What Are You Looking At?
It’s hard to believe you can capture a person’s vulnerability when they’re hidden behind a horsehead mask, but that is exactly what Melbourne-based [...]
Child’s Play
I was disappointed during last week’s GOMA visit to see that Michael Parekowhai’s lovely elephant statue The World Turns had been cordoned off. I’m not [...]
Mad About the Boyd
Last year at APT7 at GOMA, I claimed this little baby as my favourite piece in the exhibition – It was hanging in the very first room I walked into, and although it [...]
That Painting is Rubbish!
Remember what it felt like when you were little to have your balloon burst, or the icecream fall off the cone? And you know what it feels like now as an adult to knock over a [...]
Debris, Detritus and Delicacy at Anchorage Museum
If you attended APT7 at Brisbane’s GOMA last year, you may remember this ethereal work from Kiwi artist Joanna Langford: Born in Gisborne, New Zealand (just like me!) [...]
A Studio on Bowery
The closest thing to a religious experience for me is to visit an artist’s studio. Like darkened old cathedrals, I find them intimidating places full of the thoughts and [...]
Ludovic Florent’s “Poussières d’étoiles”
The most creative thing I’ve ever made involving flour is a banana cake, and even then the truly creative part was actually in the way I used chocolate icing to hide [...]
Dissecting Ancient Rome
Had you told me when I signed up to study Roman Art & Archaeology as part of my current degree that I’d be spending a Saturday morning looking at surgical [...]
A Primitive View of Art
What came first – the craftsman or the artist? It’s a question I seem to be constantly returning to at the moment. The words seem obvious and intertwined – [...]
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