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Category: Art Writing
Happy Little Trees
Whoever decided to put Bob Ross’s TV series on Netflix deserves a promotion and a raise.
Wall Power
Can we say then that Australian photography is significantly different from trends and developments elsewhere?
Lost in Space
Spaces create stories. In the late 1970s, Sydney’s underground walkways and parking stations were the places where you could experience the stark, modernist spaces of the era’s science fiction movies.
Archibald 2017: a cup of tea and a good lie down
The tension between traditional portraits and works that sit at the limits of what most people consider a portrait is the friction that fires up the whole engine of the prize.
Something Out of Nothingness
A ruin is something that has to be seen.
Vernon Ah Kee: This Is Not History
It would be a mistake to consider the work of Vernon Ah Kee as purely political in motivation.
Possible Futures: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art
“The present is being dismal, so instead of keeping a temporality where the present and the past influence the future, we want to switch things around and have the future influence the present.”
PEOPLE OF PERTH!
“PEOPLE OF PERTH… I COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE – THE ART WORLD IS AWESOME AND EVERYTHING IS FINE…”
John Olsen: Grand Old Man
The saying goes that the only difference between a radical and a conservative is 10 years.