Choreography of the elements: Janet Echelman

American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight. The artist’s ongoing series of aerial net sculptures started in 1997 when she was in India as a Fulbright Scholar and became fascinated with the beauty and movement of traditional fishing nets. In 2011 her installation 'Tsunami 1.26' hung over the Town Hall traffic intersection in Sydney as a joint initiative of the Powerhouse Museum and Art and About Sydney.

Published March 2012

Australian art abroad: Doing it better

Published March 2012

The James C. Sourris A.M. Collection

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
12 November 2011 – 19 February 2012

Published March 2012

The future is now: Sam Songailo's short-circuits

Published 01 March 2012

Exhibitions to Watch

Published March 2012

Shape of the wind: pattern & chaos in Sue Lovegrove's island art

Head of Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania and writer Peter Hay describes the recent paintings of Sue Lovegrove made from her experience of different islands off the coast of Tasmania - Maatsuyker Island, Egg Island and most recently Tasman Island. Lovegrove began with painting clouds but has moved on to paint the shape of the wind.

Published March 2012

Not just black and white

Scholar and inaugural director of the new Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre in Katherine Cath Bowdler discusses the work of two indigenous artists Brook Andrew and Gunybi Ganambarr and suggests that they are both operating at a conceptual level as bricoleurs in a globalised world, inventing new juxtapositions of materials and revealing new ways of seeing the world through the prism of local histories and traditions.

Published March 2012

Tooth and Nail

Grand Opening Exhibition
Adelaide
December 2011

Published March 2012

The Poliness wall drawings: not quite right

Artist Kerrie Poliness writes about her wall drawing projects, one of which appears in the exhibition 'Art, Pattern and Complexity' at RiAus, Adelaide from 16 February to 16 May 2012. The wall drawings begin with the artist's instructions but are produced with intuition rather than rulers.

Published March 2012

Pipilotti Rist I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
21 December 2011 – 4 March 2012

Published March 2012

Socially engaged FIFO art? IASKA's Spaced

Published March 2012

Shadows of meaning in the Eko Chamber: Eko Nugroho

Published March 2012