Andre Lipscombe: BOO!

Nyisztor Studio 1 - 23 October 2011

Published March 2012

2112: Imagining the Future

Curator: Linda Williams RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

Published March 2012

A Meme is born

Adelaide writer and artist Peter Drew looks at various examples of recent street art and the many ways it is circulated and reproduced as a meme in a wired and globally connected world. "As it turns out," he says, "memetics can be very useful in understanding the patterns of street art."

Published March 2012

Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric

Curator: Ruth McDougall with Maud Page and Russell Storer Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 1 October 2011 – 5 February 2012

Published March 2012

Openwork patterns: Love Lace

Powerhouse Museum Curator of Textiles Lindie Ward discusses the groundbreaking 'Love Lace' exhibition on show at the Powerhouse until April 2013. A globally sourced series of works it showcases 130 designs for openwork structures from 20 countries.

Published March 2012

Revealed: Emerging Aboriginal Artists from Western Australia

Curator: Thelma John
Gallery Central, Perth
24 October - 12 November 2011

Published March 2012

Shadowbox: The Desert Paintings

Liverpool Street Gallery 3 – 23 December 2011

Published March 2012

Prophecy, pattern, progeny: Champagne Valentine, Mitchell Whitelaw, Peter Miller, Tracy Cornish

Published 01 March 2012

The inchworm revisited

Artist, writer and honorary visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex in England Paul Brown sketches out the long intertwining history of the relationship between C.P. Snow's two cultures - art and science, design and mathematics, beauty and computation, and extrapolates upon Lady Ada
Lovelace's famous words: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves."

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

Australian art abroad: Doing it better

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