What seems to be now a Sydney College of the Arts highlight, the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, proudly showcases the…
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Claire Wigney: “I love accidents. I write poetry often and I always have, but writing in a notebook and then spelling out a poem on a sign are very different experiences. Oftentimes, when I was playing around with the sign and its message in my studio, the words felt very overt, or obvious and then a bit contrived.”
It’s hard to compensate for the long-lasting impacts that French colonialism has had on Tahiti and its surrounding islands with a single exhibition, but if I had to exhibit it, I would emphasise in all aspects of Gaugin’s paintings the confrontation, sinisterism and exploitation.
There is something to be said for the opportunity to look love right in the face, in broad daylight, surrounded by people but enchanted only by the one standing next to you.
Anyone who steps through the doors or visits the online sale can become a collector, experiencing art for its personal value and engaging in an aesthetic—rather than fiscal—experience.
In the insistence that Edwards and Wolinski placed on pulling apart Dobell’s otherwise unremarkable painting, we see a culture frantically insecure about itself, and needing to define itself within the rigid parameters of history and convention.
Queer zines were not just a creative outlet, nor an informational resource, but a revolutionary way of connecting and uniting Queers in a time when Queerness was heavily politicised and censored.
It is freeing to have an exhibition admit that maybe we don’t know the full story behind why objects were made, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the impact it had along the way.
Universalism is often a dangerous concept, but perhaps there’s something in the idea that shapes are a unit, something that we can construct a world of thought out of.
Today, the largest art fair in Australasia returns to Carriageworks for its first in-person showing since 2019 — what’s in it for students?
