In the last month or so, we have seen leaders change, policies align and disgusting decisions imposed on the most vulnerable. Decline seems to be our modus operandi. If an empire is failing, how does it fall with the least possible pain? Harriet Morgan’s exhibition with the same name, Decline at Top Shelf above Deans […]
August 2013
Don Celender and The Kitchen
Portraiture study If you could have your portrait painted by a famous artist of the past, or present, whom would you select? Why? Don Celender Picasso. Because my eyes are on one side of my nose. Herb Caen Don Celender surveyed part 2 comprises series of mail-out art, where Don Celender mailed out questionnaires to […]
Alien in the mix: Bryan Spier at Sarah Scout Presents, Justin Andrews at Block Projects
Bryan Spier makes narrative abstraction. If this sounds like a contradiction in terms, it just might be. But it’s the kind of contradiction that allows an artist to work in an impossible space and make something of it. My understanding of what Spier means by narrative abstraction is relatively straightforward. Take his new exhibition of […]
Arthur Boyd: An active witness
Lonsdale Street Roasters Saturday 13 July, 11.05 am Brother: What do you want to do after breakfast? Sister: I’m happy. Whatevs. B: Good, because I’ve prepared an itinerary. S: Let’s have it. B: We start with a midday tour of Old Parliament House. S: Who are you? Clark Griswold? B: Don’t be like that. This […]
To be outside, to be inside, to be free, to be bound, to be
Walking up to Kate Newby’s ceramic wind chimes at Between being and doing, a group show at Utopian Slumps, I was aware that I wouldn’t be able to hear them clink in the wind from inside the gallery. I was talking to the curator about another piece of Newby’s in which she traced two outdoor […]
John Aslanidis—New York noise
JN: By 2003 you’d established the premise that you apply now, where you effectively paint intervals of sound or noise, right? Your paintings are non-objective in a way that correlates with artists such as Stephen Bram and Michael Graeve and reminds me in some senses too of Karl Wiebke. Though you’ve not exhibited in a […]