On the ground with Our Mob in 2011

Cover of On the ground with Our Mob in 2011
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Tina Havelock Stevens: Nature Extemporize

The Substation

Review
Elizabeth Pearce

Published 15 December 2021
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WATER RITES

ACE Open, Tarntanya/Adelaide

Review
Lady Shania Richards

Published 15 December 2021
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WILAM BIIK

TarraWarra Museum of Art

Review
Bryan Andy

Published 15 December 2021
Guildhouse
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Numinosity

Contemporary Art Tasmania

Review
Eliza Burke

Published 15 November 2021
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Middle summer's spring and vandalism 'on fire’: Fiona Lee’s Unpreparable and Bushfire Brandalism

Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Review
Una Rey

Published 18 October 2021
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Shared House: Alex Martinis Roe and Madison Bycroft

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Sasha Grbich

Published 06 September 2021
NAVA
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FIELD NOTES

Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga, South Australia

Review
Julianne Pierce

Published 25 August 2021
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Out of Place

Drill Hall Gallery

Review
Ursula Cornelia de Leeuw

Published 25 August 2021

Terry Cleary was the Statewide Indigenous Community Artists Development (SICAD) Program Manger with Ananguku Arts and Culture from 2009-2011. He reflects on the potential power of Our Mob when it works.

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