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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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 Neil Boyack’s - Social Work
Interview with Sam Simmons - Fail
Which member of your family influenced you the most?
Sam Simmons: My cat Floyd, he was a 20 year old ginger tom cat when he died. He was a distinguished gentleman, I will love him forever.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 A Map of a Dream of the Future (AMDF) begins with a question: what does a generation of young Tasmanians think about climate change? AMDF’s surreal hanging garden of 400 native Tasmanian plants is a data-scape that expresses what a sample of young Tasmanians think about the future of climate change. |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 “Art is a lie that helps us realise the truth”. Pablo Picasso’s powerful words poignantly linger in Carol Jerrems’ tribute to her mother Joy. This was Jerrems’ final piece of work before she passed away. Heide Museum of Modern Art’s Up Close exhibition features work from Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang. Photographic images from each artist capture different aspects of life during the 1970s and 1980s, such as teenage and gay subcultures as well as party scenes of the 1980s.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 “Mix tapes are the most accessible form of modern art in some respects”, says the creator of a new Chunky Move performance that is “born out of love and relationships”.
- Stephanie Lake
Interview by Steve Proposch
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 An interview with Ben Butcher.
Ben Butcher is 35 and some kind of genius. “Would you like a home-brand ginger nut biscuit?” he asks me. “It’s the last one.” I accept – I’m not a damn fool – and he brings out his work to show me.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 In this rich rural country we call north west Victoria, beside a hill somewhere between Castlemaine and Maryborough, there is a man with an ear that’s listened to from here to New York City.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 By now, you’ve probably all heard the fashion adage that ‘green is the new black’ and have perhaps joined the growing movement of folks taking ethical clothing pledges, buying second hand frocks and going to clothes swaps. Yet fast-fashion consumerism remains rampant with clothing comprising approximately 50% of goods dumped in charity bins – 35% of which are not deemed wearable and subsequently sent to landfill.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 I’ve been in the bush again, grafting a variety of fruit tree cuttings onto wild apples and hawthorns. I pruned quince, peach, apricot, Fuji, Granny Smith, and nectarine from local street trees. I spent six dollars fifty on grafting tape and from this I aim to make about a hundred grafts onto mature, wild stocks. My girlfriend Meg has nicknamed one of the hardy, well-established wild apples we’ve been experimenting on ‘The Fruit Salad Tree’. It’s a work in progress to see how many different varieties of fruits we can grow onto it.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 Under the theme ‘Landscape’ the photographic series, Ours Ours by Castlemaine artist Greg Smith was featured in the most recent Danish photographic festival – Fototriennale.dk 2009. Until 12 September these images are on view at The LaTrobe University Visual Art Space in View Street, Bendigo.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
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 Get ready Melbourne! With more than 4000 artists participating in hundreds of shows throughout Melbourne from 22 September to 10 October, the 2010 Melbourne Fringe Festival is guaranteed to be an action-packed-art-extravaganza.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
 Some of my fondest childhood memories involved a pot of delicious smelling Clag Glue, some crepe paper, cellophane and an A3 scrapbook for making collage pictures. Stick It! at The Ian Potter Centre, NGV is the first NGV exhibition to explore the collage art form in a bid to convince us that collage can be a sophisticated art form with diverse results, and is not just for kids. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 T: You say that during development of this work the focus shifted. It was to be about the more specific concept of domestic violence, based on therapy interviews with men who had been violent towards their partners, but “became a broader work about experiences of power, control and violence in intimate relationships.” Can you tell us the reason behind this shift?
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 “I often describe myself as a ‘sculptographer’, a post-conceptual photographer. A mediator between genres and dimensions; between you, the other, and I. I suppose I am an altogether different collagist, maybe a collagist of difference”.
- Peter Madden
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 The large ‘Art Fair’ flags swaying in the winter winds around Melbourne at the moment are an indication that August is an exciting, eventful time for Melbourne art-lovers. Throughout the month, high profile and highly anticipated exhibitions are complemented with intriguing independent shows worthy of a look.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
 The directions are simple enough. I am to meet the Malthouse media assistant downstairs at 2pm. I am not entirely sure how we will know each other, so prepare in my mind a contingency plan to speak to the helpful people at the box office desk. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 Interview with Angus Cerini
- Wretch
What do you hope for?
AC: Death when it comes to be swift and merciless.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
 Water in its many incarnations holds endless appeal for Jeff Makin. His paintings variously depict rain-laden clouds, gently flowing rivers, spectacular waterfalls, placid lakes – still and reflective of the world around them – and the ultimate destination of every inland watercourse, the infinite sea. |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
 Cheap oil has made us forget the proper relationship we once had to the first six inches of the Earth’s crust. Yet we now know that microbial forests-networks of microfauna and microfungi-operate invisibly beneath us, generating the conditions for plant life to flourish and thus produce food. Soil not oil is a clear enough message, but increasingly difficult to translate to an expanding urban population evermore estranged from the interdependent processes of healthy soil ecology and permanent food supply. |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
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 That Alasdair Macintyre's dioramas or sculptural tableaux are on a comparatively small scale makes them no less pertinent, insightful and engaging. His implied narratives weave their intertextual way through politics, popular culture, art history, philosophy, Christian symbolism, and a compassionate exploration of the human condition.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 You might have seen or heard about the remarkable film on David Hockney shown on ABC TV recently. We were able to watch Hockney at work in fairly wintry weather in Yorkshire, making his plein-air landscapes. It is a body of work that has created quite a stir in the art world (most recently exhibited at London’s Tate Britain in late 2009). |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 Visiting galleries is advantageous when they are quiet and less crowded. Fewer people and distractions on a weekday or early in the morning allow you to take the time to study and savour each piece. Changed working hours now force me to fight the crowds on busy weekends. However, I have recently realised that this is often better. |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 Inspiration for The Brunswick Show originated from artist Stuart Beekmeyer’s observation of “the results of suburban gentrification and its affects on artistic communities.”
Beekmeyer’s belief “that Brunswick had reached a very important turning point” and “is positively brimming with artistic talent and creativity which needs to be celebrated and brought to light on a broader scale” appealed to Brunswick artists Belinda Wiltshire, Simon Gardam and Cynthia Nolan who also became involved in this exciting project. |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 You know that terrific scene in Kubrick’s The Shining, where Jack Nicholson is sitting at a bar talking to the smartly dressed ghost of a bartender? Jack’s character, Johnny, has lost his mind by this point and finds this long dead pourer his new best friend. There’s a post war thang going on. |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 I’m becoming increasingly convinced that every obstacle placed in front of us that apparently disables the possibility of living within the limits of our local landbase, within cyclical processes of nature, can be overcome. But, unhinging ourselves from an unsustainable ideology – liberal growth capital – takes time, especially when this dominant ideology is so fanatically needy of our attention. |
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
 You should all stop reading this now. Once you enter the realm of the collector, there is no going back. Perhaps some of you have already made a pact with the abyss of collecting, and the only reason you’re continuing to read is to know that someone else shares your “sweet delightful pain”. |
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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 "...One of the greatest pop groups of all time. I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music, and that's what makes them extraordinary." - Paul David Hewson, KBE (aka. Bono) 1999.
At the Swedish premiere of the film version of "Mamma Mia!" held at the Rival Theatre in Mariatorget (Maria Square), Stockholm on July 4, 2008, the film's stars appeared on the balcony with the members of ABBA, providing ecstatic fans with the first photograph of all four together in 22 years. |
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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 Interview with Sarah Carroll
‘Legend’ – THE JUNES
Which member of your family influenced you the most?
SC: I come from a very influential family of big characters so that’s a hard one. My father’s love of silly songs and wordplay, my mother’s sense of humour and strength and my stepfather’s sense of adventure all played a part in who I am. |
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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 If you have ever visited the Eureka Tower on Southbank and looked closely, you may have noticed the large gold bees that overlook the residential entrance to the building. Designed by Richard Stringer, the bees are symbolic of the hive-like community of people living in the Eureka building.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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 Nightmarish characters, domesticated animals and the stereotyped members within a society are the focal points of artist Rona Green’s extensive array of artworks, a ten year summary of which is on show at the Deakin University Art Gallery from the 2nd June to the 10th July.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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 A wave of nausea washed over me as I tried to comprehend the statistic – only 150 out of 15,000 children sent to Theresienstadt ghetto during the Second World War survived. With stinging eyes and a lump in my throat, I took some moments to ponder the other statistics:
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