Gina Fairley
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Review: Unearthed, Eden Gardens (NSW)
This sculpture event is a stellar example of how philanthropy can help artists take a deeper dive into thorny topics,…
ICYMI: the week’s top news stories in the arts
We take a look at this week's top news stories from around the galleries, on stage, the festival scene, wrapping…
Review: Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture, Cairns Art Gallery (QLD)
Familiar works that have shaped the landscape of Indigenous Australian identity are given a Blak lens - simply, this is…
A new curatorial partnership highlights Aboriginal innovation
Committing time to Indigenous storytelling, this Artbank exhibition is the culmination of two years of community-led curation with Tjungu Palya…
Unauthorised Banksy exhibition to hit Sydney
With rock concert fanfare, the buy-in Banksy blockbuster comes to town putting a new spin on how, and why, we…
Aboriginal art and activism, Queensland style
From ghost nets to urban collectives, to infiltrating white fella institutions and busting the gatekeepers through mentorship, Aboriginal art activism…
Move over country music; Artstate Tamworth is capturing our nation’s ear
It’s not regional arts practice; it’s great art practice that happens outside our cities. Artstate Tamworth is cracking open thinking…
Shaun Gladwell in Conversation
As a boy from Western Sydney who left school at 16, and fifteen years later was exhibiting at Venice Biennale,…
The return of Moon Mania, but are we asking the right questions?
Why Australia's space race is caught in nostalgia, when we should be asking if it’s responsible to glorify space advancement…
Review: Whiteley, Opera Australia (NSW)
Opera Australia has premiered its first new work in nearly a decade, and it’s quintessentially Australian, both in subject and…