COVER: Melissa DAVIS (filmmaker), End Sexism Now (still), documentary. VU at Metro West, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray (VIC), 21, 23, 27 & 28 November. Screening as part of Big West Festival, 20 – 28 November 2015 – bigwest.com.au
Lisa REIHANA (New Zealand b.1964), in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (still) 2015, Four-channel HD video, 32 minutes (looped) 5:1 sound, colour, ed. 2/5. Image courtesy: The artist, Fehily Contemporary and Artprojects. in Pursuit of Venus [infected], Queensland Art Gallery, Stanley Place, South Bank (QLD), until early 2016 – qagoma.qld.gov.au
‘The talk’ (detail) 2002, designed by David Larwill and woven by Milena Paplinska and Irja West, wool, cotton, 1.71 x 2.2m, ATW Collection. ‘Major Works from the Australian Tapestry Workshop’, Wangaratta Art Gallery, 56 Ovens Street, Wangaratta (VIC), 31 October 2015 – 24 January 2016
Rushdi Anwar, ‘Irhal (Expel); hope and sorrow of displacement’ 2014-15, burnt chairs, black pigment. Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds (VIC), until 29 November 2015
Nicole Loyson: The Billboard, Knox Skate and BMX Park, Knoxfield. ‘Immerse’, Knox City Council, 14 November to 14 December 2015
The Western Sydney University Sculpture Award & Exhibition has been postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19, but the finalists have been announced. Congratulations to: Mark Booth, Jennifer Cochrane, Chris Edwards, Harrie Fasher, John Fitzmaurice, Jim Flook, Martin George, Akira Kamada, … Read More
One afternoon you rock up to your hospo job with a hangover, only to find that it’s closed its doors indefinitely and suddenly you’re unemployed again. With fuck all in your savings account, you decide to drown … Read More
This year the festival will stage an online version of the event, accompanied by a program of online seminars and events throughout the Festival period. The festival will then work to present a scaled-back physical … Read More
And just as the zombie apocalypse kicked in, I quit my job. I’ll tell you why later in the piece. So, now I find myself unemployed at 50, in the middle of a pandemic. This is … Read More
Art and technology are by definition divorced from nature. Art is the product of human creativity and technique; it is an object, image, sound or movement that exists as a unique manifestation of our imagination. Technology comes … Read More
Australia’s largest showcase of urban & street art
20 – 29 February 2020
This inaugural festival will see over 100 street artists and musicians take over Melbourne’s iconic multi-level warehouse, The Facility, transforming it from top to bottom with paintings, … Read More
Rolled into Alice Springs, literally: a strong head wind burnt up all the petrol. As the sun set in the west (I presume it was the west because that’s where the sun sets where I … Read More
Have you had any lessons? The enquiry came from a woman and her friend who had been loitering behind me as I painted en plein air in a local park. It seemed a particularly stupid question, especially … Read More