ACE Open
Published 10 May 2021
Santos Museum of Economic Botany and The Deadhouse (Mortuary Building), Botanic Gardens of South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
Published 14 April 2021
Samstag Museum of Art
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Published April 2021
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Published 12 March 2021
McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Exhibition review Received Richard Grayson Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide South Australia 12 July - 6 August 1995
Australians have a natural thirst for objects of grand scale, however ridiculous their theme or location or context. From big sandfly, big axe to big oyster and beyond, we are the big desert island that experiences big wets and big dries, little wonder someone made a Big Tap to remind us...we are big drinkers.
Published December 1995
In the trading card world there are collectors, dealers, curators, critics, interested observers, and of course various magazines. Does this world sound familiar? Looks at the role of collecting...
Exhibition review Birds Have Fled Angela Valamanesh Univsersity of South Australia Art Museum 7 September - 2 October 1995
Monash University Gallery presented Fashion, Decor, Interiors, curated by Natalie King 7 June - 15 July 1995, high-lighting aspects of advertising, mass production and architectural design through the work of Lyndal Walker, Tony Clark and Stephen Bram -- extracts from the exhibition catalogue.
Exhibition review Active Agents: Aids Art in Australia Anthony Babicci, Bronwyn Bancroft, Simon Carver, Eddie Hackenberg, Ian Hartley, Leonore Lancaster, David McDiarmid, Ross Moore, Marcus O'Donnell, Scott Redford, Celia Roach, Gary Shinfield, Jackie Stockdale, Andrew Thomas-Clark, Hiram To, Julia Topliss, John Turner, David Urquart Curators Jill Bennett and John Turner University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston 11 May - 9 June 1995
Examines the 1995 poster for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. How appropriate though, at the moment when Mardi Gras had successfully commodified itself as a cultural event, that its key representation should be through international glamour product photography.
Collections of any kind require patience, luck, money, space, time and dedication.....
Big things have the power to make real the stuff of dreams. They have the power to make us stop at places we would never have dreamed of visiting. Grand kitsch is both art and beyond.
Exhibition review Litteraria Simryn Gill and Robert MacPherson Artists in residence at the South Australian Museum 16 September - 31 December 1995
Kitsch is a kind of creole. It quotes and mixes references from quite unrelated sources, dresses in wildly unsuitable materials, then tries to insinuate itself using childhood wiles.
I confess to a feeling of great affection for Mary MacKillop (1842 - 1909), vernacular culture and kitsch, and great enthusiasm for the idea of an Australian Vatican - an extravagant museum which is also a major site of pilgrimage.
