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110%: Wet Nurse

c3 contemporary art space David Wlazlo

Luke Sands

Guzzler Helen O'Toole

Enter the Void

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia David Homewood

Views to Remember and Clock Face

c3 contemporary art space Giles Fielke

In Costume

Mejia Audrey Schmidt

Collection leads: John Scurry—small paintings

Geelong Gallery Marnie Edmiston

Collecting Comme

National Gallery of Victoria Rex Butler

Elizabeth Newman

Neon Parc City Francis Plagne

Preparation

Haydens Amelia Winata

Never the same river

Anna Schwartz Gallery Victoria Perin

Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Philip Brophy

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

Bendigo Art Gallery Matthew Linde

Fiona Foley: Who are these strangers and where are they going?

Ballarat International Foto Biennale Maddee Clark

Karrabing Film Collective: The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland

KINGS Artist Run Giles Fielke

SERIAL

McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery Aneta Trajkoski

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MADA Gallery Philip Brophy

Steaphan Paton: Nullius in Verba

STATION Isabel White

Nessun Posto

Trocadero Art Space Max Koetsier

John Young: Silent Transformations

ARC ONE Gallery Pascalle Bailey

Andrée van Schaik: Paintings

Neon Parc City Yi Fu

Athena Thebus and Chloe Corkran: Drippy Rock

TCB art inc. Camille Orel

Yusi Zang + Andre Franco: Altered Routine
Jacquie Owers-Gayst: { ~~~~~~~~~ }

Blindside Kate Loncar

Bri Hammond: Nuoto Da Sola (I Swim Alone)

Brunswick Street Gallery Julia Onufreichuk

Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang

National Gallery of Victoria Wen Xiao

Relics of Survival

Bus Projects Anador Walsh

Bauhaus Now!

Buxton Contemporary Celine Saoud

Rosslynd Piggott: Gardenia, gardenia and vapour window

Sutton Gallery Suyeon Park

Return Flight MEL>HKG

The Blender Studios Ari Tampubolon

Emily Floyd: Anti-Totalitarian Vectors

Anna Schwartz Gallery Riley Bennett

On Vulnerability and Doubt

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Ella Cattach

George Egerton-Warburton, also known as ,

Heide Museum of Modern Art Helen O'Toole

I will never run out of lies nor love

Bus Projects Victoria Perin

FEM-aFFINITY

Arts Project Australia Anna Parlane

Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski: Solid Light

McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery Jane Eckett

Prima Materia

Bundoora Homestead Elyssia Bugg

Angelica Mesiti: ASSEMBLY

Venice Biennale Amelia Winata

Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Rex Butler

Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley: Temptation to Co-exist

Heide Museum of Modern Art Francis Plagne

Octopus 19: Ventriloquy

Gertrude Contemporary Audrey Schmidt

Michael Stevenson: Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183

Monash University Museum of Art Anna Parlane

Christian Thompson: Baya Gardiya

Australian Centre for the Moving Image Philip Brophy

Arlo Mountford: Deep Revolt

Shepparton Art Museum Sophie Knezic

Isabel Davies: Recent Geometric Constructions

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery Victoria Perin

Taryn Simon: Contraband

Anna Schwartz Gallery Chelsea Hopper

The Hand of Art

Tarrawarra Museum of Art Rex Butler

Amalia Lindo: Computer Shoulders

Centre for Contemporary Photography Stephen Palmer

Darren Sylvester: Carve A Future, Devour Everything, Become Something

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Giles Fielke

Compromise

Warrnambool Art Gallery David Wlazlo

Emma Phillips: Too Much to Dream

Reading Room Ella Cattach

The Museological Consciousness

Lyon Housemuseum Galleries | Meow Paris Lettau

Memo Review 01.

Perimeter Books | World Food Books | Monash University Museum of Art Memo Review

Tudors to Windsors

Bendigo Art Gallery Giles Fielke

Atlanta Eke: The Tennis Piece

Gertrude Contemporary Sophie Knezic

Papermade | John Nixon: Screenprints, Woodblocks & Unique Relief Prints

Australian Galleries | Negative Press Victoria Perin

Visions of Paradise

National Gallery of Victoria Francis Plagne

Daniel von Sturmer

Anna Schwartz Gallery Amelia Winata

Carny

Neon Parc Audrey Schmidt

Christian Marclay: The Clock

Australian Centre for the Moving Image Rex Butler

Marlene Gilson

Art Gallery of Ballarat Anna Parlane

Thanks for reading in 2018

Memo Review

Sweeney Reed and Strines Gallery

Heide Museum of Modern Art Victoria Perin

Katie West: warna (ground)

Caves Paris Lettau

Decadent (Im)Possibilities

AAANZ Conference 2018 - RMIT University Audrey Schmidt

Does the art exhibition have a future?

AAANZ Conference 2018 - RMIT University Memo Review

Mira Gojak and Takehito Koganezawa: The Garden of Forking Paths

Buxton Contemporary Rex Butler

Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design

Ian Potter Museum of Art Jane Eckett

Spencer Lai: A smile forms into a grimace | Matilda Davis: Too Many Dinner Parties

Bus Projects Francis Plagne

TEETH, GUMS, MACHINES, FUTURE, SOCIETY | Exoplanets

Monash University Museum of Art Anna Parlane

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

National Gallery of Victoria Amelia Winata

Biennale of Australian Art

Art Gallery of Ballarat David Wlazlo

Anne Ferran: White Against Red

Sutton Gallery Giles Fielke

Eavesdropping

Ian Potter Museum of Art Sophie Knezic

State of the Union

Ian Potter Museum of Art Benison Kilby

John Stezaker: Lost World

Centre for Contemporary Photography Tim Alves

Brook Andrew: The Language of Skulls

Ten Cubed Paris Lettau

Design for Life: Grant and Mary Featherston

Heide Museum of Modern Art Jane Eckett

Shearing the Rams

National Gallery of Victoria Rex Butler

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions

National Gallery of Victoria Victoria Perin

Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth

Centre for Contemporary Photography Hester Lyon

Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

Monash University Museum of Art Philip Brophy

Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

Monash University Museum of Art Francis Plagne

Tiny Miners: Nicholas Mangan, Termite Economies

Sutton Gallery Amelia Winata

Philadelphia Wireman

World Food Books Giles Fielke

Melbourne Art Fair & Spring 1883

ACCA | Windsor Hotel David Wlazlo

A Lightness of Spirit is the Measure of Happiness

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Anna Parlane

Best and Overlooked of 2018

Recess | Ian Potter Museum of Art | Gertrude Memo Review

Auto Body Works

Arts Project Australia Shelley McSpedden

Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars

National Gallery of Victoria Rex Butler

Andrew Browne: Spill

Tolarno Galleries Paris Lettau

The Sculpture Park

Point Leo Estate Jane Eckett

Lucina Lane and Nigel Lendon: Teach the Kids to Strike

Neon Parc Giles Fielke

I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella

Shepparton Art Museum Tim Alves

Diane Arbus: American Portraits

Heide Museum of Modern Art Chelsea Hopper

The Field Revisited

National Gallery of Victoria Rex Butler

Hard Feelings

The Honeymoon Suite Anna Parlane

Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968

Charles Nodrum Gallery Francis Plagne

Kieren Seymour: Blue Blindness

Block Projects Eva Birch

Natalie Thomas and the Women's Art Register: Finding the Field

True Estate Gallery Amelia Winata

Troy Ramaekers: Double B-Sides

Five Walls Projects David Wlazlo

Vivienne Binns: It is what it is, what it is

Sutton Gallery Helen Hughes

Soda_Jerk: TERROR NULLIUS

Australian Centre for the Moving Image Kate Warren

The Shape of Things to Come

Buxton Contemporary Paris Lettau

Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Victoria Perin

Samraing Chea: Universal Drawings

Reading Room Giles Fielke

Mutlu Çerkez: 1988-2065

Monash University Museum of Art Nicholas Tammens

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Loyalty Does Not End With Death

The SUBSTATION Tiarney Miekus

Kirsten Lyttle: Digital Mana

Centre for Contemporary Photography Anna Parlane

Tony Clark: Chinoiserie Landscape 1987 - 2017

Murray White Room Francis Plagne

Richard Bell: Dredging up the Past

Gertrude Contemporary Rex Butler

Kieran Butler and collaborators: Rainbow Bois and Magical Gurls

Blindside Amelia Winata

Thank you for reading in 2017

Triennial

National Gallery of Victoria Giles Fielke

Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco

National Gallery of Victoria Victoria Perin

Angela Brennan: Forms of Life

Recess | Ian Potter Museum of Art | Gertrude Julia Lomas

Cover Versions: Mimicry and Resistance

Shepparton Art Museum Kate Warren

Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Paris Lettau

Douglas Lance Gibson: What Was Once Yesterday Today & Tomorrow

Tolarno Galleries Francis Plagne

Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy

Heide Museum of Modern Art Chelsea Hopper

Wayne Eager New Paintings

Eastgate Gallery Ian McLean

Jason Phu: My Parents Met at the Fish Market

Westspace Anna Parlane

Gareth Sansom: Transformer

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Rex Butler

Joseph Kosuth: A Short History of My Thought

Anna Schwartz Gallery David Wlazlo

Darren Sylvester: Céline

Bus Projects Amelia Winata

Brent Harris: the small sword

Tolarno Galleries Helen Hughes

The Score

Ian Potter Museum of Art Kate Warren

Isadora Vaughan: Recalcitrant Bodies

The Honeymoon Suite Paris Lettau

Smallness: Trevelyan Clay & Kate Smith

Neon Parc Francis Plagne

People Soup

Suicidal Oil Piglet Audrey Schmidt

Forever Transformed

Gertrude Contemporary Anna Parlane

Sidney Nolan and Elwyn Lynn, A Joint Centenary

Charles Nodrum Gallery Jane Eckett

Future Eaters

Monash University Museum of Art David Wlazlo

Fictitious Realities

Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre Beth Kearney

Brave New World: Australia 1930s | Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art Rex Butler

Discovering Dobell | Dobell’s Circle

Tarrawarra Museum of Art Victoria Perin

Spencer Lai: Contaminant, Figures

Fort Delta Amelia Winata

Liam Osborne: Hot Copy

Punk Café Helen Hughes

Dale Frank

Neon Parc Kylie King

Every Brilliant Eye

National Gallery of Victoria Francis Plagne

I can see Russia from here

TCB art inc. Rex Butler

Andrea Grützner: Tanztee and Erbgericht

Centre for Contemporary Photography Kate Warren

On Campus

Monash University Giles Fielke

Restless

Margaret Lawrence Gallery David Wlazlo

Sky Country: Our Connection to the Cosmos

Blak Dot Gallery Anna Parlane

Unproductive Thinking

Deakin University Art Gallery Amelia Winata

Van Gogh and the Seasons

National Gallery of Victoria Anthony White

Harold Freedman: Artist for the People

Art Gallery of Ballarat Victoria Perin

Raafat Ishak & Damiano Bertoli: Hebdomeros

Sutton Gallery Paris Lettau

Bill Henson

National Gallery of Victoria Beth Kearney

James Tylor: un-resettling

Vivien Anderson Gallery Helen Hughes

Louise Hearman

Tarrawarra Museum of Art Rex Butler

Sally Smart: The Choreography of Cutting

Sarah Scout Presents Julia Lomas

Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in Time

Monash University Museum of Art Giles Fielke

Daniel Crooks: Parabolic | Miyanaga Akira: REALTIME

Anna Schwartz Gallery Kate Warren

David Hockney: Current

National Gallery of Victoria Francis Plagne

Project 17: Radical Immanence

Anna Pappas Gallery David Wlazlo

Stuart Ringholt: Works on Paper

Neon Parc Anna Parlane

Don't be too Polite: Posters and Activism

Ian Potter Museum of Art Victoria Perin

O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington-Smith: Making Modernism

Heide Museum of Modern Art Amelia Winata

Sovereignty

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Paris Lettau

Ramesh Nithiyendran: In the beginning

Ian Potter Museum of Art Beth Kearney

Lucina Lane: Range

White Cuberd Giles Fielke

The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver

Tarrawarra Museum of Art Helen Hughes

Suzanne Archer: Moving Forwards, Looking Back: A Survey 1969–2016

Nicholas Thompson Gallery Rex Butler

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110%: Wet Nurse

c3 contemporary art space David Wlazlo 14 Dec 2019

Luke Sands

Guzzler Helen O'Toole 7 Dec 2019

Enter the Void

Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia David Homewood 30 Nov 2019

Views to Remember and Clock Face

c3 contemporary art space Giles Fielke 23 Nov 2019
  • O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington-Smith: Making Modernism

    11 Feb 2017
  • Steaphan Paton: Nullius in Verba

    17 Aug 2019
  • Sovereignty

    4 Feb 2017
  • Michael Stevenson: Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183

    1 Jun 2019
  • David Hockney: Current

    11 Mar 2017
  • Jason Phu: My Parents Met at the Fish Market

    4 Nov 2017

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