Latest Ocula Conversation Artist Taloi Havini and Ruth McDougall, curator of Pacific art at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, discuss Havini's first Australian solo exhibition, Reclamation .
Latest Ocula Report Sydney Biennale Connects Here with Everywhere By Soo-Min Shim, Sydney 'This year's Biennale of Sydney seems like a corrective,' writes Soo-Min Shim, 'prioritising autonomy in an international exhibition format that has all too often omitted or sidelined First Nations artists.'
Ocula Insight Hell is a Place on Earth: P·P·O·W Looks to History in Context of Covid-19 By Stephanie Bailey, London In the United States, parallels have been drawn between the HIV/AIDS crisis and what is unfolding with Covid-19. These connections feed into P·P·O·W's online exhibition, Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head .
THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery was established in 2013 by Nicola Stein and Dianne Tanzer. Stein and Tanzer are dedicated to promoting and exhibiting outstanding contemporary artists in Australia and increasing their visibility internationally. This collaboration represents a select group of artists whose practices are defined by integrity, critical engagement and a strong personal aesthetic. Our dynamic annual program of solo shows, curated exhibitions and artist projects is complemented by our focus on off-site exhibitions and regular participation in international art fairs and public projects.
Ocula Insight Juan Ford: Artist of Seduction By Anna Dickie At Galerie du Monde , Hong Kong , the centrepiece of Juan Ford 's recent solo exhibition Blank (15 March–20 April 2019) was Recollector (2018), a hyper-realistic portrait of a solo female figure standing against a clear blue sky, the painting cropped at her knee. She is costumed in white drapery, although fragments of red, blue, and yellow...
Ocula Conversation Vincent Namatjira By Natalie King, Melbourne Vincent Namatjira relishes painting famous people who are humorously redeployed across vivid canvases and depicted in his community in remote Indulkana in South Australia. His powerful paintings are part portraiture and part caricature, in which politicians are placed side by side in wryly preposterous juxtapositions, such as Donald Trump and...
Ocula Report Sydney Contemporary: Bridging the Gap By Anna Dickie, Sydney As far as art fair venues go, Sydney Contemporary (13–16 September 2018) has nailed it with Carriageworks, where the fair was once again staged. Formerly a rail yard and now a cultural centre, the space has retained its distinctive 19 th -century industrial details, and it offered a striking light-filled backdrop to the fair's crisp white...
Ocula Photolog Sydney Contemporary 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...
Related Press The Births of Venus and Olympia 25 September 2019, Art Guide Australia Animal masks, headless budgies and reptile skeletons are frequent sights in the photography of contemporary Australian artists Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks. While each artist favours elements of the performative in their work, stylistically they are opposites. Papapetrou's images are resplendent with richly textured backdrops while Hicks...
Related Press Art Basel's buzziest exhibit makes fun of global despots 9 December 2018, Quartzy It came as a serious shock to me when I rounded a corner at Art Basel Miami Beach, the world's largest contemporary art fair, and came face-to-face with Donald J. Trump.
Related Press Photos | Weapons for the Soldier exhibition opening at Hazelhurst 15 November 2018, The Leader On New Year's Eve 1915, 31-year-old William Joseph Punch from North Queensland joined up and went to war. Sent to northern France he was wounded twice, finally ending up in a military hospital in Britain. There on August 29, 1917, he died from pneumonia.
Related Press 'Youngfellas': artists come to grips with legacy of Indigenous servicemen 9 November 2018, The Guardian Vincent Namatjira and Kamurin Young are two of the "youngfellas" who belong to one of the most remote artistic collectives on earth, spanning a vast proportion of central Australia, larger than many European countries.
