West Berlin’s initial artistic magnetism was no accident, notes Jochen Gutsch, who has programmed the festival Urban Subcultures 2016: Music and art in Berlin – the wild 1980s and their legacy, with an exhibition, Geniale Dilletanten, at its main hub in Sydney and satellite events in Melbourne and Brisbane...
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Linden Art Prize 2016 by Gemma Pass Set within the parameters of the front gallery space, Coulter has integrated Linden’s existing fireplace into the work, to push the notion that painting can articulate space in a way that challenges the historical use of the medium...
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The Charged Object by Naomi Gall Through soft sculpture installations, The Charged Object explores the way in which tactile materials can become charged with meaning and significance when removed from the domestic space and into the gallery context…
Heavy Artillery by Tracey Clement Heavy Artillery is the latest offering from White Rabbit Gallery. Drawn from founder and director Judith Neilson’s ever-expanding collection, the show features more than 30 videos, paintings, drawings, sculptures and multimedia installations by Chinese artists…
Lazy Racer by Tracey Clement Auckland based painter Julian Hooper continually finds inspiration by drawing on his Hungarian and Tongan ancestry. But in his most recent body of work Lazy Racer he turned his gaze closer to home…
Boo! Aboriginal Ghost Stories and Other Scary Matter by Jane Llewellyn In Boo! Aboriginal Ghost Stories and Other Scary Matter, part of this year’s Adelaide Festival of the Arts, curator Troy-Anthony Baylis brings together a number of artists working across diverse media to present works which explore myths and legends within Aboriginal knowledge systems…