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

Deluxe: decorous crossover between art and design

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

Published September 2006

Kim Demuth: Signs of Life

Jan Manton Art, Brisbane
23 June - 15 July 2006

Published September 2006

Noel Sheridan

Noel Sheridan 1936 - 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

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

d&k we see a darkness

spectrum project space, Perth
25 March  13 April 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

Kevin Todd: Multi-valency Rules OK

Published September 2006

Mike Stubbs: Burnt

Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
21 April  20 May 2006

Published September 2006

Peter Townsend

Peter Townsend 1940-2006

Published September 2006