Shadowbox: The Desert Paintings

Liverpool Street Gallery 3 – 23 December 2011

Published March 2012

Fractal food

John Walker is the founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD. In Fractal Food he discusses the marvel of fractal forms (complex shapes which look more or less the same at a wide variety of scale factors) as they are seen in a rather wonderful vegetable - the chou Romanesco.

Published March 2012

Socially engaged FIFO art? IASKA's Spaced

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

Helen Fuller: Bless this mesh

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

Pipilotti Rist I Packed the Postcard in my Suitcase

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

Published March 2012

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

Published 01 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

Revealed: Emerging Aboriginal Artists from Western Australia

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

Published March 2012

Caroline Durré: Reforming the earth

Drawing Studio and Program Co-ordinator at Monash University Stephen Garrett examines the optically challenging artworks of Caroline Durré which blend patterns and perspectives.

Published March 2012

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