A Dual Aesthetic

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Older Than Language

Salamanca Arts Centre

Review
Seán Kelly

Published 07 September 2020
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Cognitive Dissidents: Reasons to be Cheerful

Griffith University Art Museum

Review
Louise R. Mayhew

Published 04 September 2020
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Connected online: New art for new times
Review
Julianne Pierce

Published 14 August 2020
QAGOMA
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The virtual world of the Aboriginal art market in 2020
Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 12 August 2020
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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
Desert Mob
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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
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2020 Adelaide//International

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Chloé Wolifson

Published 29 March 2020

Exhibition Review Patmos Series Paintings Jules Sher Perth Galleries Western Australia

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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.

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Cakes for Show: The Last Great Undigested Art
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Kitsch or Kind: Representations of Aborigines in Popular Art
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Much contemporary Aboriginal art functions in the inappropriate melding of two visual art traditions and is kitsch within the given meaning within the article.

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