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Heidi Yardley: The Aesthetic of Nostalgia
There is always something of an irony when an artist who has been quietly fermenting a specific style suddenly finds themselves as part of a broader ‘movement.’
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Adam Cullen’s Ghosts
There are ghosts aplenty on these walls.
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Rhys Lee: Molten Birth
Making art is a journey. In Rhys Lee’s case this is true in both a figurative and literal sense.
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Planeta Inquietante
Pat Brassington’s most recent works have an uncanny familiarity. The furnishings are decidedly of a past era, strangely molded and far from timeless, the strange detachable armrest, the red vinyl, we are cast back to a future of strange potentialities, it could almost be Lucille Ball directed by David Cronenberg. As is often the case…
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Armstrong’s Anatomia
In olden times it was often believed that the egg or spermatozoon in the human reproductive cycle contained what was called a homunculus, a diminutive but fully formed human being.
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The Goth Within
Catalogue essay for Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Gallery, 2008
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Strange Elements: Australian Art in Tokyo
Last year Australian artists were the honoured guests in two major exhibitions in Tokyo.
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Nick Mangan: Apocalypse Culture
Watching the evolution of Nick Mangan’s work over recent years has been not unlike watching a mutant virus growing and evolving everyday.
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Gareth Sansom: Sensorial Overload
It is hard to imagine, given the cornucopia of cultural references in this brain-crunching, sensorial-overloaded exhibition that the artist claims that he was once aggressively anti-intellectual when it came to painting.
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Irene Hanenbergh: Voodoo Technology
Irene Hanenbergh is by no means an easy artist to define. Her work manages to appear both old-world and other- worldly as it straddles a realm somewhere between landscape and fantasy, the painterly and graphic illustration, old style painting and new technologies.