by Victoria Hynes | Nov 26, 2012 | All Articles, Artist Interviews, Artists, Fine Art, Neil Frazer, Publications
What Now? NEIL FRAZER You have travelled extensively to remote places such as Antarctica, the Southern Alps in New Zealand and the deserts of inland Australia. Can you describe some of these journeys? It’s true I love a good road trip. That goes for boats and small...
by Victoria Hynes | Oct 24, 2012 | All Articles, Australian Art Review, Claire Healy, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, Sean Cordeiro
Excess Baggage For more than a decade, collaborating Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have led a nomadic life, carving out bases in Sydney and Berlin, whilst criss-crossing the globe with residencies and a string of shows throughout Europe, Asia and...
by Victoria Hynes | Jun 26, 2012 | All Articles, Artists, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, Wim Delvoye
Shock And Awe WIM DELVOYE DECEMBER 10, 2011-MARCH 26, 2012Museum of Old and New Art, (MONA), Hobart, Tasmania At Hobart’s new ‘wunder’ museum, MONA, the artwork rated most offensive by visitors is the ‘Cloaca Professional’ (2010) by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. A...
by Victoria Hynes | Jun 2, 2012 | All Articles, Artists, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, James Newitt, Publications
A Tiger’s Tale The Tasmanian tiger or ‘Thylacine’ is one of the world’s most fabled animals. Though the last tiger died at Hobart zoo in 1936, sightings of this elusive creature in the Tasmanian wilderness continue to persist to this day. The ongoing fascination with...
by Victoria Hynes | Mar 2, 2012 | All Articles, Artist Interviews, Artists, Australian Art Review, Cash Buck, Fine Art, Publications, Wend Lear
Through A Lens Darkly Wend Lear now goes by the name of Cash Buck and is referred to as they/them. Wend Lear’s photographic essays of street life, whether here or overseas, are compassionate studies of the human condition. By Arts Writer, Victoria Hynes Tracking down...
by Victoria Hynes | Feb 2, 2012 | All Articles, Artist Interviews, Artist Profiles, Artists, Australian Art Review, Fine Art, Publications, Robyn Stacey
A Cultural Excavator ROBYN STACEY A large, full watermelon, shiny and ripe, is stabbed open with a nineteenth-century silver knife, as a dripping slice sits waiting to be consumed. A fecund display of fruit and flowers is draped across an antique table,...