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Artwork 13: Australia in Colour
Vincent Namatjira is in the news and I have mining on my mind
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Review: Residue + Response | 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial
You know I am a huge textiles fan. This review won't come as a surprise at all but I did find something unexpected on my second visit.
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The Broken Hill update
There's something about this place, it gets under your skin. And the art is FANTASTIC. Plus some musical treats.
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Language and Belonging
Exploring the Italian migrant's experience in Filomena Coppola's solo exhibition at Mildura Arts Centre
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Lands and Waters
A dual review of Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 and the National Wool Museum’s On the Land: Our Story Retold
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Micro reviewing
Imagine you live in a small inland town at the junction of two rivers. You work part time for a tiny newspaper; one day in the recent weeks you submit…
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Review: Here/EverPresent by Nici Cumpston
This month I visited the inland city of Broken Hill to see some decolonial museum practices in action
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Artwork 12: Elizabeth Riddell with black Cat
Pictures at a (library) exhibition in New South Wales
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Artwork 9: Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II
She painted one swollen stamen and the male critics had a field day...
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Review: The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial
Or, what I saw in five hours at QAGOMA
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Exhibition reviews: Speedway and Mildura Atrocity Exhibition
Cars, violence, the end of the world: these exhibitions care about the climate but they also want you to think beyond it
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There is no progressive 'No' in Australia's referendum
For non-Indigenous Australians, there is only 'Yes' and the work that needs to keep being done after the vote.
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