I’m starting a commercial gallery in Northbridge next month. From now on I’ll be blogging from the gallery’s own website, hopefully with much more regularity, along with Jamie Macchiusi and Gemma Weston. http://www.oktachoron.com/blog
April 9, 2011
Perth painter Abdul Abdullah has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Archibald’s for this portrait of Waleed Aly.
March 27, 2011
Link Here. Gian’s website. Gian Manik will exhibit a series of new works in his solo exhibition at Venn Gallery, which will combine performance and sculpture to produce a series of paintings and video work. For Shadow Cast Shadows, Manik continues to pursue multiple disciplines and in particular focuses on representations of the body,… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
Link here. WA artist Patrick Doherty returns to FAC with an exhibition of painting, drawing on a range of influences from informal urban art to genre painting and biblical text. Doherty’s style weaves effortlessly between reality and fantasy, in this vibrant series of large-scale works. An amalgamation of personal and spiritual mythology, religious iconography and… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
Link here. In his first solo exhibition in Western Australia, Benjamin Forster’s installation )( utilises objects, images, books and video to investigate contemporary systems of rationality; the storage of information and the tenuous connection to ‘meaning’ and ‘value’. Forster recently won the non-acquisitive 2010 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing.… [Read more…]
March 21, 2011
They’ll be starting at six, with Leigh Robb (PICA’s curator) leading the talks. I’ll be pouring drinks and looking surly behind the bar. Chelsea Hopper Artist Statement: For the last two years or so, Chelsea Hopper has wanted to realise a project on failure. Failure is something fundamental not only to art but to human… [Read more…]
July 31, 2011
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