Like a Chant

Cover of Like a Chant
1.272
OzAsia Festival Visual Arts Program

Various venues, Adelaide

Review
Margot Osborne

Published 12 November 2018
1.262
Then and Now | Making : Memory

6–21 October 2018

Review
Craig Judd

Published 09 November 2018
1.124
Void

UTS Gallery, Sydney

Review
Larissa Behrendt

Published 24 October 2018
PICA 2
1.126
Limestone Coast Video Art Festival

Riddoch Art Gallery

Review
Eve Sullivan

Published 12 October 2018
1.126
TarraWarra Biennial: From Will to Form

TarraWarra Museum of Art

Review
Zara Sigglekow

Published 10 October 2018
1.126
Systematic

Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

Review
Seán Kelly

 

Published 08 October 2018
Artlink Subs Promo
1.128
Desert Mob 2018

Araluen Arts Centre

Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 27 September 2018
1.25
SALA Festival: Gerry Wedd, Julia McInerney, Aldo Iacobelli
Review
Eve Sullivan

Published 11 September 2018

Exhibition review Recent Work: Hossein Valamanesh 4-29 October 1995, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide SA

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