Natelie King - Curator
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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…
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Rosemary Laing: Aero-Zone
In Aero-zone Laing offered the viewer the opportunity to rethink conventional notions of space and time by presenting the possibility that, rather than existing as fixed…
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YOIN: Reverberations between Australia & Japan
The exhibition involves the work of four Melbourne-based artists who have all been residents of the Australia Council Tokyo studio.
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Rapport: Eight Artists from Singapore and Australia
Rapport was a very early joint exhibition created by leading young curators in Australia and Singapore, inviting four artists from each place to exhibit in a major exhibition…
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Swoon
Swoon brings together the work of Kate Daw and Maria Griffin around the idea of rapture and romance. Their respective practices take up the emotional and the sentimental amidst …
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Narelle Jubelin Soft and Slow
The Monash University Gallery is pleased to present two recent works by Sydney based artist Narelle Jubelin which she originally created for Glasgow, Dead Slow (1992) and for Chicago and…
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Bad Toys, ACCA
Bad Toys used the toy as a departure point to examine our adult relationship to childhood and play.
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Primavera 1994: Young Australian Artists
Guest Curator Natalie King’s exhibition, investigated the way the MCA’s ensemble of art, architecture and installations orchestrates the visitor’s experience.
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The Subversive Stitch
In addressing the ideologies of modernism, particularly abstraction, the eleven artists included in ‘The Subversive Stitch’ exhibition at the Monash University Gallery expose and reframe the limits of modernism.