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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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