Published 04 January 2021
Newmarch Gallery
ANCA Gallery, Canberra
Published 28 December 2020
The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre, Mount Gambier
Published 08 December 2020
Published 30 November 2020
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Exhibition Review Patmos Series Paintings Jules Sher Perth Galleries Western Australia
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.
Published December 1995
Exhibition review Forrest Place During the Time of the Fly Plague and Other Paintings 1993-1995 Thomas Horeau Perth Western Australia
Exhibition review Birds Have Fled Angela Valamanesh Univsersity of South Australia Art Museum 7 September - 2 October 1995
The days of the Tamworth Festival are marked with ceremonies. Stars place their hands into cement and history in the Hands of Fame Park. At the rear of Maguire's pub the popular alternative Noses of Fame honours famous noses.
Much contemporary Aboriginal art functions in the inappropriate melding of two visual art traditions and is kitsch within the given meaning within the article.
Discussion with the artist Ray Hughes about issues that have impacted on his art practice. Biographical details also included.
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...
Are gossamer wings set to supplant shoulder pads as signifiers of feminist power? Shopping malls in middle class suburbs are now sprouting fairy shops where, for only a few dollars, little girls and grown-up ones too, can sprout fairy wings that temporarily release them from the masculine world around them.
Exhibition review Defrosting Familiar Tales Jo Crawford, Bev Hogg Jam Factory Gallery Adelaide South Australia 7 July - 27 August 1995
That these same institutions have never seriously attempted to digest the great crafty, feminine art of traditional cake decoration is more regrettable. Icons, after all, are as valued as the most avant-garde compostion if made of oil paint and gold leaf on wood. When future generations visit our hallowed aesthetic halls, let them meet cake!
Issues of stereo-typing, conforming behaviour and fun and practicality are looked at in an observation of an MG driver.
When I was an art critic, I quickly grew to dislike the word 'taste'. It was a convenient tool used to dismiss reviews by people who didn't like what I had to say. Whenever I delivered a negative crit upon a widely revered artist, or a positive crit on a very minor figure, they complained that I was allowing my taste to undermine my professionalism.
