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My Monster: Animal Human Hybrid
August 9, 2018 | troublemagRMIT GALLERY 29 June – 18 August 2019
IMAGES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
COVER August 2018: Ronnie van HOUT, Sculpt d. Dog 2001, print on archival museum rag paper, 81 x … Read More
SALON August 2018
August 8, 2018 | troublemagSam SMITH, Nyströms Cafe at Bungenäs 2017. spaced 3: north by southeast, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth (WA), 18 August 2018 – 7 January 2019 – artgallery.wa.gov.au
Kylie MINOGUE, Kylie Kiss Me Once … Read More
Frogs but few Princes
August 8, 2018 | troublemagREVIEW: The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize 2018 9th June – 19th August
by Alexandra Sasse
In looking at art, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince. That moment when the object you … Read More
Patterns of Collecting
August 8, 2018 | troublemagby Holly Barbaro
Stepping across popular memory, generations and continents, even our most humble of collected possessions can be imbued with great value. Patterns of Collecting: From the Bower at The Johnston Collection reveals the secret life of our … Read More
Comics Face August 2018
August 8, 2018 | troublemagNews Show by Ive Sorocuk
This comic first appeared in Trouble July 2013 Want more? See all of the Comics Face we’ve run to date.
Finding the Art in Phuket
August 6, 2018 | troublemagThe Art of Letting it Find You
Anthony S Cameron
I’ve seen some decent circuses in my time, but nothing conjured up in a big tent can compare to the daily human circus that is Phuket. Humans on holiday … Read More
PODCAST: Letters from the inside
July 30, 2018 | troublemagListen to the 'Letters from the inside' podcast here.
A moving spoken word performance of letters written by men and women in Central Victorian prisons.
Creator/Facilitator Lisa D’Onofrio. Directed by Kate Stones.
Performed by: Donna Steven, Stephen Mitchell and … Read More
SALON July 2018
July 11, 2018 | troublemagCOVER JULY 2018: Penny BYRNE, I Heart Nauru 2017, repurposed porcelain figurine, enamel paints. H x 140mm W x 90mm D x 90mm. Image credit: Matthew Stanton. All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, part of Melbourne Art … Read More
Highness : Savage Amusement
July 2, 2018 | troublemagHIGHNESS parades the regal feminine from the famous to the everyday, shape-shifting through a shining array of queen personas.
Highly performative and visually immersive, HIGHNESS richly considers the work of wearing a crown: its freedoms and limitations; its histories of … Read More
All That Glitters
July 2, 2018 | troublemagCarats from Cartier
by Inga Walton
Cartier: The Exhibition has been dazzling patrons at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (until 22 July, 2018). It is by far the most impressive display of the jeweller’s art to be exhibited … Read More
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Trouble November 2017
November 7, 2017 | troublemag
November issue FEATURES: Lot 19 Spring Sculpture Prize Salon, Comics Face by Ive Sorocuk, The Madness of Art: Close Encounters by Jim Kempner, House on Fire – Ian Strange : Open Home by Robert Ruckus, NOVEMBER Salon, Finding the Art … Read More
Glen Clarke : A History of Violence
February 3, 2015 | troublemag
CATALOGUE ESSAY
Rajesh Punj
There is an impressive complexity of paper and pattern that constitutes the work of Australian artist Glen Clarke. A heady cocktail of politics, economics and aesthetics are neatly folded into each of the origami styled … Read More
ACTease September 2014
September 1, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
It was with a heavy heart that I put fingers to keyboard for this final ACTease instalment. I have thoroughly enjoyed compiling this column each month and have never been short of amazing exhibitions to … Read More
ACTease August 2014
August 1, 2014 | troublemag
Courtney Symes
What makes you happy? Eleven weeks ago I gave birth to my second child, and one of the things I missed most during pregnancy was running. I tried to run for as long (and as gently … Read More
ACTease JULY 2014
July 1, 2014 | troublemag
Having spent most of my childhood years growing up on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific, I was excited to discover that one of the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibitions, Atua: Sacred gods from Polynesia (until 3 August) … Read More
ACTease JUNE 2014
June 2, 2014 | troublemag
One of the secrets of a successful landscape artist and landscape photographer, I believe, is their ability to interpret and capture light in their works. Landscape paintings are a personal favourite of mine, and I had high hopes for … Read More
ACTease May 2014
May 1, 2014 | troublemag
What is the most obscure name you have ever seen for an art exhibition? Like choosing a title for a book or film, deciding on a title for an exhibition is an important part of the creative process. It’s … Read More
ACTease April 2014
April 2, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What is your favourite children’s book? No matter how hard I try, I can’t choose one. Now that my eldest daughter is nearly two, I have to confess that I’m enjoying rediscovering my old favourite … Read More
ACTease March 2014
March 3, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
The things that inspire artists constantly amaze and excite me. It could be a word, a feeling, their home or local environment and surroundings that trigger the greatest creative sparks. The beauty of these humble … Read More
ADEloud February 2014
February 8, 2014 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Well, Santa may have come and gone and I didn’t get what I wanted, but the silly season is still rife in Adelaide, with a giant cockroach recently being erected in Rundle Mall. Must the … Read More
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Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
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