Monica Rohan’s Fall to Grace
It’s a funny sort of self portraiture that keeps the face hidden. I’ve never fully understood why an artist does it. Is it because they don’t want the work [...]
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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 [...]
Fashion as Art…so…FART?
Oh, blerg. It’s ‘fashion as art’ season again. This happens every few years – the major public galleries around the country throw their doors and [...]
Harvest: A Conflict
It’s a little-known fact that art galleries and museums have in their calendars a season known as Meh. It’s little-known because…well…I just made it [...]
NAIDOC Week 2014
It’s NAIDOC Week! Held annually from the first Sunday in July, NAIDOC Week is a celebration of all things awesome about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, [...]
Queensland Museum – backstage pass
“…there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works…and of course no reason why anyone should care…unless you are curious, in which case I [...]
Conservation at QAGOMA
Perhaps it was the freshly milled timber reminding me so vividly of my grandfather. Or maybe it was the containers of gold leaf and rabbit wax, the delicate resin [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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