Return to Queensland's Top End: Lockhart River Art Centre

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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
Feature
Balamohan Shingade

Published 01 September 2018
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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
Feature
Nicholas Thomas

Published 01 September 2018
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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 September 2018
Hazelhurst
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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
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Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

Published 01 September 2018
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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
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Wes Hill

Published 01 September 2018
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YARN: The art of conversation
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Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

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PICA 2
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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
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Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

Published 01 June 2018
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Katie West: Living well
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Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

Chantelle Woods anecdotes of her journey into the heart of the Lockhart River on the Cape York of Far North Queensland, during an art workers Traineeship through the Queensland Art Gallerys Story Place Exhibition. The relationships that formed between the women, the art and the environment.

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