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Sidney Nolan and the Relativity of Otherness
Sidney Nolan, Inland Australia, 1950, Tate Modern collection. Yikes. It is 1030pm on my 34th birthday and I haven’t even started today’s blog. I knew the daily blog was going to be a tall order, but...
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Lisa Uhl: Repetition and Transformation
Lisa Uhl, Turtujarti 2012, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 240 cm. Recently, I was asked to write a catalog essay for a forthcoming exhibition featuring nine senior men from north Western Australia. In the...
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Corey Bulpitt and Larissa Healey: Permanent Presence
With the start of the Fall semester, I am beginning to think that my aim to do a blog post a day was a little too ambitious… Nevertheless, despite having missed a few days, I am going to try and get...
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Rachel Harrison: Expanded or Abandoned Field?
Rachel Harrison, Pablo Escobar, 2010, on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. In mid-July, I had the pleasure of visiting Chicago for the first time. We arrived in the middle of a mid-west heat...
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New lines of flight: Bark Painting as Contemporary Encounter
Yirawala, Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent, 1968, ochre on bark, 58 x 35.6 cm, National Museum of Australia There are few artworks that can rival the power of the master bark painters from Arnhem Land....
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Letter from Pittsburgh: Aboriginal art in America
The following review appeared in Art Guide Australia, January/February 2013, 68-72. Installation image from Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art...
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AKOS: Corey Bulpitt
Last week I was lucky enough to swing a couple of days in Vancouver on my way back to Pittsburgh from Australia. I didn’t need a lot of persuading to stop by the seaport city; I always enjoy my time...
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Lisa Uhl: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
The following is a catalogue essay, written for the exhibition Lisa Uhl: Turtujarti at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi from November 19-December 20, 2014. Lisa Uhl, Kurrkapi 2014, Cat No. 305-14, 120 x 240 cm,...
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What have I been doing?
It occurred to me recently that I haven’t updated this blog in some time. It isn’t because I haven’t been writing, but quite the reverse. So, what have I been up to? Well, last week I headed to Buffalo...
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Not-so-Marvellous Melbourne: Anxiety on the urban frontier in the art of ST....
In July, that State Library of Victoria will be hosting an exhibition of works by the colonial Australian artist ST Gill. The exhibition, Australian sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of ST Gill, is...
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