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The five phases of Aboriginal art in Australia
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Djon Mundine

 

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palawa kani: Expressing the power of language in art and the museum context
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Zoe Rimmer and Theresa Sainty

Published 01 June 2020
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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
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Rebecca Carland

Published 01 June 2020
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Looking for murnong
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Lou Bennett and Romaine Moreton

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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
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Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet

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Making Inuit art in the moment
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asinnajaq

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Notes from Kahoʻolawe, Ka Paeʻāina o Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea
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Drew Kahuaina Broderick and Josh Tengan

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Weaving memory, living embodiment
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Freja Carmichael

Published 01 June 2020

Artist Megan Evans was for some years the partner of Aboriginal activist and artist Les Griggs who suicided in 1993. Fifteen years later she has begun to write his story - a story of reconciliation with herself and her country, through a relationship that undid her and put her back together again.

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Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion
Review
Adrian Martin

Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion
Curators: Alessio Cavallaro and
Tyler Cann
ACMI, Melbourne
16 July – 11 October 2009

Published September 2009
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Not Absolute
Review
Annika Evans

Not Absolute
Curator: Janice Lally
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
24 July – 27 September 2009

Published September 2009
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Oh that I were where I would be
Review
Arryn Snowball

Oh that I were where I would be
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
10 June – 4 July 2009

Published September 2009
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Drifting in My Own Land: Nalda Searles
Review
Holly Story

Drifting in My Own Land: Nalda Searles
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Touring Australia 2009 – 2013
19 June - 30 August 2009

Published September 2009
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M/other love: the first relationship & the photography of Toni Wilkinson
Feature
Dawn Barker

Toni Wilkinson’s 'm/other' exhibition of photographs at Perth Galleries, North Fremantle earlier this year confronted the viewer with a series of atypical representations of the mother child relationship. She give a glimpse into the privacy, and reality, of a mother’s world by showing us mothers and their children at their most naked, physically and emotionally.

Published September 2009
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Notes on melancholy and anxiety in the works of Sanja Pahoki
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Hannah Mathews and Sanja Pahoki

The artworks of Sanja Pahoki walk a zigzag between melancholy and its contemporary cousin, anxiety. Curator and writer Hannah Mathews interviewed Sanja Pahoki about her recent work while thinking about Daniel Birnbaum's comment about the relationship between melancholy and the arts:
"The idea of the melancholic as someone not only passive and depressed but also creative is the basis for the Renaissance idea of the genius – the dialectic between darkness and light, destruction and creation."

Published September 2009
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Living palely
Feature
Doris McIlwain

The Stoics may have taken rationality too far in their resolute minimisation of all feeling. Are emotions no more than disturbances in the logical landscape? What of Pascal’s ‘the heart has its reasons that reason is not acquainted with’? Perhaps the rationality/emotion divide is overdrawn, risking battle lines forming around pure opposites never found in real life examples. Yet the issue has bite, relevance to intimate features of our life: our friendships, our sense of safety in the world, how much we give of ourselves and give up of ourselves to our working life and the living texture of what it feels like to be us: fugitive, or having the ‘warm antiquity of self’.

Published September 2009
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SRL: Stigma Research Laboratory
Review
Andrew Harper

SRL: Stigma Research Laboratory
Philippa Steele, John Vella, Scot Cotterell
Moonah Arts Centre
8 May – 21 May 2009

Published September 2009
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A New Truth to Materials
Review
Danni Zuvela

A New Truth to Materials
Boxcopy (Miles Hall, Chris Handran, Chloe Cogle, and Ross Manning)
Curator: Raymonde Rajkowski
Level 3 Metro Arts, Brisbane
April 30 - May 30 2009

Published September 2009
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Inside Sydney's new Outsider art centre
Feature
Colin Rhodes

Outsider Art is enjoying increasing attention in Australia. STOARC – the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection – at the University of Sydney opened its public face at Callan Park Gallery in March 2009.

Published September 2009
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Choosing who will keep the stories strong
Feature
Henry F. Skerritt

In early 2006, the renowned Liyagauwumirr painter Mickey Durrng Garrawurra died in his home on Milingimbi. For many years, Durrng (1940-2006) and his brother Tony Dhanyala (1935-2004) were the only people authorised to paint the Liyagauwumirr’s most important clan designs. Before his death, however, Durrng made the seemingly unorthodox decision to pass this knowledge and authority to his sister Ruth Nalmakarra (b.1954) and her family. What followed was a flowering of tradition, as Nalmakarra and her sisters used this broadened authority to instigate a cultural revival that united their community around these ancient designs.

Published September 2009
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The Second Life of Pye: Daniel Jay Mounsey
Feature
Charity Bramwell

Social media is the new buzz word and trend - like it or not.
Daniel Jay Mounsey is ahead of the pack in having Pyewacket Kazyanenko as his well-established alter-ego in Second Life, AND collaborating and performing online through an avatar with Stelarc and others, AND(!) performing onstage live as anime character Hell Girl.
Curator and writer Charity Bramwell interviewed all she could find of him.

Published September 2009
 
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
City of Melville
The Torch
NAVA
MGNSW