Exhibitions to Watch

I hate the word brand. People have forgotten the importance of sub-culture. We are a community and an intervention.

Ben Watt, Founder, Buzzin’Fly Records

Published June 2011

Fiona Foley: Public and Political

Feature

Louise Martin-Chew

Fiona Foley's recent public work has gone from strength to strength most recently at Mackay where her six large new works form a trail commemorating the Pacific and black history of the region.

Published June 2011

Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia

Feature

John Kean

Freelance curator, honorary associate of Museum Victoria and Blandowski-ite from way back John Kean analyses this prickly Prussian polymath's Illustrated Encyclopedia on Australia at last brought together and to light by the efforts of New Zealander Harry Allen. The book includes contributions by Mark Dugagrist, Brook Andrew, Luise Hercus and Thomas A. Darragh.

Published June 2011

Yalangabara: Art of the Djang'kawu

Feature

Cath Bowdler

'Yalangabara: Art of the Djang'kawu' curated by Banduk Marika and Margie West includes art made from 1939 till recently. All works are about the same creation story and all comprise a history of creative and spiritual custodianship by the Marika family of the Rirratjingu clan.

Published June 2011

Dis-covery

Review

Peter Hughes

Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
25 March - 1 May 2011
Curator: Colin Langridge

Published June 2011

Jason Wing: In Flight

Feature

Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt writes about both soothing and painful installations and paintings by Jason Wing that explore his Chinese and Aboriginal roots.

Published June 2011

A Third Path: the Musée des Confluences

Feature

Arnaud Morvan

French curator Arnaud Morvan, who recently completed his Phd at the University of Melbourne on the art of the East Kimberley, writes about the new approach to showing and consulting about Indigenous art taken by the still-under construction Musée des Confluences (due to open in 2014) in Lyon.
"It represents a first step towards an abolition of the segregation endured by non-Western art in Europe and an attempt to rise above the antiquated opposition between art and ethnography."

Published June 2011

Rewriting the Labels

Editorial

Stephanie Radok

Indigenous culture is moving out of dedicated spaces and into the mainstream. Ultimately all Indigenous culture is claiming the space for experiences that have not been widely told and this broadens the space for the stories of everyone whose stories are untold.

Published June 2011

Bruce Reynolds: Air Percussion

Review

Louise Martin-Chew

Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
3 - 26 March 2011

Published June 2011

Ken and Julia Yonetani / Janet Tavener

Review

Megan Fizell

Still Life: The Food Bowl: Ken and Julia Yonetani
Artereal Gallery, Sydney, June 2011
Mildura Palimpsest #8, 9-11 Sept 2011
GV Art, London, October 2011

Melting moments: Janet Tavener
Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2 -27 March 2011

Published June 2011

Elcho Island: Morning Star over London

Feature

Jo Higgins

Artlink's UK contributing editor Jo Higgins interviewed Melbourne-born London gallerist Rebecca Hossack about her Indigenous art program and her attempts to raise its profile in London. She has two galleries and each summer for three months both galleries show only Australian Indigenous art in her Songlines series. Recently Elcho Island art featured.

Published June 2011