Ghost in the backyard

Using the work of two current Antipodean artists, Amy-Jo Jory and David Pledger, Melbourne-based Kate Sandford explores the place of suburbia in our consciousness and the way that even though real suburbia has changed, some representations of it have stayed the same.

Published March 2009

Open Air: Portraits in the landscape

Open Air: Portraits in the landscape
Curators: Wally Caruana, Michael Desmond, Andrew Sayers
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
4 December 2008  1 March 2009

Published March 2009

Crystalline signs of the small and poetic

In Audrey Lams Under Development (2007), two detectives investigating a murder seek answers in an ominous, half-built structure. Close attention to the lush, inky compositions reveals the frozen temporality of a Brisbane landmark: the film records the historic erection of the Gallery of Modern Art.

Published March 2009

OK with my decay: Encounters with chronology

Susan Milne, Izabela Pluta, Annie Hogan and Hannah Bertram work with the idea of the theatre of decline set within the grounds of the domestic environment.

Published March 2009

The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album

The Christmas Tree Bucket:
Trent Parkes Family Album
Australian Centre for Photography
21 November 2008  24 January 2009

Published March 2009

Editorial

Published March 2009

Conference of the birds, the trees, the waves, Correspondences: Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami

Published March 2009

Time and motion studies: Twin strategies

Gabriella and Silvana Mangano undertake their art as a shared style of communication between siblings. Now showing at MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art) their collaborative work embraces intimacy and repetition in performance, drawing, video, sound and installation.

Published March 2009

Discord: Art from MONA

Discord: Art from MONA
Curator: Nicole Durling
9 January  1 February 2009
Salamanca Arts Centre and various locations

Published March 2009

dreamTime

An analysis of Aboriginal conceptions of time and its similarity to the ideas of modern physics, science fiction, and those of artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Breton, Klein and Richter, and philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida. They too have sought to feel and know spacetime in the pressing and intimate way that Aborigines do.

Published March 2009

Planning for deep time: Nuclear monuments and Aboriginal art

Darren Jorgensen tackles the topic of nuclear waste and the possible plan to make Australia the dump site. If this were to occur the affect it would have on the Australian land as well as the Aboriginal communities that inhabit it would be quiet destructive and detrimental. Jorgensen explains the situation whereby foreign countries seek to dump their nuclear waste in Australian land by bribing its inhabitants for the right to do so.

In addition to this Jorgensen also explains the nature of monuments and its significance towards portraying an indexical symbol of, in this situation, danger by exploring the involvement of aboriginal artists in relation to the creation of such monuments.

Published March 2009

Artrave

Published March 2009