Becalmed: The Art of Going Nowhere in the Work of Nicholas Folland

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The Palmer Sculpture Biennial
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Tracey Lock

Tracy Lock on an artist-run environmental art project in the Mount Lofty Ranges

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Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski: And the earth sighed
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Julianne Pierce

Published 01 September 2016
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The Derwent Project
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David Stephenson and Martin Walch

Published 01 September 2016
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Ray Harris: Guileless and Monstrous
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Juliette Peers

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Stop the Moats: Recent work by Cecile Williams and Nick Mangan
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Kevin Murray

Adjunct Professor at RMIT Kevin Murray contrasts the idea of Australians as xenophobic 'moat' people with the idea of 'poor craft' which uses detritus to alchemically create a new preciousness.

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100KM Artworks: Fiona MacDonald's Local Studies
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Catriona Moore

Senior Lecturer at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Catriona Moore writes bout the recent work of Fiona MacDonald in terms of its connections to locality and history.

Published December 2010
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Confluent Forms: Ariel Hassan recent work
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Niki Sperou

Biotech artist Niki Sperou unpacks at the curious art practice of Adelaide and Berlin-based Ariel Hassan who uses science, philosophy and politics as well as paint, canvas and polyurethane foam to make work embodying action, reaction and the connectivity between all things.

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Shen Shaomin's Bonsai
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Wu Hung

University of Chicago Professor Wu Hung analyses Sydney and Beijing-based Shen Shaomin's Bonsai series as seen at the MCA for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney as "uncovering secrets".

Published December 2010

Becalmed: the art of going nowhere in the work of Nicholas Folland

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