Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
1 March – 30 June 2019
By Giles Fielke
Australian photography is at an interesting moment. More than ever, it is compelled to respond not only to the present reality that the average Australian is now considered either illegitimate, illegal, fraudulent, or irreparably corrupted, but also to the fact that these same problems afflict the efficacy of photography as a documenta...
2 March - 5 May 2019
2 March - 19 May 2019
8 December 2018 - 5 May 2019
8 December 2018 - 30 June 2019
by David Wlazlo
"Compromised" was the adjective staff used to describe the experience at Warrnambool Art Gallery (The WAG) when I went to visit it las...
ReadingRoom
13 March – 27 April 2019
By Ella Cattach
There are three Dianes—two portrait subjects, one spectre—in Emma Phillips' current exhibition of large-scale, predominantly black-and-white photographs which takes its title, Too much to dream, from a song by The Electric Prunes.
The first Diane, of Untitled (Diane washing dishes at her father's house) and the unfocussed, tightly cropped colour triptych Untitled (Diane on her bed, smiling), both...
217-219 Cotham Road, Kew
7 David Street, Carlton
By Paris Lettau
In recent years, a new subculture has surfaced in Australian art. It lacks any aspiration to be recognised by mainstream public art institutions and has formed a self-conscious avant-garde with "arm's-length" distance (sometimes literally) from major museums like Tony Ellwood's National Gallery of Victoria. The latest expression of this subculture is the freshly minted $15.8 million Lyon Ho...
Bendigo Art Gallery 16 March – 14 July 2019
By Giles Fielke
I often return to an odd little sentence in Robert Walser's microscripts, a thought captured that he then jotted down on a scrap of paper sometime before 1956: 'The failure to prize the chance to spend time in a cosmopolitan city highly enough to refrain from giving it up in favour of an upstart one-horse town.' Cosmopolitanism, seen today, is increasingly a crowded nightmare pre-occupie...
Gertrude Contemporary
8 February – 23 March 2019
By Sophie Knezic
'Oh my country! We will no longer have to go searching through the history of ancient peoples for worthy subjects on which to practise our brushwork...No, no people's history offers me anything so great, so sublime as the Tennis Court Oath, which I am to paint.' So opined the 18th century painter and revolutionary Jacques-Louis David, after securing the commission from the Société des Amis de...
Australian Galleries, 28 & 35 Derby Street, Collingwood26 February 2019 — 17 March 2019
Negative Press, Factory 8/102 Henkel Street, Brunswick16 February – 9 March 2019
By Victoria Perin
Exhibitions are usually talkative. They start off with the artist's or curator's statements and then usually just chat away with their personalised terminology and their free-associations. I intended to review the Australian Gallerie...
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