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

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

Yvonne Boag: Mapping Place, Memory and Conversations

Yvonne Boag is a traveller, a wanderer and keen surveyor of her surroundings. Her concerns of language and place traverse a myriad of media such as paintings, prints and drawings in a career spanning three decades. As Boag commented in 1989 With every new work I start, it seems I am always at a beginning. Each work is an attempt to hold on to time. To make marks of that time, which will trace a pattern through my life& Through this text Donna Brett looks at Boags journeys to places such as Korea, Paris and the Lockhart River and her use of iconography and dense layering as a means of mapping her interaction with places, journeys and people. Some artistic influences here discussed include the works of Roger Hilton, William Scott, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Avis Newman. The Lockhart River, Urban Landscape and Conversations series are referred to in considerable detail.

Published September 2006

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

Currents II

People involved in the arts and education might have difficulty recognising the Australia that the Treasurer has been talking up recently: the one with the record 4% low unemployment. But the Treasurers spin fails to mention that to be counted as employed you only have to work one hour per week, which bears out the reality of a life in the arts.

Published September 2006

Mike Stubbs: Burnt

Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
21 April  20 May 2006

Published September 2006

Artrave

Published September 2006

Bloom: Anna Hughes, Lisa Harms & Kaylie Weir

Queens Theatre Adelaide
29 April  21 May 2006

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

d&k we see a darkness

spectrum project space, Perth
25 March  13 April 2006

Published September 2006

Deluxe: decorous crossover between art and design

Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
Hobart
6 - 26 May 2006

Published September 2006

Sydney Biennale a flaneur reports back

Biennale of Sydney

Published September 2006