Reviews

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Sara Elson
Sarah Elson Anigozanthos (eudaimonia hybrid) 5 August - 2 September 2007 Galerie Desseldorf, Perth
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The Ranger
The Ranger Julie Gough SASA Gallery, Adelaide 12-28 September 2007
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Topsy
Topsy Eleanor Avery, Ray Cook, Kim Demuth, Alice Lang, David Spooner, Grubbanax Swinnasen. Curator Chris Comer Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane 5 - 22 September 2007
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Anne and Gordon Samstag, Museum of Art
This article previews the new Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, opened on 11 October 2007, which is discussed as a significant addition to art exhibition spaces in Adelaide in terms of scale, capacity and technology. This museum, designed by multi-award winning Melbourne architect John Wardle, is a public space in which artwork, in its selection, hanging, and experience, cannot ignore the active engagement of visitors. The Samstag Museum of Art plays a part in extending the role of museums into new categories of cultural industries, and the complicated relations between leisure, knowledge and libidinal economies.
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Pippin Drysdale; Design, Craft and the Smart Syndrome
Pippin Drysdale Lines of Site By Ted Snell Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2007 174pp rrp $45 Recently published in Perth with support from Arts WA is an incisive monograph on West Australian ceramist Pippin Drysdale by Ted Snell. Snell has written a substantial book of five chapters, dividing Drysdales artistic evolution into four eras. Through in-depth engagement with particular vessels or series Snell traces her increasing mastery of the allusive and abstract power of the ceramic medium. Smart Works Design and the Handmade Edited by Grace Cochrane Powerhouse Publishing 192pp rrp $35.95 This publication is in many respects an exemplary book of an exemplary exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum and is about design that reflects the values of the handmade. With 40 individuals and groups represented across the categories of jewellery and metalwork, ceramics, glass and resin, fashion and textiles, and furniture this publication encompasses a truly diverse range of approaches from totally hand-crafted to high-tech manufacture.
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TOGart
TOGart Contemporary Art Award 2007 Parliament House, Darwin 12 July - 30 July 2007
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Thresholds of Tolerance
Thresholds of Tolerance ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra 10 May - 5 June 2007
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Freestyle: New Australian Design
Freestyle: new Australian design for living Curator: Brian Parkes QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 1 June - 22 July 2007
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Unsettled: 10 Posters
Unsettled: 10 Posters Inkahoots RAW Space Galleries, Brisbane June 2007
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A Constructed World
Increase Your Uncertainty A Constructed World Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2 June - 26 July 2007
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The Rules of Engagement
Rules of Engagement Curator: Mark Feary West Space 25 May - 16 June 2007
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Eternal Beautiful Now
Eternal Beautiful Now Curator: Tania Doropoulos Sherman Galleries, Sydney 10 - 26 May 2007
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New Deities
New Deities: art and the cult of celebrity Curator: Catherine Wolfhagen Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania 30 June - 29 July 2007
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Snap Freeze
Snap Freeze Curator: Jenna Blyth Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria 20 May - 11 November 2007
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Room
Room Curator: Derek Hart CAST Gallery, Hobart 26 May - 17 June 2007
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Hatched
Hatched 07 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 20 April - 24 June 2007
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Emma Northey
Lucent Drones Emma Northey Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide 16 May - 24 June 2007
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Ms & Mr
Heavy Sentimental Ms & Mr Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 1 - 30 June 2007
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Bridget Currie, James Dodd, Louise Haselton, Laura Wills
parkside nomadic group moves inland 4 winter : Laura Wills Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1 June - 8 July 2007 Years without Magic: Louise Haselton & Bridget Currie SASA Gallery, UNISA, Adelaide 12 June - 6 July 2007 Speakeasy: James Dodd Experimental Art Foundation 13 July - 18 August 2007
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Matt Hunt
Cause I see the Light Surrounding You, so Dont Be Afraid Matthew Hunt Turner Galleries, Perth 1 - 30 June 2007
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Turbulence: Third Auckland Triennial
Turbulence: Third Auckland Triennial Curator: Victoria Lynn 9 March - 4 June 2007
Visual Animals Symposium

Visual Animals: crossovers, evolution and new aesthetics Curator: Ian North Art Gallery of South Australia/CACSA 18 - 19 April 2007

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Eyes Lies and Illusions
Eyes Lies and Illusions Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne 2 November 2006 - 11 February 2007
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The Weather Report: James Guppy
James Guppy: The Weather Reports Brenda May Gallery, Sydney 6 February  3 March 2007
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Intimate Epics: Richard Woldendorp
Richard Woldendorp: Intimate Epics Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth 3 - 24 February 2007
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The One and the Many
Curators: Holly Arden and Chris Handran Griffith University, DELL Gallery Queensland College of Art 17 February  14 April 2007
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saltwaterfreshwater
saltwaterfreshwater Curator: Thelma John Central TAFE Gallery, Perth 10 - 28 April 2007
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Sneakers: Classic to Customs
Sneakers: Classics to Customs Curator: Roger Leong National Gallery of Victoria 16 December 2006 - 8 July 2007
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Part & Particle: Denise Ava Robinson
Part and particle Denise Ava Robinson Burnie Regional Art Gallery 2 February  11 March 2007
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Blood Sweat & Fears: Penny Byrne
Penny Byrne: Blood Sweat and Fears Sullivan +Strumpf Fine Art Sydney 6  25 March 2007
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Port Adelaide: Rites of Passage
Port Adelaide : Rites of Passage Curator: Margot Osborne Adelaide Central Gallery 30 March  21 April 2007
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Stranded: Neil Haddon
Neil Haddon: Stranded Criterion Gallery, Hobart 22 March  21 April 2007
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Project Belonging: Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan Project Belonging: Another country Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane 16  28 April 2007
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Review: Visible Language magazine on Fluxus
Review of two special issues of Visible Language magazine Vol 39 no 3 'Fluxus and Legacy' (2005) and Vol 40 no 1 'Fluxus after Fluxus' (2006), guest- edited by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith. The publications evaluate the ongoing life of Fluxus as an idea including what Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics owes to it. Fluxus 'scores' by Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, and Vuc Cosic.
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APT5
5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane 2 December - 27 May 2007
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APT5
5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane 2 December - 27 May 2007
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The Other APT
Raw Space Galleries
99 Melbourne St, South Brisbane
28 November 2006 - 23 January 2007
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Ann Newmarch
Anticipation Ann Newmarch Prospect Gallery Adelaide 5 - 26 November 2006
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Northcliffe Sculpture Walk
The Southern Forest Sculpture Walk Northcliffe, Western Australia Permanent artworks, launched 25 November 2006
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Megan Walch
Doppel Lecker: Megan Walch Criterion Gallery Hobart 12 October  - 11 November 2006
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Adam Cuthbert
Warporn Adam Cuthbert CAST Gallery Hobart 28 October - 26 November, 2006
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Michael Callaghan: a survey
Michael Callaghan: A survey 1967 -2006 1 December 2006 - 21 January 2007 Manly Art Gallery 2 - 24 March 2007 Tin Sheds, University of Sydney 5 May- 24 June 2007 Wollongong City Gallery
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RAPT
Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan Nobuya Hoki, Tomoaki Ishihara, Yuki Kimura Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) Clayton, Victoria 6 Sept - 18 November 2006
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Rodney Glick/Lynette Voevedin
24Hr Panoramas Rodney Glick and Lynnette Voevodin Curator: Gary Dufour Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth 16 November 2006 - 21 January 2007
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Anton Hart
Thenatureofthings Anton Hart South Australian School of Art Gallery Adelaide 2 November - 23 November 2006
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Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa New Media Gallery, Level 3 National Gallery of Victoria International Melbourne 7 July - 3 December 2006
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Shane Forrest
Shane Forrest: Float A-Space on Cleveland Sydney November 8-15, 2006
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Nick Mangan
The Mutant Message Nick Mangan Sutton Gallery Melbourne 21 October- 15 November 2006
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Joan Kerr: Unfinished Business
Art historian critic, essayist, heritage consultant, the late Joan Kerr was writing of the Irish-Australian women who passed though the Hyde Park Barracks wondering whether their presence was effectively mediated into the Irish Famine sculpture. Furthermore she added we dont want to remember them solely in piety as what has melted away in dismemberment and loss. Ironically Joan could be prophetically setting out the appropriate moodscape for her own memorialising. In the words of her husband who has compiled a partisan and intimate memoir of this distinguished artworld figure, Joan had a natural capacity to prick pretension and kick against the pricks of perceived injustice
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City of Perth PhotoMedia Award
City of Perth PhotoMedia Award Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) 5 October - 5 November 2006
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Guan Wei
Unfamiliar Land Guan Wei Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 16 June  - 23 July 2006
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John Vella: Fume
Fume John Vella Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania 9 September - 8 October 2006
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Eleanor Avery: Boomtown
Boomtown Eleanor Avery Blacklab, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 26 August - 13 September 2006
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Primavera 06
Primavera 06 Curated by Aaron Seeto Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 13 September - 19 November 2006
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Roger Ballen
Shadow Chamber Roger Ballen Stills Gallery, Sydney 16 August - 16 September 2006
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pvi collective
reform pvi collective Northbridge, Perth 25 May - 4 June 2006
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A Man's World
A Man's World John Beard, Gordon Bennett, Jon Campbell, Adam Cullen, Andrew Curtis, Dani Marti, Noel McKenna, Euan McLeod, James Mellon, Glenn Morgan, Ben Morieson, Charles Robb, Gareth Sansom, David Wadelton Curated by Frank McBride Museum of Brisbane 18 July - 19 November 2006
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video/performance nights at Downtown
Local Video & Performance Nights McKay/Siebert & Viv Miller; Shimmeeshok; Emma Northey & Stephen Roedel 6, 20, 27 September 2006 Downtown Artspace, Adelaide
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Irrunytju Arts
Irrunytju Arts: Senior Artists from Irrunytju 12 August - 9 September 2006 Raft Artspace, Parap, NT
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Decorama at Inflight
Decorama at Inflight Fiona Lee Inflight Gallery, Hobart 2 - 30 September 2006
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Louise Weaver
Taking a Chance on Love: Selected Works 1990 - 2006 Louise Weaver 9 July - 27 August 2006 McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
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Alicia King: i'm growing to love you
I'm growing to love you Linden, St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts Victoria, Melbourne 18 August - 24 September 2006
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Life is Getting Longer
Life Is Getting Longer Michael Bullock (Aus), Eleanor Crook (UK), Nick Devlin (Aus/UK), Jon Jones (UK), Justine Khamara (Aus), Steven Rendall (Aus/UK) Curated by Steven Rendall VCA Gallery, Melbourne 1 - 24 June 2006
Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006

Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006 Laura Murray Cree (ed) Craftsman House ISBN 0 9757684 1 7 RRP $95

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Biennale of Sydney 2006
Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pier 2/3 and 14 other venues in and around Sydney 8 June  27 August 2006
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Tracey Clement: Border Zones
Groundfloor Gallery, Balmain SafARI, Pelt, Chippendale Sculpture, installation, jewellery http://www.groundfloorgallery.com/ 14 June - 1 July 2006
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Deluxe: decorous crossover between art and design
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Hobart 6 - 26 May 2006
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d&k we see a darkness
spectrum project space, Perth 25 March 13 April 2006
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Terra Incognita
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Melbourne 26 May 24 June 2006
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Bloom: Anna Hughes, Lisa Harms & Kaylie Weir
Queens Theatre Adelaide 29 April 21 May 2006
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Office 6000
Level 2/16 Milligan Street, Perth, 27 - 31 March 2006
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
James Lynch. Sean Meilak. Viv Miller. Jonathan Nichols. Lisa Radford. Michelle Ussher Curated by Jan Duffy and Kate Barber Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts 8 July - 13 August 2006
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Michael Schlitz prints
Dick Bett Gallery Hobart 9 June - 4 July 2006
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et al: the second of the ordinary practices
The second of the ordinary practices et al Institute of Modern Art Brisbane 10 June - 22 July
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Mike Stubbs: Burnt
Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide 21 April  20 May 2006
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Kim Demuth: Signs of Life
Jan Manton Art, Brisbane 23 June - 15 July 2006
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Confluence: Palimpsest
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery 24 July 31 August 2006
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Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990 - 2005
University Art Museum University of Queensland, Brisbane 26 November 2005 - 5 February 2006
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Strange Strolls
Strange Strolls Curator: Perdita Phillips Participating Artists: Begum Basdas (Istanbul), Paulo Bernardino and Maria Manuela Lopes (Lisbon), Viv Corringham (London), Robert Curgenven (Katherine), Lawrence English (Brisbane), Aaron Coates Hull (Wollongong), Minaxi May (Fremantle), Roxane Permar (Shetland Islands), Perdita Phillips (Fremantle), Virve Pulver and Aili Vahtrapuu (Estonia), Ric Spencer (Fremantle), Kieran Stewart (Perth), Dorothee von Rechenberg (Switzerland), and Walter van Rijn (Netherlands) 18 November - 18 December 2005 Moores Building, Fremantle
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Adam Costenoble: The Chamber
Adam Costenoble: The Chamber 17 - 27 November, 2005 Pelt Gallery, Sydney
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Tides Apart: Pippa Dickson and Justy Phillips
tides apart Pippa Dickson and Justy Phillips 3 - 23 December 2005 Inflight Gallery, Hobart
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Plots from the Left
Plots from the Left A series of installations based on the notion of collecting and collections Penny Malone and Shaz Harrison-Williams Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, Tasmania 1 - 14 December 2005
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2006 Contemporary Commonwealth
Australian Centre for the Moving Image: 24 February - 21 May National Gallery of Victoria 24 February - 25 June Festival Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
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Festival Melbourne 2006
Visual arts at the Commonwealth Games March - April 2006
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21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Curated by Linda Michael Art Gallery of South Australia 4 March - 7 March 2006
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Colliding Worlds, First Contact in the Western Desert 1932-1984
Curated by Philip Batty Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Centre Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 18 February - 28 May 2006
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An Overview: 'Roots and All'
Visual Arts at the 2006 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts
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What Survives: Sonic Residues in Breathing Buildings
Performance Space, Sydney 25 March - 22 April 2006
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The Late Sessions
Videos presented by 1/2 dozen Curated by the 'pixel pirates', Soda_Jerk George Street Cinema, Sydney 25 January 2006
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Other(wize)
Fire-Works Gallery Brisbane 25 November - 24 December 2006
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The Bentinck Project
Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane 7 April - 28 May 2006
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Corrupting Youth
Curated by Tristan Stowards Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart 4 March - 2 April 2006
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Excess: Penny Mason
Academy Gallery, Inveresk, Tasmania 13 February - 7 April 2006
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Miriam Stannage: Sensation
John Curtin Gallery, Perth 10 February - 13 April 2006
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FotoFreo 2006
The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography 25 March - 25 April 2006
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Painting Ghosts: 'Australian Women Artists in Wartime'
Book Review: Catherine Speck Painting Ghosts: Australian Women Artists in Wartime Craftsman House/Thames & Hudson, 2004 ISBN 1 877004 22 7 HC, 239 pp, 121 illus, rrp AUD $70
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Istanbul Biennale the 9th Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul is wonderful, especially when a major contemporary art event  the 2005 9th International Istanbul Biennial - complements Ottoman glories, the odd bit of 5th century Christian Emperor Justinian, eponymous baths, acres of bazaar, and an elegant gloss on life.
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Feast to Feast: PACifika
Queensland College of Art 18 December 2005
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