Living Together is Easy

National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
27 August - 7 November 2004

Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower
Mito, Japan
24 January - 28 March 2004
Curated by Jason Smith and Eriko Osaka

Published March 2005

Calling all Anti-Capitalist Pashtivists, fluxus reincarnators and Crafty Billboard Operators: Documenting the Uncollectable

Published March 2005

Vivienne Westwood

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
12 November 2004 - 30 January 2005

Published March 2005

Australian Drawing Now: Labouring Lightly

The on again/off again love affair between drawing and contemporary art practice seems to have been going on ad nauseam. From the sixties through to the present day, ongoing tensions between the apparent values of traditional and conceptual art have resulted in much of today's appreciation for the reworking of both aesthetics in what has become a new labour of love.

Published March 2005

Parallel Universe: The Gray St. Workshops @ 20

Gray Street Workshop, which is this year celebrating its twentieth anniversary, has pursued a creative work ethic closely aligned to values of the handmade, not as an end per se but as a means to evolve a creative language grounded in the interplay between ideas and practice.

Published March 2005

Hand to Mouse: Design and the Handmade

There have always been cycles in the making of what we describe as art, crafts and design, where surges of new ideas have been followed by revivals of earlier values or reform movements that challenge both. The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, is working on an exhibition for late 2006, on the interface between art, design, industry and the values of the handmade. Cochranes hope is that it will challenge audiences to look closely at some of the exciting working relationships that are possible.

Published March 2005

Bush TV's: Piliyi - Good One

Nyinkka Nyunyu is an art and culture centre located on Warumungu land in Tennant Creek, right in the middle of the Northern Territory. From the time the idea came up to build something alongside the sacred site of Nyinkka Nyunya, art was always going to be an integral part of the project. The result of many brainstorming sessions amongst traditional owners of the land on which Tennant Creek stands was the idea of dioramas, or Bush TVs to provide the means to present history and contemporary life through art to a diverse audience.

Published March 2005

Patrick Hall's Cabinets of Everyday Curiosities

For Hughes, Patrick Halls cabinets recall the great elaborately decorated cabinets of the 17th century. Rather than mere decoration, Halls cabinets express a poetry of the everyday that is neither a condescending celebration nor a critical analysis but a deeply personal response to his materiel.

Published March 2005

In the Wake of Gesture: Architecture and the Handmade

Architecture has long since surrendered the tactile in favour of grander visions. Through an examination of Sandra Seligs recent work Synthetic Infinite at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the unique responses to architecture and the handmade that this work displays, Murray attempts to question how we might then consider architecture and our relationship with built matter to restore a direct connection with human experience.

Published March 2005

Batik and Kris: Duality of the Javanese Cosmos

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
10 September - 7 November 2004

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005

Fine Art Graduate and Honours Exhibitions Beyond

Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
24 - 27 November 2004

GraduArt 2004
Toowoomba Regional Gallery
27 November 2004 - 30 January 2005

modus vivendi
Queensland University of Technology
3 - 5 November 2004

Published March 2005