Gina Fairley
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Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour - Carmen
Sassy sexy Carmen brightens up these damp Autumn nights, vocally spectacular and with dance numbers to rival a golden Hollywood.
Career Spotlight: Parliament House Collection Manager
Helping Parliamentarians select art work for their offices, and coping with over a million visitors a year, is all part…
Advice from artists who run businesses
Sustaining a creative practice while running a business is a tough juggle as an artist. We talk with those doing…
Art titans wield power over Venice Biennale selection
The number crunch on artists representing Australia at the Venice Biennale shows two prominent galleries greatly dominate selection.
First look at Tracey Moffatt’s Venice work
Ambiguously located images tell a story of Indigenous dispossession, landing a velvet punch on global audiences for the Venice Biennale.
Corporate collections doing controversy
Corporate collections are traditionally the bastion of conservatism. Allens Linklaters flips the tables on the corporate brand with edgy commissions.
$50,000 figurative art prize + sculpture with a social message
Newcastle Art Gallery cracks open our sense of self with entries open for a $50,000 figurative prize, and two major…
Inspire60: Ian Strange
Perth-born artist Ian Strange has an unusual relationship with suburbia, but it was a move to New York nearly a…
Plastic replicas make an art form of the copy
Artist Sarah Goffman reuses plastic in a clever pun that references history, while criticising contemporary society.
How colour blind artists cope
Good eyesight might seem to be a prerequisite for an artists but from Impressionist Edgar Degas to cyborg Neil Harbisson,…