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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Homeless Jesus brings out the, err, bad Samaritan in North Carolina residents…
Between Tony Matelli’s The Sleepwalker sculpture freaking out the students at Wellesley College, and a homeless Jesus upsetting a neighbourhood in North Carolina, the [...]
Planet Red Earth
In honour of World Earth Day, I thought I’d take you on a wander through the work of Red Earth, an international environmental art group whose core practice revolves [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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