Good enough to eat: Katherine Hattam's paintings

Crikey.com blogger and book designer W.H. Chong describes the paintings of Katherine Hattam that "zing and crackle with edible hues."

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Kate Shaw: Amping up the Magic Hour

In an interview format artist and academic Stephen Haley discusses the work of Kate Shaw the artist whose work features on the cover of the Phenomena issue of Artlink. Shaw talks about the way she uses colour, her techniques and goals from garnering attention to depicting an ambivalent relationship to the natural world.

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Memoir Series: Elnathan Mews

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Bridging the brains of humans, bees and flies: Fiona Hall at the QBI

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The Mystery of Shit: Wim Delvoye

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Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

In his meditations on the recently published book Insect Media by Jussi Parikka, the New York-based staff writer for Rhizome at the New Museum Jacob Gaboury suggests that the dehumanisation of media technologies may be seen as engaging with the world in a form of non-human affect.

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