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Peter Greenaway at Melbourne International Arts Festival: eter Greenaway’s filmic installation of a replica of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper (1498) is on as part of The Melbourne International Arts Festival. He aims to set up a dialogue between painting and film – as the short written introduction outside the exhibition...; Read article

ANALOGUE SHIFT-JUSTIN ANDREWS: I’ll start at the beginning. This is a beautiful looking exhibition. There’s a shift from some of the more overtly architectural works of some of Andrews’ past shows and a move to a fascination with abstraction...; Read article

EurEco Revolution by Ash Keating: Ash Keating is a highly productive artist whose work embraces the ancient and simultaneously contemporary process of utilising/modifying the energy flow of a system in order to alter/subvert it. Think judo masters....; Read article

between... you + me, sky + earth, time + space: group show in three parts, a collaborative show, or a show of two artists, this collected group of artworks serves itself as any or all of those propositions. Clearly presented as an entity of....; Read article

Damon Kowarsky- Joshua McClelland Print Room: The exhibition rooms; a charming series of small, intimate rooms more akin to an old school apartment than contemporary viewing rooms, immediately establish a homely setting within which the intimacy of....; Read article

Daniel Argyle at NCG: In his latest show at NCG Argyle presents a series of cardboard boxes printed with colourful, formalist abstract patterns. On the walls are a series of cardboard works - small boxes which seem to have...; Read article

Dream Houses.: DON'T WAIT TILL YOU RENOVATE! The time to see David Ralph’s EXTENSIONS is NOW!; Read article

Block Projects - Geoff Newton: There’s a certain peripatetic nature to the various art projects of Geoff Newton. Traveling through music/sound...; Read article

Dalí: Liquid Desire: There are such a vast number of objects in this exhibition, and it is so difficult to get close to the more famous ones, due...; Read article

You’re Portrait by Lucy Farmer: In a long, narrow space, glowing with rich burgundy paint, seven portraits are arranged along the walls. Eight sets of eyes look out from painted confines, seeming to observe and gain life from the return of a viewers gaze. As...; Read article

AUTO RETRATO - PAINTINGS FOR P.W. - JEREMY KIBEL: Picasso himself was quoted as saying "all paintings are self portraits". What Kibel has painted are a series of large heads strongly reminiscent of Picasso, faintly resembling the man, and then again ....; Read article

Tacita Dean at ACCA: I have had a background interest in Tacita Dean’s work for a number of years now, from the first time I saw her mesmerising films....; Read article

ROSE NOLAN -"ANOTHER HOMEWORK EXPERIMENT ": “…Rose Nolan’s “detail, My Scrap/Note Collection” and “It’s Okay To Be Alright” look like a quick attempt to come up with a spoof of a Barbara Kruger work, but...; Read article

DENISE GREEN: EVANESCENCE: Recently, my sister and I decided to take a drive up to Kinglake and the Yarra Valley for the first time since Black Saturday. As you...; Read article

My Plastic Everything-Jackson Slattery: lattery is certainly one of the most interesting painters working in Melbourne. This show is a rare opportunity to see a major body of his work in....; Read article

New 09 - A review: The New series of exhibitions at ACCA inevitably disappoint some....; Read article

SOCIETY GETS THE ART IT DESERVES: This was the phrase employed by Stephen Asquith of Block Projects in regard to a society which only produces an elite few who can afford art and who have created a market for a slickly presented final product, which.....; Read article

A Life More Ordinary at Westspace: 400 years ago, we decided to switch from deductive to inductive reasoning as our favourite way of making new knowledge. Of course it is widely acknowledged (at least it is often mentioned in the pages of New Scientist) that....; Read article

Guardians Of The Departed: Last September I was in studio 3 at the British School at Rome, Amanda Marburg was in studio 7. It was way too hot to paint, or do anything much other than take refuge in the cool dark marble interiors of churches and smirk at the baroque excess, or be dumbstruck by crypts decorated with the bones...; Read article

Kristian Pithie Gallery: Same, same but different: I applaud Kristian Pithie’s efforts in starting a new space at this time. It is a welcome note of optimism in a relentlessly gloomy period. There are some very nice works in this show, which is essentially an introduction to....; Read article

They Shoot Horses Don’t They: Last Thursday night I thought I was going to the opening of a show by Berlin based, Belgian painter, Stephan Balleux but it turned out I was a week early. I was told that it was a preview, not an opening. Whatever, I got....; Read article

Double Voyage: I really enjoy going to Anna Schwartz gallery when the lights are out. The space is so cavernous and the shoes I was wearing last Friday created a satisfying click-clunk that echoed nicely as I walked back and forth....; Read article

There are more things: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that....; Read article

Graham Day Guerra at Wardlow Studio: Guerra uses software to create 3d models of conglomerate figures resumbling some combination of a Bellmer doll and a Chapman brothers' sculpture. These models form the basis for skillfully executed...; Read article

An OK Biennale: The Biennale of Sydney is a very important show for Australians who like contemporary art. Many of us take a bi-annual trip to see the latest and sometimes the fashionable in contemporary art. Australia still suffers from...; Read article

Darkness Matters: Imagine a museum display from another planet, or imagine what the early seventies thought the future of art would look like and now imagine them getting it right. If you can't do either of these things then check out Giles Ryder's latest show, Dark Matter. Ryder's grey matter must be.....; Read article

Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape painting: Ah, the blockbuster, staple of a gallery’s financial diet. They’re a phenomenon that exists, pure and simple, so there’s no point...; Read article

Kate Rohde's Flourish: The theme of the wunderkammer in Kate Rhode's installation at Tarrawarra Museum of Art is a lovely bit of cheek; Read article

Benevolent Terrorist Siege at Neon Parc: To be honest I haven’t even seen this show. I only went to the opening (an hour late) and even then I didn’t actually go into the gallery. It wasn’t my fault, it was because terrorists had taken over Neon Parc and they weren’t letting.....; Read article

NEW08 at ACCA: This much anticipated annual survey demonstrates an eye for detail. The works here are carefully constructed, labour intensive and often require the viewer to look.....; Read article

A Considered Response: One of the consequences of this image-saturated world is that eight seconds is as long as you can expect anyone to look at a painting. Sam Leach’s entry into this years Archibald Prize is a case in point. In eight seconds you will see a self portrait of the artist in Nazi uniform, after....; Read article

There Goes a Narwhal: Nell's bronze sculpture scared my 19 month old daughter. It is just life-like enough to trigger that sort of response - it appears to have....; Read article

Corey Delaney - Fucken Legend: A legend in yellow plastic shades..; Read article

David Ralph at Arc One Gallery: Dribbly, blurry, smeary, chunky, slick and rough, David Ralph makes his paint work hard. He puts it through an almost gymnastic regime, forcing it to perform in leaps and bounds on the canvas. The surface terrain is rich....; Read article

Goodfellow Show at Seventh: Antonia Goodfellow Seventh Gallery December 2007 Goodfellow exhibited sculptures and drawings at Fitzroy Seventh Gallery in December last. The sculptures....; Read article

Tim Hawkinson at MCA, Sydney: "All these giant piles of moving rubbish are making me feel quite anxious," says my partner at "Mapping the Marvelous" - the Tim Hawkinson survey show at MCA.; Read article

Bertram Mackennal: Sex, nudity, orgies, death and fame, glorious, fickle fame. A hundred years ago, Bertram Mackennal was an art superstar. An Australian who made it big time in England, a member...; Read article

Aaron Martin - Shadow Play: Aaron Martin’s current exhibition of works at Apartment surrounds the aptly small space with their dark and individual intimacies. Each....; Read article

Louise Hearman at Tolarno Galleries: It was a sunny October morning but in the reverential gloom of Tolarno Galleries the only light seemed to be emanating from the paintings themselves. An ethereal light reflected from who knows whence revealing....; Read article

The Spoils: In the beginning, the thing you will notice about Sam Leach’s paintings is that they are very seductive objects. Let’s get this out of the way. Did I say objects? Yes I did. But these are paintings? Oil paintings. Old school...; Read article

Judith Van Heeren: An interesting show in a wonderful space. Richly coloured paintings of birds (specimens from the Natural History museum in New York, we are told) set....; Read article

Andrew Browne - Chimera: As I write this, the show is about to close, but these paintings will be floating around the art world in the flesh and in reproduction for a while. I have heard criticism of this show that the paintings are perhaps....; Read article

Politics of picturing: Two exhibitions both with political concerns to a greater or lesser extent are on show at the VCA.; Read article

bird girl: "I'm no anti-feminist. I love women. Some of my best friends are women. My wife, indeed." (Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister). The status....; Read article

John Nixon at TarraWarra: I am an artist who has recently arrived from another country. A friend took me along to see my first exhibition of paintings by John Nixon. My friend....; Read article

Wardlow Opinion: A one night only show at Wardlow Studio proved to be one of the more interesting I have seen this year. Slattery's work in particular is a bit of a revelation.; Read article

Geoff Newton - Paintings: Geoff Newton's show at Neon Parc is good. A collection of smallish paintings, ranging from well painted to poorly painted, gestural to quite tight, conceptual to figurative they hang together beautifully....; Read article

Describing Air With Earth: The ambitious and rather poetic title is quite the opposite of the experience of viewing this prosaic exhibition.; Read article

David Thomas at Nellie Castan - April 2007: Dr Thomas looks very serious on the cover of the latest edition of Art Collector. As well he might – he has staged a serious installation of paintings and what he calls "photo-paintings" at Nellie Castan Gallery; Read article

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