Previews
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In the studio: Dean Home
“[I] discovered this incredible dynamic as the peonies aged. They demonstrated a beautiful fragility as they faded.” – Dean Home, 2022
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Ultra Unreal: New myths for new worlds
This multi-sensory exhibition “might include feelings of empathy and interconnectedness, or a sense of wonder or curiosity. Some people might even feel like dancing," says MCA curator Anna Davis.
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Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles
'The Soul Trembles' highlights twenty-five years of Chiharu Shiota’s artistic practice, which explores anthropological concepts of life, death, and relationships through existence in the absence.
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Behind the Scenes: National Art School Archives and Collection
Sydney’s National Art School is the custodian of a rich historical archive brimming with thousands of student artworks across a variety of media, objects, photographs, and documentation.
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In the studio: Julia Gutman
Julia Gutman reuses found textiles to produce “patchworks” that sew together the fabric of personal and collective histories to explore themes of femininity, intimacy, and memory: “layers so thick it breaks the needle.”
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Pure Form: Japanese sculptural ceramics
"Pure Form will appeal to anyone who loves clay and hopefully change their perception of what is possible." – curator, Russell Kelty.
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Spotlight: Shane Forrest
Shane Forrest's art is "a constant examination of 'entropy and the fight against it',” writes Joanna Mendelssohn. “Nothing is wasted. All is transformed.”
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In the studio: Catherine O’Donnell
At the core of Catherine O’Donnell’s practice is elevation of the ordinary. Her drawings and installations focus on the architecture and the urban landscape, transforming fibro houses into complex geometric compositions.
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Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island
Daniel Boyd explores colonial history and multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations’ resistance. Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with the artist.
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In the Studio: India Mark
India Mark finds points of interest and tension in the everyday, conducting complex composition and character studies, both on household items and the people around her.
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In the studio: Margaret Ackland
Watercolours devoted to domestic affairs, how the cataclysm of global events shaped works of a more private-and-precarious subject, and the genesis of new work in the shifting spaces of recent artistic practice.
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An Alternative Economics
In 'An Alternative Economics', contemporary makers Five Mile Radius, Gunybi Ganambarr, Wanda Gillespie, Katie Paterson, Make or Break, Keg de Souza, and Shevaun Wright, offer alternatives to the mantra of eternal growth. Louise R Mayhew previews the show.
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