Verge Collective: Super Natural
At a bush residency west of Brisbane, six metropolitan photomedia artists gathered to explore the natural world. There were no plans to collaborate, though they saw [...]
Photography
Nina Hanley’s Surreal Realities
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 [...]
Stills Gallery to close June 2017
Sad news out yesterday that Stills Gallery, a leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and new media artists, is set to close in June this year. [...]
Sha Sarwari’s National Icon
I’ve written before about serendipity, and how often I experience moments of it. Today, being World Refugee Day, is no exception. I’ve just had the work of [...]
Max Dupain’s Record Breaker
If you think there’s no value in photography now that everyone’s got a camera in their pocket, you can think again. Yesterday, a landmark auction of Australian [...]
Emma Wright, Storyteller.
I’m the first to admit that a lot of fine art photography leaves me cold. For every Bill Henson or James Craig Annan, there’s an infinite number of Anne Geddes wannabes [...]
Robyn Stacey’s Cloud Land
There’s a perverse thing about humans that make two behavioral quirks a certainty: when we see a closed door, we immediately want to know what’s happening on [...]
America the Brave: Contemporary Indigenous American Art
The Fourth of July, American Independence Day, doesn’t hold much relevance in Australia, but the fact that it’s today does at least allow me an excuse to focus on [...]
David Lynch: Between Two Worlds
Blockbuster gallery openings in Brisbane are like…well, I guess they’re like big gallery opening nights everywhere – glamorous events chock full of [...]
The Little Things
“There’s a reason people build miniatures. Doesn’t matter if it’s guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It’s about [...]
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