Tag: Melbourne

  • Jenny Crompton: ‘I enjoy sitting in the work for hours. It becomes a meditation’

    Australian artist Jenny Crompton explains how she made her installation Sea Country Spirits, and talks about discovering her Wadawurrung heritage and how it changed her practice as she moved away from man-made materials to using materials she collects from the…

  • Ron Mueck: Sculptures at the National Galleries of Scotland

    5 August-1 October 2006 The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), has mounted a superb exhibition which, for the most part of the festival period, has adjoined the fine exhibition on the work of…

  • Antipodean Springtime: Letter from Australia

    September-October in Australia was intended to be entirely for family reasons and I made an effort to avoid work and therefore exhibitions. Impossible. As my book Contemporary Australian Drawing, (Metasenta/Macmillan) had just been launched in Melbourne, in June, regrettably in…

  • Patrick Tjungurrayi and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

    Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 1–25 July 2009. by Dr JANET McKENZIE Since 1999 Scott Livesey Galleries has mounted an annual exhibition of work from Aboriginal communities, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. As a tenth anniversary, the…

  • Book review: Marvellous Melbourne

    Design City Melbourne. Leon van Schaik. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the ‘World City’ genre beyond those established by Academy Group in the 1990s…

  • Libeskind impacting Denver

    What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.

  • The Architecture of the Last Empire

    The past decade has seen a growing interest in the British Indian Empire and its inner social and economic mysteries. But the physical legacy, in architectural terms, still awaits re-assessment. Indeed, while many of the buildings which remain are carefully…

  • Aalto Gathering in Finland

    An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…

  • Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era

    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 9 December 2005-26 March 2006 National Museum of Australia, Canberra 21 April-4 June 2006 The exhibition ‘Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era’ has succeeded in seizing the imagination of thousands…

  • The Triumph of Painting. Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984The Saatchi Gallery, London.

    The Saatchi Gallery, London. January – December 2005.