Author Archive
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Locality & Mobility: Australia & South Korea tandem-style
In May 2012, a group of key thinkers in arts from Australia and South Korea gathered together at the invitation of Arts Victoria and the Department of Business…
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Gigi Scaria: Prisms of perception
Gigi Scaria was born in Kerala, India, in 1973. He is one of a new generation of Indian artists who has established a significant international exhibition profile with exhibitions…
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Jitish Kallat: Circa
Jitish Kallat: Circa is Kallat’s first solo exhibition in an Australian museum. Following the reflective nature of his recent projects, this exhibition is conceived as an evolving…
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The Lemuria forum at the Melbourne Festival
The utopian idea of Lemuria is an imaginary, submerged landscape hugging the shoreline between Australia and India. This hypothetical…
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Shadowlife
Shadowlife is a significant exhibition that will assist in developing a deeper understanding of contemporary Australian art and the multiplicities of…
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Press Release 2012 – Shadow Life
The Australian Embassy Bangkok and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) proudly present Shadowlife, an exhibition of photography and moving image works by…
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Kate Daw, “Civil Twilight End”
Civil Twilight End is a permanent public art project by Melbourne-based artists Kate Daw and Stewart Russell, that brings a sense of community, reverie and natural rhythm to the Docklands precinct.
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Utopia presents Intimate Publics
As social, geo-social and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, what is the impact on art practice and politics? Curated by Utopia—a roving visual arts project for the…
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Bill Henson in conversation with Natalie King
Bill Henson held his first solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975, at the age of 19. Since that time he has become one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.
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People love to watch: From Mr Rumbold to Julian Assange
Almost forty years ago, a 1974 episode of the British television comedy Are You Being Served? played out in burlesque many of the problems and possible…
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Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang
This publication looks at four of the most influential photographers of the last 40 years, and whose works are steeped in the social, sexual and cultural politics of their time.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Photofile, 2010
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: When I was first invited to Sydney I was given a number of potential sites including Pier 2/3, MCA and Cockatoo Island…
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Accumulation: the aesthetics of waste & recycling
At the turn of the 20th century, the French photographer Eugène Atget depicted the figure of the chiffonniers, or ragpickers, to reveal the uneven development of capitalist modernity…
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The material of meaning: Illuminating the art of Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth is candid, astute and erudite. At the time of our meeting in Sydney, I was reading Pierre Cabanne’s dialogue with Marcel Duchamp and the latter’s views on the elastic definition…
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Up Close – Heide Museum of Modern Art
Up Close traces the significant legacy of Australian photographer Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) and situates her work alongside that of other photo-based artists…
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Fatal Attraction
In 2005, Joe Korp committed suicide on the day his wife, Maria, was buried. Previously, Tania Herman, who was having an affair with Korp, choked Maria in her suburban garage.
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Kathy Temin: Forest of memories
IN 1994, KATHY TEMIN EXHIBITED A Monument to the Birds, a suite of tombstone-like slabs of concrete at the base of a twenty-six-metre-long holly hedge, originally planted as a resting place for birds in…
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Anastasia Klose with Natalie King
Natalie King: Can you tell me about the title of your recent exhibition The Happy Artist at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne?
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Tacita Dean, Photofile, 2009
Tacita Dean is renowned for her 16mm films, drawings, photographs and audio recordings that explore time, chance and contingency…
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Tracey Moffatt Other 2009
Tracey Moffatt’s practice deals with the human condition in all its complexity. Drawing on the histories of cinema, art and photography, as well as popular culture…
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Profile: Djon Mundine
With a long career that encompasses curating, writing, artmaking activism and academia, Djon Mundine is an important figure in the Australian contemporary art scene.
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Kate Beynon – Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living
The imagery of the works intends to promote and share `good spirits’ for dealing and living in today’s mixed up world. Kate Beynon
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There is no future: An interview with Ai Weiwei
Based in Beijing, Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most prominent artists. Born in 1957, he grew up in exile in the remote desert province of Xinjiang.
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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev with Natalie King
16th Biennale of Sydney, Revolutions – Forms That Turn June – September 2008 Interview with Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Natalie King: Can you expand on your theme…
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Dolls, 2007
Dolls, mannequins, masks, wigs and costumes are just some of the accoutrements that feature in the unsettling work of Destiny Deacon, Zoe Leonard, Maria Marshall…
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Interview with Massimiliani Gioni
Natalie King: in 2002 you set up The Wrong gallery in New York with co-curators Maunzio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick. As the smallest exhibition space in the gallery district of Chelsea…
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Destiny Deacon – Walk & don’t look blak
Destiny Deacon: Walk＆don’t look blak is the first survey by this leading Australian Indigenous artist to be shown in Japan. Deacon’s international profile includes participating in the Yokohama Triennale…
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Destiny Deacon: Walk & don’t look blak
Destiny Deacon: Walk & don’t look blak was the first museum survey exhibition of the work of the Aboriginal Australian artist Destiny Deacon. Spanning 15 years…
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Supernatural Artificial
Presenting the work of nine leading Australian artists working in photography and video, Supernatural Artificial was a highly charged and moody exhibition that…
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Painting: an arcane technology
Is painting a critique of a disembodied, fractured view of the world? Is painting a symptom of a nostalgic, even regressive approach that yearns…