Alky Avramides

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Everyone loves Archie

Wandering around the Archibald, Australia’s biggest art prize, on the morning of the winner’s announcement was a new experience for me. I could sense...

Continuity

In this film-within-a-play, story telling, commerce and environmental catastrophe collide with hilarious and disturbing consequences. Anything that can go wrong does as a frazzled film crew battle to take their final shot.

Inside Mitch Cairns’ The Artist’s Mouth at NAS

Mitch Cairns returns to the National Art School with The Artist’s Mouth. After graduating twenty years ago, he presents his most comprehensive body of...

An intimate and moving queer drama exploring a love already doomed by internal demons.

Manifesting memory

If you had to make a collection of things that mattered to you, what would they be? Imagine you had to fill a room...

Not fit for purpose

For the past thirteen years, an exhibition of photographs and stories of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has toured the world. Launched...

The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

A brilliant performance by Simon Burke in an agonising portrayal of persecution.

The Searchers: tracing 50 years of rebellion and expression

Searchers. This is the National Art School’s current exhibition. I wondered about the name. How does it capture such eclectic, challenging art? Talking about the...

Experiment, revolve, create: Redfern’s new artist-run space

Step out of the Little Eveleigh Street exit of the newly upgraded Redfern Station, take a left and walk a few metres. Among the...

Ron Mueck – a very human encounter

As I enter the gallery I encounter the back of a naked woman. Only slightly larger than life, she stands heavy-footed in front of...

The art of caring

In a small two-storey terrace in the heart of a rambling strip of shops and bars in Redfern, across about five days in late...

What My Eyes See

The night passes slowly, too slowly. The streets appear a little wet or are they just reflecting colours falling from lit café windows?

The Tail

There’s something about Nick’s work that makes you look – even look back.

Constraint and spontaneity

Gemma Smith is an Australian artist with a unique and marvellous output. Her paintings engage the viewer in unexpected ways.