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Sadie Chandler: Café society

December 2012 by Eve Sullivan

Figures and faces have always been a feature of Sadie Chandler’s iconography. From her varnish-obscured portraits of an anonymous, genteel European ancestry to her pre-Mad men mad women strutting their stuff, and the latest forays into the group portrait as social document, art and life converge. Most recently, Chandler worked on the Moreland portraits, a […]

Categories: December 2012, Eve Sullivan, Stamm 2012 Tags: Sadie Chandler

Elizabeth Newman: The origin of life

November 2012 by Eve Sullivan

In a country in which the dominant culture has a limited pre-history in terms of art and artefacts, one strategy is to recreate these models for ourselves. The culture of the ‘second degree’, as Paul Taylor put it, hangs on this persistent return to the centre or source of creative endeavour as always elsewhere or […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, November 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Elizabeth Newman

Rob McHaffie going native

October 2012 by Rob McHaffie

I saw Rob McHaffie’s recent paintings at his studio preview in the Schoolhouse Studios, Abbotsford. Destined for his solo exhibition in September at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney, this was a one-night only affair, like meeting up with an old friend, several of them in fact. Rob McHaffie’s inspiration, following his Asialink residency at Rimbun […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, October 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Rob McHaffie

Peter Schjeldahl: The critic as squid

September 2012 by Eve Sullivan

At one point in the pleasantly orchestrated conversation that was ‘An evening with “The New Yorker”‘, for the Melbourne Writers Festival, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl was likened to a large smoking squid. This reference to an outdated bad habit, and the old-school independence that one associates with art criticism in this age of institutional […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, September 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Peter Schjeldahl

‘The ark of catastrophe’: Guido van der Werve and Lyndal Jones in the 18th Biennale of Sydney

August 2012 by Eve Sullivan

Two of the works that are most memorable for me in this year’s Biennale of Sydney are Guido van der Werve’s film work Nummer acht: everything is going to be alright, and Lyndal Jones’s performance and installation at Cockatoo Island, Rehearsing catastrophe: the ark in Sydney. In the spirit of the biennale’s linked-in themes of […]

Categories: August 2012, Eve Sullivan, Stamm 2012 Tags: Guido van der Werve, Lyndal Jones

House and home

July 2012 by Eve Sullivan

‘This is a country of many colourful, patterned, plastic veneers, of brick-veneer villas, and the White Australia Policy.’ Robin Boyd, The Australian ugliness. The recent re-release by Text Publishing of The Australian ugliness by Robin Boyd, first published in 1960, provides an occasion to reflect on the prevailing views around cultural diversity. Written from the point […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, July 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Alex Selenitsch, Elizabeth Pulie

Shades of grey (gray)

June 2012 by Eve Sullivan

Thanks to Narelle Jubelin’s reference to an obscure literary masterpiece, and those recent works of erotic fan-fiction by EL James currently topping the best-seller lists, this month’s posting continues on a theme. The occasion is Jubelin’s occupation of the stairwell of the former Caulfield Technical School E Block (now the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, June 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Narelle Jublin

Photo finish, or harmony in grey

May 2012 by Eve Sullivan

Grey is the new blue, and Melbourne with its wintry aspect (for this last week at least) is my new Berlin, courtesy of John Nixon’s Black, white & grey. Photographic studies (photosheets), showing at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), and Corinna Belz’s Gerhard Richter—painting at the German film festival. While Richter ruminates on history […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, May 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Gerhard Richter, John Nixon

Elvis Richardson’s real estate

April 2012 by Eve Sullivan

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the people on it merely players …’ Elvis Richardson has, for some years now, built a body of work based on the found archives and stock images of a personal nature that people (apparently willingly, and sometimes for profit) present to the world. Whether it be the collections […]

Categories: April 2012, Eve Sullivan, Stamm 2012 Tags: Elvis Richardson

Jenny Watson: here, there and everywhere

March 2012 by Eve Sullivan

As someone who keeps hopping cities, states and (most recently) countries myself I can identify with the ‘Home and Away’ theme of this exhibition. It’s been a while since I’ve seen recent work by Jenny Watson and I know she was a bit unfashionable for a while in Australia. This exhibition cleverly addresses this tall […]

Categories: Eve Sullivan, March 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Jenny Watson

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This is the archive for Stamm, an online publishing project initiated by artist Jonathan Nichols in 2012.  [Read More] about About

Years

  • Stamm 2015
  • Stamm 2013
  • Stamm 2012

Writers 2015

  • Eliza Dyball
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Michelle Mantsio
  • Kyla McFarlane
  • Anca Verona Mihulet
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Tom Polo
  • Caterina Riva
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Sacha Waldron
  • Suzette Wearne

Writers 2013

  • Trevelyan Clay
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Michelle Mantsio
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Lisa Radford
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Pip Wallis

Writers 2012

  • Mila Faranov
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Hannah Mathews
  • Rob McHaffie
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Eve Sullivan
  • Pip Wallis