Foundations Edge: Artists and technology

QUT Art Museum
16 March – 26 May 2013

Published June 2013

Gulumbu Yunupingu (1943-2012)

People in Nhulunbuy still talk wonderingly about the last days of Gulumbu Yunupingu’s life. Something happened. Something changed. For nine days the monolithic concrete hospital in the sterile mining town threw open its doors and for nine days the Yolngu ceremony ground flowed in.

Published June 2013

New Olds - Design between Tradition and Innovation

Curator: Volker Albus
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
7 December 2012 – 9 March 2013

Published June 2013

Louise Bourgeois: Late Works

Curator: Jason Smith
Heide Museum of Modern Art
21 November 2012 – 11 March 2013

Published June 2013

Rainforest identity (past and future)

Napolean Oui is a Cairns-based, mid-career, Djabugay artist and a proud advocate of the rainforest art style unique to Far North Queensland. 2012 was a breakthrough year for him, he did a residency at Studio PM with Paul Machnik and others in Montreal, developed new work at Djumbunji Press for a solo show at Kickarts Contemporary Arts in Cairns during the Art Fair, AND sold work to the National Gallery of Australia.

Published June 2013

Rekospective

Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri curator and lecturer Jirra Harvey traces the career of self-taught graffiti and studio artist Reko Rennie. He uses a traditional Kamilaroi patterning in neon and in graffiti as a contemporary statement of sovereignity. Harvey says: "The subtext to such works is a running narrative on government practices that work to control and restrain Aboriginal communities and the subsequent rebellion of the people."

Published June 2013

Sculpture@Bathers

Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson
Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle
16 March – 1 April 2013

Published June 2013

tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula

Curator: John Neylon
Flinders University Art Museum
28 February – 28 April 2013

Published June 2013

The limits of criticism

Anthropologist John Carty casts his eyes over the last ten years of writing on Desert art, mostly in newspapers, and finds many cliches and inconsistencies. He asks: "Where are the fine-grained localised art histories, the rich biographies of our most interesting and important individual artists? Where are their voices?" And replies: "They are still waiting in the Desert."

Published June 2013

Ken Thaiday Senior, Darnley Man

Exhibitions Manager at Cairns Regional Gallery Justin Bishop tells the rich story of how Ken Thaiday Sr. came to be a major Torres Strait Islander artist. In August 2013, Cairns Regional Gallery, in partnership with Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), will be presenting a survey exhibition of Ken Thaiday Sr.’s work.

Published June 2013

Ghostnets go global, and local

Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been abandoned at sea, lost accidentally, or deliberately discarded. The GhostNet Project, which began on islands and in communities around the top of Australia, uses the nets to make artworks, to raise awareness of marine pollution, to be creative. Awareness of Ghostnets is on the rise both nationally and internationally.

Published June 2013

Carving into Country: The work of Badger Bates

Published June 2013