Biennale of Sydney 2006

Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pier 2/3 and 14 other venues in and around Sydney
8 June  27 August 2006

Published September 2006

Tracey Clement: Border Zones

Groundfloor Gallery, Balmain
SafARI, Pelt, Chippendale
Sculpture, installation, jewellery
http://www.groundfloorgallery.com/
14 June - 1 July 2006

Published September 2006

Peter Townsend

Peter Townsend 1940-2006

Published September 2006

Reflections in a Golden Eye

James Lynch. Sean Meilak. Viv Miller. Jonathan Nichols. Lisa Radford. Michelle Ussher
Curated by Jan Duffy and Kate Barber
Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
8 July - 13 August 2006

Published September 2006

Sydney Biennale a flaneur reports back

Biennale of Sydney

Published September 2006

Noel Sheridan

Noel Sheridan 1936 - 2006

Published September 2006

et al: the second of the ordinary practices

The second of the ordinary practices
et al
Institute of Modern Art
Brisbane
10 June - 22 July

Published September 2006

Robert Owen: A Different Kind of Modern

Robert Owens longstanding interest in exploring dimensions of light and space beyond the merely visual reaches back into an important line of constructivist art of the early twentieth century. Experiments with form and material have characterised Owens practice throughout his career, as has his openness to heterogeneous influences. Some of the major influences on Owens practice include metaphysical philosophy, Buddhist spirituality, optics, geometry in physics, minimalist sculpture and the work of Marcel Duchamp.
This article refers to the works of Naum Gabo, De Stijl, Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus, Lynden Dadswell, Walter Gropius, Chairman Clift, George Johnston, Leonard Cohen, Jack Hirshman, Jean-François Lyotard, Charles Biederman, David Bohm and Stephen Hyde.

Published September 2006

Renate Nisi: Sculpture of the Senses

Renate Nisi is obsessed by being packaged in a body, that condition common to humans, other animals, plants and even microbes. Growing up in Germany, where 'art had epic qualities', she flirted with the Sublime and the Romantic but converted to Expressionism 'with the figure as central motif.' A further shift has occurred since then, towards minimalism and three-dimensionality, 'away from the sovereignty of forms onto the relational qualities of environments.'

Published September 2006

Artrave

Published September 2006

Heather Ellyard: Inventories and Commentaries

Heather Ellyards valued objects are static, symbolic, juxtaposed rather than flowing. Ellyard asserts that she wants to speak the lyrics and sorrows of our time. As she has said, I am interested in the glimpses, held, remembered, aligned inclusively&I am interested in awareness and how to acknowledge it within a visual framework. It may be that Ellyards vision of the periodical table is a bridge: between life made up of many little things and the one big thing toward which we all yearn. She leans more to wisdom art than to the mimetic or the sublime. Ellyards art is incorrigibly plural, and sustainedly committed to the broadest kind of human vision.
Textual references include the works of D.W. Winnicott, Jacob Rosenberg, Arthur Koestler, Basquiat, Brett Whiteley and Primo Levi amongst others.

Published September 2006

ex de Medici: Symbols of Mortality

ex de Medicis self-named approach to her practice  Dogs Breakfastism  signals an idiosyncratic working method that has seen her embrace photocopy, sound, performance, photography and drawing across a three-decade career. Kelly Gellatly looks at the multifaceted creative occupations of de Medici as both a visual and tattoo artist and the inherent connection she makes in and between these two practices. This text looks at two of de Medicis most prominent series - Gals n Guns and Spectre - through which she explores pressing issues such as global capitalism, corporatisation, materialism and the ongoing war on nature.

Published September 2006