Yayoi Kusama exhibition
In March I went to Brisbane Gallery Of Modern Art to see Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition, Look now, see forever. In the show were large acrylic sculptures, installation rooms with inflatables, sculptures and...
View ArticleKieran Stewart
Kieran Stewart was our Context and Culture lecturer at VU and his enthusiasm for art is infectious. He’s also a visual artist who works across the mediums of video, image making and sculptural...
View ArticleThe needle is used to repair the damage – Louise Bourgeois
I researched Louise Bourgeois for an assignment a while back, but I didn’t particularly like her work. But when I recently saw her work in the flesh at Heide Museum of Modern Art, I was impressed and...
View ArticleLavandula lavender farm, near Daylesford
I recently visited Lavandula lavender farm. It’s incredibly beautiful and there was a sculpture show on as a bonus. Sculptures from 25 artists, including Zoe Amor, Paul Turbitt, and Kaya Storm dotted...
View ArticleAngel sculpture, Queen Street
I sometimes work at an office in Bourke Street, and have often noticed this angel sculpture, high on a wall next door to an office building at 160 Queen Street, Melbourne. I finally decided to...
View ArticleNiki de Saint Phalle
Born at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1930, the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle grew up in New York. At 18 she eloped with writer and childhood friend Harry Matthews, and they had two children...
View ArticleJudy Chicago
I recently came across an 80 year old female artist I’d never heard of. She was a pioneer of the feminist art movement in the 1960s and 70s in the US. Her early working life was lonely and she was...
View ArticleRMIT grad show 2019
My friend David graduated from RMIT Visual Arts (Sculpture) recently. The RMIT graduate show was amazing, a rabbit warren of rooms in three buildings on Swanston Street. My main criticism was that...
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