The Artist Is Known: Warwick Thornton’s Mother Courage
At the centre of Mother Courage (2012) is a woman painting: she sits in a van, which exists in a film, which plays on a screen, which sits in the…
Project 13: Jamais Vu
The Melbourne Review talked with Anna Pappas, recently elected President of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association, on the role of the association, the art market in Australia, and her newly…
Walkabout
Mixing traditional culture with contemporary elements, Aboriginal artists Charlotte (Penny) Hood, Bradley Brown (Gunai Kurnai Bidawal) and Cassie Harrap (Taungurung Wurundjeri) will be showing their works as part of the…
Steven Rhall and Susan Fereday at the CCP
The Centre for Contemporary Photography will present Steven Rhall’s ‘Kulin Project’ and Susan Fereday’s ‘Infinite Image’ exhibitions, as well as the launch of Fereday’s new book, from February 8 until…
The Kenneth Jack View
The Kenneth Jack View is as much a journey through the beauty and vastness of this continent, as it is through an artist’s working life.
Radiance: The Neo-Impressionists
It was the American author, poet and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau who once said, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”.
When everything old is new again: Volker Albus talks design
As Professor Volker Albus prowls around the various gallery spaces at RMIT Gallery, unpacking some 63 large crates, and pulling out Modern European furniture, it’s like he is greeting old…
Del Kathryn Barton: ecstasy and metamorphosis
The studio of Del Kathryn Barton is a place of colour, forms and found objects that belong, I sense, as much in dreams as in reality.
A Hand Up for Prahran Mission
A range of outstanding contemporary art will go under the hammer this weekend in a joint initiative between Prahran Mission and fine art auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett.