Reviews
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JamFactory Icon 2013, Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura
JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, 8 August – 28 September 2013
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Tony Woods: An Archive
Art Information, 2013
Editor: Andrew Gaynor; Introduction: Tony Woods; Essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenisch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson
Editor: Andrew Gaynor; Introduction: Tony Woods; Essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenisch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson
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55th Venice Biennale: The Encylopedic Palace
55th International Art Exhibition, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
1 June – 24 November 2013
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Heartland: Contemporary art from South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
21 June – 8 September 2013
21 June – 8 September 2013
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5th Auckland Triennial: “If you were to live here …”
The Auckland Art Gallery
10 May – 11 August 2013
10 May – 11 August 2013
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Roy Ananda: The Devourer; Sandra Uray-Kennett: A Knights Tour through a Rent in the Wall
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Gallery and Project Space, Adelaide
26 April – 26 May 2013
26 April – 26 May 2013
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19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts: Resistance is Futile
19th International Symposium of Electronic Arts
7 – 16 June 2013
7 – 16 June 2013
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My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
1 June – 7 October 2013
1 June – 7 October 2013
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The archive in the contemporary
The artworks of Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson each draw on archival material for subject matter, for inspiration, and to develop new work that harks back and forward at the same time.
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Louise Bourgeois: Late Works
Curator: Jason Smith Heide Museum of Modern Art 21 November 2012 – 11 March 2013
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Mouths and Meaning Bronwyn Platten, Sarah Coggrave and others
Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide 1 February – 2 March 2013
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New Olds - Design between Tradition and Innovation
Curator: Volker Albus RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 7 December 2012 – 9 March 2013
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Sculpture@Bathers
Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle 16 March – 1 April 2013
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Testing Ground
Curator: Julie Gough Artists: The 1491s, Ólöf Björnsdóttir, Trudi Brinckman, Darren Cook, Rebecca Dagnall, Sue Kneebone, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Jeroen Offerman, Perdita Phillips, r e a, Keren Ruki, Christian Thompson, Martin Walch, Siying Zhou Long Gallery, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart 14 March – 28 April 2013
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tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula
Curator: John Neylon Flinders University Art Museum 28 February – 28 April 2013
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Go figure: contemporary Chinese portraiture
Curator: Claire Roberts
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
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7th Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
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7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
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We don’t need a map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert
Fremantle Arts Centre
17 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Curators, Erin Coates, Kathleen Sorensen and Gabrielle Sullivan
17 November 2012 – 20 January 2013
Curators, Erin Coates, Kathleen Sorensen and Gabrielle Sullivan
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A world between: a survey of prints by Milan Milojevic
Curators: Maria Kunda, Paul Zika Plimsoll Gallery
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania
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Build me a city
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites with Christine Garnaut, Julie Collins
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
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9th Shanghai Biennale: Re-Activation
Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie Co-curators: Boris Groys, Jens Hoffmann, Johnson Chang Shanghai Power Station of Art and other venues 2 October 2012 – 31 March 2013
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Beata Batorowicz – Tales within Historical Spaces
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 1 September – 28 October 2012
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Bungaree: the First Australian
Curator: Djon Mundine Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 1 September – 25 November 2012 then touring
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Roads cross: contemporary directions in Australian art
Curators: Vivonne Thwaites, Fiona Salmon, Anita Angel Flinders University City Gallery 29 June – 26 August 2012
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In a silent way
Curator: Matt Warren Laura Altman, Monica Brooks, Nicolas Bullen, Darren Cook, Gail Priest, Lawrence English, Samaan Fieck, Joel Stern Contemporary Art Spaces, Hobart 28 July – 26 August 2012
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Remarking | Remaking: Contemporary Australian Drawing Connections
Curators: Abdullah M. I. Syed and Wenmin Li Nicole Barakat, Denis Beaubois, Nick Brown, Muamer Cajic, Anie Nheu, Ana Pollack, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Marikit Santiago, Shay Tobin, Teo Treloar Remarking | Remaking Community Project Nicole Barrakat in collaboration with Blacktown Indian Subcontinent Women’s Group Blacktown Arts Centre 20 July – 1 September 2012
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Pat Brassington: Á Rebours
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne 11 August - 23 September 2012
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Conversations in ellipsis: an exercise in affect & association… time & (e)motion studies, or things unsaid
Curator: Lisa Harms Adelaide Botanic Garden, FELTspace, SASA Gallery 31 July – 26 August 2012
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A Universe of Small Truths: Julie Henderson
AEAF (Australian Experimental Art Foundation), Adelaide 20 July – 18 August 2012
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dOCUMENTA (13)
Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Kassel, Germany 9 June – 16 September 2012
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Contemporary Australia: Women
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane 21 April – 22 July 2012
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Theatre of the World
Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in collaboration with TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), Hobart 23 June 2012 – 8 April 2013
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18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
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18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012
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unDisclosed: second National Indigenous Art Triennial
Curator: Carly Lane National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 11 May – 22 July 2012
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Camouflage: Visual Art and Design in Disguise
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland 15 June – 7 October 2012
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No Added Sugar: Engagement and Self-determination
Curator: Rusaila Bazlamit Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 12 May – 18 July 2012
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The Kick Ass Painting Show
Curators: Brigid Noone, Ben Leslie Fontanelle, Adelaide 24 May – 30 June 2012
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In-Habit (Project Another Country)
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 22 June – August 2012
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South Australia Illustrated: Colonial painting in the Land of Promise
Curator: Jane Hylton Art Gallery of South Australia 2 June – 5 August 2012
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We are all Flesh: Berlinde De Bruckyere
ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne 2 June – 29 July 2012
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How did Aborigines invent the idea of contemporary art?
Brenda L Croft, artist, curator and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW, reviews and finds gaps in the big pink book put together over many years by Ian McLean that collects iconic bits of writing about Aboriginal art and knits them together.
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Indigenous Art Code: cracking the code
The Director of the Indigenous Art Code John Oster explains the Code, how it works, why it is needed and who isn't complying.
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Chiharu Shiota: State of Being Sue Saxon and Jane Becker: All that is solid melts into air
TarraWarra Museum of Art 25 February - 27 May 2012
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FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography
Perth, Western Australia 17 March – 15 April 2012
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Glen Skien: MYTHO-POETIC
The Webb Gallery Queensland College of Art Griffith University 19 – 28 April 2012
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Obscured by Light: Pamela Lofts and Kim Mahood
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs 25 February – 25 March 2012
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Panorama: are we there yet?
Daniel Boyd, Nadine Christensen, Sarah Goffman, Fiona Lowry, Bennett Miller, Arlo Mountford, Joan Ross, Caroline Rothwell, Bernie Slater, Jemima Wyman Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW 27 January 2011 – 13 March 2012