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Fragile landscape: tough sculpture

Horizon Amount, 1998, stands noticeable and perpendicular, capped by a indiscriminate, outreaching collinear strain, which echoes the kink of the skyline. Elflike flame-like shapes emanate from this large cast – a warning of the danger of combustion or an espousal … Continue reading

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Artists at the Adelaide Film Festival blur cinema and art

Where and what is the border between film and visual art? Is it true that we see art but watch films? Such issues have been under discussion since Andy Warhol first played with film, though these days the words ‘moving … Continue reading

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ORLAN – Refiguration Self-Hybridization

ORLAN is perhaps most well known in Australia as being the first artist to use surgery for artistic ends with her surgery performances. In 1998 she launched an international exploration into different standards of beauty, beginning in Mexico with Pre-Columbian … Continue reading

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TarraWarra on the Yarra

JEREMY ECCLES charts a celebratory course to taste art in the Yarra Valley. TarraWarra Museum of Art Healesville Tuesday to Sunday, 11am–5pm TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) is extolled by its director, the legendary Maudie Palmer, as “the first significant … Continue reading

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