema, John Gollings, Tim Handfield, Ian North, Robert Rooney, Wes Stacey This is another stimulating...
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Review: ‘Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection’ at...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 5th July 2015 Curator: Helen Carroll Gorgeous catalogue with luscious plates, insightful text by Bill Henson (below) and evocative poetry by John Kinsella. Stars on...
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Photographs and text: ‘Quandong, New South Wales, Australia’ 1887
July 2015 A fascinating set of albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards of Quandong, New South Wales, Australia in 1887. These images are probably among the first ever taken of the area, most likely...
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Exhibition: ‘John Wolseley – Heartlands and Headwaters’ at The Ian Potter...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 16th August 2015 This is a wondrous exhibition by John Wolseley at NGV Australia. The whole feeling of the exhibition, its scale and intimacy, the attention to detail...
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Exhibition: ‘The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott...
Exhibition dates: 13 February – 30 August 2015 This is more like it… what a find! There are some fascinating punctum (which denote the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct...
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Exhibition: ‘Storm in a Teacup’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 27th September 2015 This is the best thematic group exhibition I have seen in Melbourne and surrounds this year. Every piece in the exhibition is visually stimulating...
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Review: ‘William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize’ at the Monash...
Exhibition dates: 25 September 2015 – 22 November 2015 Reality, passing In terms of the professional quality of work, the pristine printing and framing, and the “less is more” nature of the hang,...
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In memory: ‘Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1891’
28th April 2016 In memory of all those that lost their lives 20 years ago today at Port Arthur, Tasmania. This albumen photograph of Port Arthur, Tasmania was taken in 1891 by an unknown...
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