Tag: art
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“I encourage international students to delve more into the culture of First Nations people”: Art and Weaving at NAIDOC
As part of the University of New South Wales’ NAIDOC celebrations on July 8th, I had the opportunity to join the art and weaving workshops organised by Indigenous artists Leilani Knight and Allyson Brown, respectively. I was taught how to convey stories, emotions and messages through my craft, from an idea as simple as…
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Devonshire Street Objects
Art review by Dylan Chalwell One of the most exciting developments in modern art is the emergence of provocative, unauthorised pieces in inner-city enclaves. In Surry Hills and Darlinghurst, for example, the only thing more pleasantly surprising than finding a wall that has been graffitied by local artist Lister, is finding one that hasn’t.
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“It is Difficult:” Public Art and Private Minds
Earlier this year at the Americas Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, the United States formally acknowledged the existence of the drug decriminalisation debate throughout Latin America spearheaded by conservative Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina. While Hillary Clinton also garnered just as much, if not more news coverage for dancing the night away at Café Havana, historians…
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Review: Solitudes by David Jon Kassan
There’s something deeply powerful and captivating about Brooklyn-based painter David Jon Kassan’s paintings. They’re the kind of works that stop you in your tracks, suspending you before them. This is in part due to the technical skill that they clearly showcase – it’s almost inconceivable that a person can reproduce, out of paint, so realistic…
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Review: The London Years at Brett Whiteley Studio
Tucked away in the back streets of Surry Hills is a studio where one of Australia’s most iconic artists, Brett Whiteley, used to live and create in. Post-divorce and in the throes of heroin and alcohol addiction, it was a space Whiteley retreated to four years before his fatal overdose in 1992. It’s a fascinating homage…
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