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[Published in Treadlie, Issue 09, December 2012] There’s something unsettling about Wouter Van de Voorde’s photographs that you can’t quite pinpoint. The Belgian-born artist has been living in Canberra for the past three years, after emigrating with his wife Celia in 2008, but his vision of our capital is not the city we know from […]
September 7, 2012
[Published in Treadlie, Issue 08, September 2012] Street artist Stormie Mills captures images of urban life that are only perceivable on two wheels. Mills is fascinated by the people who exist in the city’s margins, occupying the nooks that we’d miss when hurtling past in a car. Working in an ominous palette of blacks, greys […]
May 2, 2012
This essay was published in Co–respond, a new arts-writing publication produced for artist-run gallery SEVENTH, which launched on May 2 2012. Co–respond explores the possibilities of collaboration and conversation between visual art and writing. Featuring written works by fifteen emerging writers, Co–respond critiques, expands and documents SEVENTH’s exhibition program from June 2011 to January 2012. […]
November 24, 2011
[Published in Meanjin, December 2011 Edition] Artistic collaboration in the written word is surprisingly rare. For all postmodernity’s declarations about the death of the author, poetry in particular has upheld some facade of the artist as solitary genius. The relationship between poet and muse may be more familiar, but the poet’s act of creation is […]
October 28, 2011
[Catalogue essay for Nina Siska's They're Together Again at No No Gallery, written in collaboration with Roger Nelson] RN: When Nina Siska first sent me some digital images from the They’re Together Again series, she attached an artist’s statement about the work. It described the series as a celebration of ‘the relationship between lovers, where […]
July 27, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1279, July 27 2011] When you pull into Heide Museum of Modern Art’s main car park, don’t be alarmed by the Le Pine Funerals sign that greets you. The map has not led you astray. And no, the gallery has not traded in culture for cadavers. The sign is part of […]
December 1, 2012
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