Is my art leaving on a jet plane?
With the rise of art fairs and biennales internationally, Australian artists are competing in global shopping malls that dictate the market for good or ill. As…
New ceramicists don’t care to be cool
What is driving the rediscovery of ceramics, their renewed collectability and place in the museum environment? It is not surprising as part of this year’s Art…
Alex Seton: Refoulement
Island dreams and hopes get shipwrecked with Seton’s new sculptures, which continue his interest in the issue of asylum seekers. Seton captures deflated hopes with his…
Beyogmos: Mai Nguyen-Long
LABORATORY FOR LABELS: As human beings we have an automatic compulsion to assign ‘things’ a place, compelled to tether a person and their actions to prescribed…
UnBound, Yuchengco Museum Manila
BOUNCE: UnBound (Yuchengco Museum, 24 January-20 February 2013) explored how culture can move beyond physical boundaries and the cartographic disposition of nation-based exhibitions and pre-packaged notions…
Trans/portable (Manila)
With its title Trans/portable, this exhibition at the independent MO_space Manila (4 August – 2 September 2012), explored how culture is carried beyond cartographic or physical…
Australians slicing up the Big Apple
Brisbane artist Donna Marcus was in residence when the New York Green Street Studio’s founded Robert Jacks recently passed away, just weeks before his retrospective, Robert…