Sara Hughes: The Big Stick Up

The symbolic and perpetual possibilities of pattern are constantly under interrogation in the work of Sara Hughes as she is compelled to inhabit the capricious edges of what painting might be. Being a child of her times, Hughes was part of the sticker generation who adorned the unsuspecting surfaces of schoolbooks, bedroom walls, wardrobes, mirrors and fridges. She applies similar processes to her work as a means of mimicking the act of making something ones own and thus reinforces the claiming and transforming of spatial environments. This article follows Hughes practice through the visitation of childhood moments while simultaneously offering a platform for new conversations about spatial interplays and the shifting dialogues between surface and form, codes and perception and graphic modes and painterly references.
Some of Hughes' primary influences include William Gibsons 2003 novel Pattern Recognition and the works of Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Yoshinori Tanaka and Sergio Leone.

Published September 2006

Noel Sheridan

Noel Sheridan 1936 - 2006

Published September 2006

Art Fairs: Where to go?

Every dog has its day is an expression never more true than when it is applied to Art Fairs. In the late 1980s the Chicago Art Fair and the Cologne Art Fair were both hot spots, while in the early 1990s ARCO in Madrid started to make its presence felt. FIAC in Paris had a minor moment in the sun, as did Frankfurt and then later Berlin. By the end of the 1990s Armory in New York, Miami/Basel, and Frieze in London had all emerged as the places to go.

Published September 2006

Kim Demuth: Signs of Life

Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
23 June - 15 July 2006

Published September 2006

Office 6000

Level 2/16 Milligan Street, Perth,
27 - 31 March 2006

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

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

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

d&k we see a darkness

spectrum project space, Perth
25 March  13 April 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

Artrave

Published September 2006

Feast to Feast: QPACifika
Queensland College of Art
18 December 2005

Published September 2006