Reviews
Performance review: After Erika Eiffel, Let Me Dry Your Eyes, and Zinc (MONA FOMA)
Three new works presented as part of MONA FOMA 2021, created by BIG hART, Second Echo Ensemble and Hobart-based artist…
Dance Review: The Complication of Lyrebirds, C-A-C (Sydney Festival)
This debut work by Jasmin Sheppard is a potent and poetic metaphor for many First Nations Australians as they confront…
Dance Review: Explicit Contents (Sydney Festival)
Rhiannon Newton's latest offering is a meditation on the human body’s relationship to its sensory environment.
Book Review: Red Herrings for Breakfast by Annabet Ousback
In this poignant memoir, Ousback and her brother Anders endure a tough, confusing childhood steered by complex, demanding and rather…
Exhibition Review: NGV Triennial, NGV International
A wonderful and immersive experience, the Triennial takes the visitor on a long and circuitous journey through time and space.
Book Review: Road Rage by Fred Guilhaus
Road Rage – the stories of five cyclists and the person who mowed them down.
Music Review: Cycles, Sydney Chamber Choir (Sydney Festival)
Seasons, stars and the scent of eucalyptus trees.
Music Review: The Masque of the Red Death (MONA FOMA)
When gothic horror meets gothic humour, it’s gotta be MONA FOMA.
Exhibition Review: Djillong Dumularra, Artspace (Sydney Festival)
Solid conceptual framing, but does it get lost in festival fever? Artspace focuses on First Nations conversations for Sydney Festival…
Dance Review: All Expenses Paid, Stompin (MONA FOMA)
Stompin's latest work was originally supposed to be presented in April 2020, and has benefitted from the extra-long development process.