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Brook Andrew Reflects on 'This Year'

Ocula Conversation Brook Andrew Reflects on 'This Year' By Alexie Glass-Kantor, Sydney Published in partnership with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Brook Andrew reflects on his trajectory as an artist.

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Brook Andrew

Ocula Conversation Brook Andrew By Susan Acret, Sydney Australian artist [Brook Andrew][0]'s practice often finds inspiration in institutional archives, but his intentions go beyond the archaeological: he is not primarily interested in discovering or docu

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The National Expands Its Scope as Artists See Big Picture

Ocula Feature The National Expands Its Scope as Artists See Big Picture By Tim Stone, Sydney The National 4 seeks to reaffirm the relevance of the gallery, with a dynamic showing of contemporary Australian art ranging across geographically and culturally diverse communities.

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The National 4: Sydney's Take on Australian Contemporary Art

Ocula Photolog The National 4: Sydney's Take on Australian Contemporary Art Always hotly anticipated and debated, The National is a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Explore photos of the artworks shown across Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks,and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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Aotearoa Art Fair 2023: In Photos

Ocula Photolog Aotearoa Art Fair 2023: In Photos Just three months on from its last edition, Aotearoa Art Fair returned to The Cloud with 40 galleries from New Zealand, Australia, Korea, and Indonesia. Auckland's waterfront proved a bustling setting with the return of international visitors and cruise ships. Explore highlights from the ground.

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Liverpool Biennial 2023 Seeks Slave Trade Reckoning

Ocula News Liverpool Biennial 2023 Seeks Slave Trade Reckoning Liverpool, 2 November 2022 The event's theme is 'uMoya', an isiZulu word whose meanings include 'wind'. Sailing ships from Liverpool brought around 1.5 million slaves to the UK in the 18^th century.

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Sharjah Biennial 2023 to Feature Lubaina Himid, Heri Dono, and Cao Fei

Ocula News Sharjah Biennial 2023 to Feature Lubaina Himid, Heri Dono, and Cao Fei Sharjah, 21 April 2022 More than 150 artists will present work when the Emirati exhibition takes place for the 15th time.

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The 2022 March Meeting Contends with Global Decolonisation

Ocula Feature The 2022 March Meeting Contends with Global Decolonisation By Stephanie Bailey, Sharjah At the 2022 March Meeting, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asked: 'What would global decolonisation look like?'

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In Seoul, Contemporary Australian Art Reroutes 'Australia'

Ocula Feature In Seoul, Contemporary Australian Art Reroutes 'Australia' By Sujin Jung, Seoul At the Seoul Museum of Art, an invitation to rethink Australia through contemporary art unfolds across mediums.

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Black Lives Matter Tops ArtReview Power 100 in 2020

Ocula News Black Lives Matter Tops ArtReview Power 100 in 2020 London, 3 December 2020 The list remains overwhelmingly dominated by people, institutions and movements in the Western world.

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Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020: Editorial Selections

Ocula Insight Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020: Editorial Selections By Ocula Magazine, Sydney Ocula Magazine's editors present their picks from Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020.

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Biennale of Sydney to Tackle Race and Colonialism

Ocula News Biennale of Sydney to Tackle Race and Colonialism Sydney, 4 February 2020 Newly announced highlights of the event include Arthur Jafa's The White Album, which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Biennale.

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4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

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.

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Art Basil [sic]

Ocula Feature Art Basil [sic] By Diana d'Arenberg, Hong Kong A week of memorable highs and lows, and at times crashing expectations, kind of like the contemporary art market, really.

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APT8: A fragmenting vision of the future

Ocula Feature APT8: A fragmenting vision of the future By Susan Acret, Brisbane APT8’s focus is on performance, and this idea allows the curatorial staff to go back to the seeds of the first triennials and to reference the exhibition’s history of engagement in this sphere.

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Institutional critique in the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial

Ocula Feature Institutional critique in the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial By Tess Maunder, Brisbane Reflecting on recent politics from within the Asia-Pacific region, it is apparent that exhibitions such as APT require a new set of responsibilities in order to maintain criticality with audiences

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Melbourne Now

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...

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