The Virtual in Hand

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The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting
Review
John Kean

Quentin Sprague
Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2020

 

Published 29 June 2020
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Desert Aboriginal art centres adapt to the pandemic
Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 14 May 2020
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2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres

Art Gallery of South Australia | Adelaide Botanic Garden

Review
Gemma Weston

Published 05 April 2020
Curiocity Brisbane (Mulberry Seed Comms)
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2020 Adelaide//International

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Chloé Wolifson

Published 29 March 2020
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Cementa19

Kandos, New South Wales

Review
Marco Marcon

Published 05 February 2020
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Therese Ritchie: Burning Hearts

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Review
Chips Mackinolty

Published 05 February 2020
NAVA
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Kulinmaya! Keep Listening Everybody!

Mumu Mike Williams

Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 01 December 2019
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OzAsia 2019

Adelaide Festival Centre and other venues

Review
Anna O'Loughlin

Published 29 November 2019

Exhibition review Armorial: Dianne Longley 8 September - 3 October 1995 Adelaide Central Gallery, SA

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Harry's work immediately identifies the object as a site of meaning. It is fair to say that Harry is strongly opposed to any restriction or taboo upon what he may represent, particularly from the arena of representing the female object or gender.

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Since 1927, the idea that the motor cycle is synonymous with assertive and unmediated masculinity has been enlarged and expanded through a broad range of visual, literal and cinematic imagery to the point where a machine which was once acclaimed as a means of transport has been transformed into a gendered cultural icon, an object of and for masculine display.

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Rox de Luca's exhibition of 19 men portrayed in 'All Meat No Veg' were all of men known to her. What did the portraits reveal about the sitters?

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Blokes and Sheds
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They Are Not Photographs: Natalie Lowrie
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The images are selections from a body of work called flamingharlots@trashed, created by Sydney based photographer Natalie Lowrie. The images, digitally retouched photos of Natalie's circle of friends and acquaintances were exhibited at the Polymorph Gallery at Newtown.

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Image Bank: Works by Various Artists
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Series of works by Tyrone Townsend, Victoria Straub, Polixeni Papapetrou, Phil George and Simon Cardwell. Large format and mainly colour images.

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Figures of Elongation
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Using illustrations from a technical manual of the 1940s `the author examines the working male figure in popular iconography focusing on masculine representation in the visual arts and its link to the means of production.

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Observing Father's Day in a Good Weekend
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