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Author: Carrie McCarthy

In the words of every teacher I ever had, "she's got potential, if only she'd use it."
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Gabrielle Jones at Gallery Grefti, Italy

June 12, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Blue Mountains-based artist Gabrielle Jones is currently enjoying two things I’m envious of: an Italian summer, and the very warm reception of her work at a solo exhibition at Gallery Grefti, in the Italian town of Umbertide. Not. Jealous. At. … Continue reading Gabrielle Jones at Gallery Grefti, Italy

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Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company

June 1, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent consumer of their music – not because I dislike … Continue reading Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company

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Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC

May 28, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that the genre’s real tragedies are the ones that happened … Continue reading Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC

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Victoria Reichelt’s Precipice at This Is No Fantasy

May 23, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

If you’ve grabbed the 20th anniversary issue of Art Collector, you’ll already know that Victoria Reichelt has a new exhibition of works commemorating the quaint and passé opening next month. It’s hard to miss her, given she’s the covergirl. Knot 2017 makes … Continue reading Victoria Reichelt’s Precipice at This Is No Fantasy

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Nina Hanley’s Surreal Realities

April 16, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

Nina Hanley is an emerging artist from Canungra in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Entirely self-taught, Hanley won her first painting award in Grade One – the prize being a McDonald’s hamburger, a moment she still considers one of her finest. After … Continue reading Nina Hanley’s Surreal Realities

Exhibition & Catalogue Essays, Visual Arts Writing1 Comment

Helle Cook – Notion of Home

March 2, 2017July 18, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

What defines the notion of home? This is what Danish-born, Brisbane-based artist Helle Cook investigates in her painting practice. A recent graduate of Queensland College of Art (QCA), Cook’s works linger on the verge between abstraction and figuration, both recognisable and … Continue reading Helle Cook – Notion of Home

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Christian Flynn: Within the realm of a dying sun…

February 9, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

I bloody love an artist who can cut through the bullshit in an industry that is so predisposed to bullshit and present complex theories in a way that even a muppet like me can understand. I mean, I legitimately understood bugger … Continue reading Christian Flynn: Within the realm of a dying sun…

Exhibition & Catalogue Essays, Visual Arts Writing1 Comment

Paul Ryan’s Forgotten Histories

January 13, 2017July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

When Paul Ryan paints the landscape, it’s not the scenery so much as the forgotten histories of his local area that he seeks to explore. Never straying far from his home base in Thirroul, a suburb of Wollongong noted for … Continue reading Paul Ryan’s Forgotten Histories

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Tim McMonagle at Edwina Corlette Gallery

December 21, 2016July 15, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

There is something eerily familiar about the trees that have begun to sprout up in Tim McMonagle’s work in recent times. An artist who has spent almost two decades disseminating human nature’s foibles and absurdities through his whimsical compositions, McMonagle … Continue reading Tim McMonagle at Edwina Corlette Gallery

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The Ambience Store Project

December 18, 2016July 18, 2024 Carrie McCarthy

The Ambience Store Project was a year long program of exhibitions featuring emerging and unrepresented Australian artists held at Queensland design institution Ambience Store. After a national call out, 27 artists were selected across nine exhibitions that comprised painting, sculpture, … Continue reading The Ambience Store Project

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