Brisbane-based artist Emma Lindsay has made a solid career out of documenting the damage wrecked by people on the natural world. Often it makes for confronting work, as she presents the numerous species now extinct or endangered due to climate … Continue reading Emma Lindsay & the Great Barrier Reef | Anthropocene Project
At first glance, Belem Lett’s paintings appear like highly sophisticated versions of Rorschach ink blots. It’s only on closer inspection the you notice the tiny inconsistencies between the two halves, indicating the works aren’t resultant of folding the image over … Continue reading Belem Lett at Sydney Contemporary
From the long sandy beaches of Western Australia, to the mangroves and saltmarshes of Arnhem Land, Australians have a profound connection to the coast. For many, it beckons us with the promise of salt spray and beach cricket, and zinc … Continue reading Coast at Edwina Corlette Gallery
First, it’s the capture of light that draws your attention, refracted across the canvas like rippled water in a creek. Then it’s the way colour and movement wrestle in undulating lines, dragging and splitting pigment into huge writhing forms. Physical … Continue reading Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
Art Almanac, July 2017 There is something ill-defined and unsettling about the women who feature throughout Heidi Yardley’s oeuvre. Begun as collages which then act as source material for larger paintings and drawings, each figure is a multilayered hybrid of … Continue reading Heidi Yardley: The Sinking Belle
Reviewing Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company was never going to be an easy task. Now something of an Australian theatre classic, it examines the social impulse to violence within Australian culture by delving into the aftermath of a young girl’s rape and murder during … Continue reading Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company
Perhaps I’ve been watching too much The Handmaid’s Tale (NB: I have DEFINITELY been watching too much The Handmaid’s Tale), but the blokes who appear in Clara Adolphs’s Creatures get more sinister with every viewing. It’s something to do with … Continue reading Clara Adolphs’s Creatures
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do know Gilbert & Sullivan because, well, who … Continue reading Opera Q’s Ruddigore at QPAC
Commissioned especially for World Science Festival Brisbane 2016, Curios? brings together contemporary artists whose imaginations are stirred by the mysterious beauty of museum collections. Whether resurrecting almost-lost Indigenous weaving techniques, or acknowledging the potential for new and more culturally appropriate … Continue reading Curios? for World Science Festival Brisbane
Remember when women of influence were found in the pages of history, and not in an Instagram feed of acai bowls and hashtags? When young girls might have drawn inspiration from Joan of Arc, Simone de Beauvoir and Marie Curie, … Continue reading Linde Ivimey: the Shape of Things
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