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Julie Rrap, Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (detail), 1982, installation view. Julie Rrap: Past Continuous, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024, black and white archival prints, colour cibachrome prints, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 1994. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

July 2, 2024

‘Not just as we are, but as we have been and as we will be’: the time-warping brilliance of Australian artist Julie Rrap

Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney

In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.

Tacita Dean, Paradise (film still), 2021, with music, Paradiso by Thomas Adès, 35mm colour anamorphic film, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, © the artist.

December 11, 2023

How the poetically-charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time

Donna West Brett, University of Sydney

Tactia Dean works across film, photography, drawing, printmaking, immersive installations, and she is now on display at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

Al río/To the River (detail) © Zoe Leonard.

September 11, 2023

The persistence of nature, the movement of water, the rigidity of walls: photographer Zoe Leonard documents the US–Mexico border

Jane Simon, Macquarie University

For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting.

Vivienne Binns. Somebody’s every day, somewhere, sometime, 2009. Acrylic paint on canvas. 152 x 183cm MCA/Tim Herbert

February 9, 2022

Meet Vivienne Binns, the Australian artist whose work was called ‘an affront to masculinity’

Julie Shiels, RMIT University

Vivienne Binns burst on to the art scene in 1967 – and she has been making art her own way ever since.

An installation view of Lindy Lee’s Birth and Death. Anna Kucera

October 13, 2020

Lindy Lee’s Moon in a Dew Drop: art driven by a sense of wonder, born of hard struggle

Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne

Lindy Lee sees beauty in a moon drop, a speck of dust caught in a beam of light, and fragments of molten bronze. A new exhibition arcs over the entire trajectory of Lee’s career.

Sam Cranstoun, Utopia, The National, Carriageworks. Zan Wimberley

April 2, 2019

The National is a time capsule of new Australian art in uncertain times

Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW Sydney

The ambitiously named exhibition, The National: New Australian Art, lives up to its title as a visual examination of Australia in an age of uncertainty.

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