Art Meets Design: Brunswick Bouldering Plaza

Stuart Beekmeyer  

This project merges public sculpture and recreation by creating a climbable centrepiece for a new public plaza in Melbourne’s northern fringe.  

How has the project played out in terms of turning your original vision into reality … Read More

Social Work: Ken McGregor

Philanthropist, consultant, manager, curator and collector of contemporary world art, Ken McGregor, has made an extraordinary impression on the Australian art world over the years. He is the author and producer of more than thirty art related publications, including John … Read More

Dito Von Tease: Ditology

“I started the Ditology project in 2009, when I created my Facebook account. I wanted this to become a virtual space free from my relatives, colleagues and not-very-friends, so I created an avatar.

“In Italian someone could say I wanted … Read More

Days Like This: Mary Tonkin

Inga Walton  

One of Australia’s most accomplished and vigorous landscape artists, Mary Tonkin works primarily from her family farm at Kalorama, surrounded by the Dandenong Ranges National Park. Established by her Grandfather in the 1930s, the farm supplies rare … Read More

LIFE UNLIMITED: Art, Technology & Us

Cameron Rose  

Synthetica at Gippsland Art Gallery is a touring exhibition produced by BLINDSIDE and NETS Victoria. Curated by Claire Anna Watson, Synthetica examines the relationship between art, technology and us. It includes the work of seven artists – … Read More

An Aussie Wally: Michael McWilliams

An Aussie Wally, an exhibition of new paintings by Tasmanian artist Michael McWilliams, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 5 Malakoff Street, North Caulfield (VIC), until 29 August 2015 – diggins.com.au Download the illustrated catalogue with essay … Read More

Stress Less: Colouring Books for Grown-ups

In this otherwise bland and grey inner-city office building a brave experiment in Colour Therapy is being conducted …

The world is spinning faster all the time, it seems. Where advances in technology once offered … Read More

The Dirty Dozen: Skunk Control

The glass cabinets in Campbell Arcade will be reactivated as exhibition space this month. In a wry nod to their location and number, the glass cabinets (a.k.a. Platform Arts Space) have been renamed The Dirty Dozen as part of the … Read More

Brethren in Sincerity: The Pre-Raphaelites

Inga Walton

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood … had on their side three things that the English public never forgives: youth, power and enthusiasm.

– Oscar Wilde, The English Renaissance of Art (1882)

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), … Read More

Greg Creek: The Desktop Drawings

SOCIAL WORK

Created on modest scaled desks and yet sometimes beguiling by their incredible length, Greg Creek’s drawings focus upon the richness of a studio process that captures the interaction between the incidentals of everyday events and universal contexts.

Shepparton … Read More