Ocula Conversation Caroline Rothwell: Follies of Industrialisation By Tessa Moldan, Singapore Caroline Rothwell investigates the relationships between humanity, the botanical, and the industrial.
Ocula Insight Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020: Editorial Selections By Ocula Magazine, Sydney Ocula Magazine's editors present their picks from Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020.
Ocula Feature Art in Melbourne: Nine Online Programmes By Tessa Moldan, Melbourne Connect with Melbourne via nine online programmes ahead of Melbourne Art Fair's Online Viewing Rooms.
Ocula Feature 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life By Natalie King, Kochi Curated by Anita Dube, the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life (12 December 2018–29 March 2019) 'places access at its core', writes Natalie King.
Ocula Feature Sydney Contemporary: Bridging the Gap By Anna Dickie, Sydney Over 80 galleries participated in the fair's fourth edition—its second annual staging, following the fair's decision to up the ante after initially launching the event biannually in 2013.
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...
Ocula Feature Melbourne Art Shows to See: The Lowdown By Carol Que, Melbourne Held at the Southbank Arts Precinct, Melbourne Art Week returns with fanfare and slight trepidation between 30 July and 5 August 2018.
Ocula Conversation | In partnership with The 21st Biennale of Sydney Brook Andrew By Susan Acret, Sydney Australian artist Brook Andrew 's practice often finds inspiration in institutional archives, but his intentions go beyond the archaeological: he is not primarily interested in discovering or documenting the past, but in 'un-cementing' history's hold on events, people and beliefs, and in doing so, freeing the discussions taking place today from...
Ocula Conversation Adeline Ooi By Diana d'Arenberg, Hong Kong Art Basel Hong Kong has started early this year. I don't mean just the dates, which have been pushed forward from May to March. I mean inboxes are already flooded with invitations for previews and dinners taking place well ahead of the March 22 VIP preview. There are more events, more exhibitions, and certainly more collectors descending upon Hong...
Ocula Feature Sydney Summer Report By Rachel Fuller, Sydney When Silence Falls Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 19 December 2015 - 1 May 2016 Currently showing in the contemporary galleries of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, When Silence Falls is a collection-based, group exhibition curated by AGNSW curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Cara Pinchbeck....
Ocula Feature Institutional critique in the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial By Tess Maunder, Brisbane Since the late 1980s the major concern for curatorial practice has been the rise of biennale culture; the impact this exhibition format has had upon both the production and reception of contemporary art internationally. Reflecting on this lineage and recent politics from within the Asia-Pacific region, it is apparent that exhibitions such as...
Ocula Conversation Peter Atkins By Laura Thomson, Christchurch Australian artist Peter Atkins was one of 7 artists invited to create new site-specific public art works for the forthcoming Christchurch Biennial, SCAPE8: New Intimacies, curated by Rob Garrett. An important figure in Australian contemporary art, Peter Atkins has exhibited extensively both in Australia and internationally and is...
Ocula Feature Sydney Contemporary Wrap By Jane O'Sullivan, Sydney Overall, it’s clear to see the fair going from strength to strength.
Ocula Feature Melbourne Summer Focus By Carol Que, Melbourne Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens MPavilion Until 31 January 2015 Nestled in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens and sponsored by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, MPavilion is a contradictory vision of permanence and ephemerality, discipline and play. Designed by internationally acclaimed architect Sean Godsell, it is a temporary...
Ocula Conversation Ben Quilty By Stephanie Bailey, London With a Bachelor of Visual Communication from University of Western Sydney, a certificate in Aboriginal Culture and History from Monash University, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting from the Sydney College of the Arts, Ben Quilty’s work is all about Australia and its social, political, cultural and historical landscapes. The genesis...
Ocula Conversation Barry Keldoulis By Laura Thomson, Melbourne Barry Keldoulis has more than three decades experience in the world of contemporary art. Keldoulis started his career in New York where he worked as private secretary and chief of staff for Henry Geldzahler, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of New York, and the first curator of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
Ocula Conversation Clinton Ng By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong It is always a joy to share my passion and collection. I consider myself a custodian of my collection. I cannot take it with me when I go.
Ocula Conversation Clinton Ng By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong These days, with the Internet, there is no barrier to seeing art. You can go across to the other side of the world to see a show.
Ocula Feature Melbourne Now By Emily Cormack, Melbourne 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...
Ocula Conversation Bill Henson By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong We seem increasingly incapable of rising above a righteous prurience in public debate around matters involving the depiction of the human form.
Ocula Conversation Bill Henson By Anna Dickie, Hong Kong My work is very much about the suggestive potential of the medium. It's about opening up a space into which one's imagination can flow
Ocula Feature Notes On Desire: The 19Th Biennale Of Sydney By Stella Rosa McDonald, Sydney " Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." George Bernard Shaw In 1879, a French postman named Ferdinand Cheval began building an esoteric homage to the beauty of sandstone. On one of his postal rounds, Cheval came across small pieces of...
Ocula Feature Great Expectations: Emerging Australian Art By Stella Rosa McDonald, Sydney In literary criticism, the term Bildungsroman refers to a coming of age novel. The protagonist learns a lesson, undergoes a transformation and grows up. They are stories where sentiment conflicts with authority, and we love them because they question our foundations and because we were all kids, once. ‘Emerging’ is the art...
