Ocula Report Net Art's Archival Poetics at the New Museum 23 Feb 2019 : Banyi Huang for Ocula How should net art be classified, historicised, and exhibited, when time has elapsed between its initial production and its latter presentation? On view at the New Museum from 22 January to 26 May 2019, The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics presents 16 seminal artworks from Net Art Anthology, an ambitious two-year initiative undertaken...
Ocula Conversation Xi Bei Artistic Director, Times Art Center Berlin Times Art Center Berlin is a non-profit art institution located in the Potsdamer Strasse Art District of Berlin. It was founded in July 2018 by the Guangdong Times Museum, a non-profit private art museum in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China, making this the first parallel institution founded overseas by an Asia-based art museum. Its...
Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Established in 2006, Gallery 9 is a contemporary art gallery based in Sydney’s Darlinghurst. For over ten years we have been focused on representing a small stable of emerging, early and mid-career artists who embrace all forms of contemporary art practice. We are committed to supporting the artistic visions of our artists, nurturing their experimentations and investigations over the long term.
Gallery 9 represents artists working in Australia, New Zealand, The USA and Berlin in its Sydney gallery and also shows a number of its artists in off-site exhibitions in Melbourne. In addition to our stable, Gallery 9 has ongoing relationships with several other artists and presents a changing and evolving program of new and emergent contemporary voices.
Sarah crowESTAppliqué #2 (leaves unbothered), 2018 Linen, gesso, acrylic paint, linen and cotton thread
Ocula Photolog Sydney Contemporary 2018 14 September 2018 'With a thriving contemporary art scene, Sydney is a dynamic cultural destination with an international reputation for presenting the very best in visual art through its leading commercial galleries, public institutions, private museums, festivals and Biennale. Defined by the vibrancy of its host city, Sydney Contemporary provides collectors,...
Ocula Insight Suzie Idiens at Gallery 9, Sydney By Laura Thomson Born in the United Kingdom, Suzie Idiens studied art and design at the Royal College of Art, London. Since emigrating to Sydney in 2006 she has exhibited in Berlin, Sydney and London, as well as at the Melbourne Art Fair and Art Stage, Singapore. In her latest exhibition, Neutral Ground at Gallery 9, Sydney, Idiens contests the boundaries...
Ocula Insight Julian Hooper at Gallery 9, Sydney 7 March 2016 Auckland born artist, Julian Hooper is becoming increasingly well known for his highly individual paintings. Drawing on a vast store of personal memory and imagery, his work, while close to contemporary abstraction and traditional painting territories, is unique and often surprising. In this Ocula Insight, Hooper discusses his latest exhibition,...
Ocula Report Melbourne Now 2 Dec 2013 : Emily Cormack for Ocula For a city consistently referred to as Australia’s ‘cultural capital’ Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has had a track record of casual disregard for the vigorous cultural activities that have been occurring in its midst. It has seemed odd at best, that despite healthy acquisitions of contemporary...
Related Press You can see Australia from here – 'Denise Green: Beyond and Between – A Painter’s Journey' Art Almanac : 21 February 2017 After all these years away, what do you think you still carry with you from Australia?When I was growing up in Brisbane I saw a lot of Indigenous art, not in contemporary art institutions but in anthropological contexts such as the Queensland Museum. I was much more interested in what I was seeing there than European painting, which just left me...
Related Press Julian Hooper: Sliding Doors Vault Magazine : 10 November 2016 When we speak a few weeks out from Julian Hooper’s September exhibition at Ivan Anthony in Auckland, he still hasn’t settled on a title for the show. We both agree that a good title can’t be forced. It becomes part of the artwork, adding to the layers of meaning, but as Hooper explains, a good title doesn’t 'blow the cover' of thework. It is...
Related Press Andrzej Zieliński: 'Primary Data' Art Almanac : 12 October 2016 Working across sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking, Andrzej Zieliński's practice challenges the myth of contemporary technological innovation. His work depicts electronic devices – phones, computers, shredders, fax machines – and addresses the many contradictions embedded in our relationships to them, which are cutting-edge one moment and...
Related Press Teelah George: Artist Profile Artist Profile : 5 October 2016 Home is a loaded word. It is more than just a place of residence; it is a psychological and emotional connection to a locale, a lifestyle, to everyday experience, to family, and to friends. The complexity and interconnectedness of our understanding of the concept of 'home' is consolidated for Teelah George when she has the opportunity to...
