Stop the Moats: Recent work by Cecile Williams and Nick Mangan

Cover of Stop the Moats: Recent work by Cecile Williams and Nick Mangan
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The Palmer Sculpture Biennial
Profile
Tracey Lock

Tracy Lock on an artist-run environmental art project in the Mount Lofty Ranges

Published 01 September 2016
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Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski: And the earth sighed
Profile
Julianne Pierce

Published 01 September 2016
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The Derwent Project
Profile
David Stephenson and Martin Walch

Published 01 September 2016
Light Square Gallery
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Ray Harris: Guileless and Monstrous
Profile
Juliette Peers

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100KM Artworks: Fiona MacDonald's Local Studies
Profile
Catriona Moore

Senior Lecturer at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Catriona Moore writes bout the recent work of Fiona MacDonald in terms of its connections to locality and history.

Published December 2010
Confluent Forms: Ariel Hassan recent work
Profile
Niki Sperou

Biotech artist Niki Sperou unpacks at the curious art practice of Adelaide and Berlin-based Ariel Hassan who uses science, philosophy and politics as well as paint, canvas and polyurethane foam to make work embodying action, reaction and the connectivity between all things.

Published December 2010
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Shen Shaomin's Bonsai
Profile
Wu Hung

University of Chicago Professor Wu Hung analyses Sydney and Beijing-based Shen Shaomin's Bonsai series as seen at the MCA for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney as "uncovering secrets".

Published December 2010
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Renew Adelaide pilot: 2 wheels good
Profile
Ianto Ware

Zine publisher and educator Dr Ianto Ware is the Project Manager of Renew Adelaide, an urban renewal clone of Marcus Westbury's Renew Newcastle, in which the 'definition of creativity has to be broad enough to encompass the wide fields of socially innovative activity that simply doesn't fit elsewhere.'

Published June 2010

Adjunct Professor at RMIT Kevin Murray contrasts the idea of Australians as xenophobic 'moat' people with the idea of 'poor craft' which uses detritus to alchemically create a new preciousness.

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Shen Shaomin's Bonsai
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