McLean Edwards, Delightfully Dishevelled
I like a freshly made bed as much as the next person, but nothing is as inviting as that same bed the next morning just after you’re out of it, all messed up and warm with [...]
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Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Winners Announced
An update, and I’m more than happy to say my predictions were completely incorrect! Here are the winners: Fiona Lowry has taken out the Archibald Prize for 2014 with [...]
Archibald Prize 2014
Has anyone ever likened the Archibald Prize to the Melbourne Cup before? Someone must have – they are as alike as two annual events from two completely unrelated [...]
Linde Ivimey’s La Fiesta Brava
In Spain, the spectacle of the bullfight is known colloquially as la fiesta brava. It doesn’t take a highly skilled linguist to figure out that translates to [...]
An Open Letter on the Future of Arts Funding
Linde Ivimey, Bone Healer
Sometimes you get a look at the inner workings of a person’s brain and what you glimpse in there is so unlike the mind of any other you’ve ever seen, that it [...]
Tove Witzerman Langridge – with a name like that, you’d best be an artist…
It’s a rare privilege to be able to see firsthand an artist’s journey from tentative preteen to self-assured expressionist, but that’s what happens when your oldest [...]
The Little Art Museum That Could
All good things must come to an end, and so it was with the Danie Mellor retrospective at UQ Art Museum this week. The heavy gilt frames, beaded skulls and taxidermy animals [...]
Oh Boy, Boy Beardy!
Comedienne Minnie Pearl once said that “kissing a man with a beard is like going on a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little brush to get there.” The [...]
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 [...]
