Previews
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Julia deVille: Wholeness and the Implicit Order
Julia deVille provides a contemporary take on the taxidermy art form as her jewel-encrusted, ethically sourced, stuffed animals debunk the glorification of the trophy-hunting culture.
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Kieran Butler: Queen Size
Kieran Butler celebrates their non-binary identity using the illusion, transformation and magic of drag and photography. They shared, ‘the foundation for my practice comes from Photography and understanding what its materiality is.
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Genevieve Felix Reynolds: Logic
The tightly-choreographed paintings of Sydney-based artist Genevieve Felix Reynolds hatch multi-layered dialogues between classicism and contemporaneity; materiality and digitisation.
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Ken Unsworth: Truly Madly
Ken Unsworth practice includes levitating rocks, automated pianos and cycling skeletons. It echoes minimalism, body art, arte povera and vaudeville in equal measure, yet remains deeply idiosyncratic.
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Sangeeta Sandrasegar: Quite Contrary
By referencing an eclectic and far-reaching range of art historical movements in the Western canon, Sangeeta Sandrasegar reveals that the image of women have been continually defined by the patriarchal mandates of their time.
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Keg de Souza: Common Knowledge and Learning Curves
‘Common Knowledge and Learning Curves’ is a solo exhibition by Sydney-based artist Keg de Souza presented at Artspace Sydney. As the title suggests; de Souza is interested in breaking down pedagogical theory through elements of play. This is realised through a combination of speculative spatial interventions that house public-programs, community...
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Elizabeth Kelly: Macrocosmia
Elizabeth Kelly’s name in glass is synonymous with the tags of ‘architecture’ and ‘geometry’. For the past decade Kelly has investigated organic microscopic structures including viruses and cellular life forms. ‘Macrocosmia’ is a solo exhibition that features three larger than life sculptures that refer to microcosmic architecture. For each, the...
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Eric Bridgeman: KALA BÜNG (Colours join together)
In Eric Bridgeman’s latest solo exhibition ‘KALA BÜNG (Colours join together)’, the artist presents a new installation of ‘shield paintings’, text pieces and photographic portraits taken in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The body of work has been brewing for some time, with his initial drawings and wheelbarrow works from 2010...
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So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history
What would our national history be if women were responsible for its telling? Are elements of our past forgotten or ignored by our traditional recorded history? These are the questions posed by ‘So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history’, an exhibition which invited ten artists to create work that...
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Khaled Sabsabi: A Self Portrait
In the 1970s, a sub-culture ascended from the embattled streets of the Bronx, New York – hip-hop. It’s stylised rhythmic beats lapped by opinionated vocals, reflecting the extreme social realities of urban culture on a universal scale. Attaining popularity in the 1980s, this musical art form offered freedom of thought,...
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A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness
Hannah Presley and I discuss Indigenous Australian art. It’s a balance of infectious enthusiasm and deep knowledge. Not far into the conversation I feel a part of something new, yet also along for the ride. Presley’s passion for her field is contagious; it’s a rapid-fire, dry-witted, bridging discussion that crosses...
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Owen Leong: Original Nature – Interview
'There is a cyclical energy in this new exhibition that moves from interior to exterior, and back again. I created life casts of my own body, smashed them into pieces, then reformed them into new compositions'. – Owen Leong
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