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Triple Zero
December 11, 2017 | troublemagTo A Dead End Heartbeat
Robert Ruckus
The sirens sound down the dimly lit city streets. I lay wondering how we got here while the skaters rush by flipping tricks through the midnight hours. The grinding on concrete planter boxes … Read More
A Visit to Carrick Hill
December 11, 2017 | troublemagInga Walton
On 12 February, 1935 in a quiet ceremony at St Peter’s College Chapel Edward (Bill) Waterfield Hayward (1903-83) married Ursula Barr Smith (1907-70), thus uniting two of South Australia’s most socially prominent families.
Hayward was the younger … Read More
Play On: The Art of Sport
December 11, 2017 | troublemagA selection of works from 10 years of the Basil Sellers Art Prize A NETS Victoria and Ian Potter Museum of Art touring exhibition. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre 782 Kingsway, Gymea (NSW),
9 December 2017 – … Read More
Trouble November 2017
November 7, 2017 | troublemagNovember 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
House on Fire
November 7, 2017 | troublemagIan Strange : Open House
“You fucking idiot, this is just the coolest house party ever!” – Random drunk lady
FLICK!
The light switch turns back on revealing a ponzi looking cat attempting to find something deeper within … Read More
Whimsical Mayhem & Conceptual Metamorphoses
October 1, 2017 | troublemagPersonal Structures – Open Borders 57th Biennale di Venezia 2017
Tiziana Borghese
One of the many collateral exhibitions running in parallel to the 57th Venice Biennale is Personal Structures – Open Borders, curated by Rene Rietmeyer, exhibiting in a … Read More
Conversing in Tongues
October 1, 2017 | troublemagRobert Ruckus
I hate silence. Or maybe it’s just that I am afraid of it …
There is much to be said about language; at times reflecting passion or grief with precision, and at others a spasmodic sprawl of … Read More
Romancing the Skull
October 1, 2017 | troublemagArt Gallery of Ballarat (VIC) 14 October 2017 – 28 January 2018
IMAGES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Paul Sloan, Still life #5 2014, pigment print on hahnemuhle photo rag © The artist, … Read More
The Presence of Absence
September 12, 2017 | troublemagTracey Moffatt: My Horizon 57th Biennale di Venezia 2017
words & photos Tiziana Borghese
There is nothing more magical or powerful than that instance when a work of art turns your world upside down. When preconceived perspectives on life, … Read More
A Bloody Business
September 9, 2017 | troublemagBlood: Attract & Repel University of Melbourne
by Inga Walton “And I see the red oil of life / running from my wrists / onto tomorrow’s headlines”
– Spike Milligan, CBE (1918-2002).1
As part of the Science Gallery … 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
ACTease February 2014
February 4, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
“I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God … I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. … Read More
Conversations with the Black Square
December 16, 2013 | troublemag
Revisiting the art and theory of Kazimir Malevich through the sculpture of Gill Gatfield
by Jennifer Choat
“I HAVE fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art,” Kazimir Malevich announced in 1915. The Russian artist … Read More
AdeLOUD Dec2013 / Jan2014
December 15, 2013 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Do you still believe in Santa? I used to. In fact, I used to visit the big man with the long, white beard every year since I turned 21, inform him of my good behaviour … Read More
ACTease December 2013 / January 2014
December 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What are the best art exhibitions and shows you’ve seen this year? The last year has been a very special one for Canberra, with 2013 marking the centenary of this extraordinary city. Whilst I’ve enjoyed … Read More
ACTease November 2013
November 1, 2013 | troublemag
Courtney Symes
One of my favourite excursions on a sunny weekend in Canberra is a stroll around Lake Burley Griffin, followed by a wander through the NGA and National Portrait Gallery (and a sneaky coffee stop at one … Read More
ACTease October 2013
October 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
I’m not a camper, So I can empathise with the shock that Belconnen artists Carolyn Fitzpatrick and Carole Osmotherly would have experienced as they reluctantly left the comfort of their Canberra homes to venture on … Read More
ACTease September 2013
September 3, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
September is one of my favourite months in Canberra. The show-stopper event of the month is Floriade (think one million flowers in Canberra’s Commonwealth Park attracting more than 400,000 visitors), which starts on 14 September, then … Read More
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Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
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