Reviews
Review: Terminus, Heide Museum of Modern Art (VIC)
Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s exhibition combines virtual reality, textile works, and retrofuturistic aesthetics.
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Malthouse Theatre (VIC)
There’s never been anything quite like this iteration of Wilde’s sparkling comedy in which Jon Haynes and David Woods perform…
Review: Torch the Place, Arts Centre Melbourne (VIC)
Benjamin Law’s theatre debut sparks joy – and a pile of other feelings.
Review: Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds, Perth Festival (WA)
A Perth Festival Commission with Paul Kelly and James Ledger creates a soundscape at times intimate and fragile, at others…
Review: Ian Strange - Suburban Interventions, John Curtin Gallery (WA)
Ian Strange restores empathy to suburbia, in the wake of economic and environment destruction, in this first survey exhibition of…
Book review: Sidney Nolan: The Artist’s Materials by Paula Dredge
Paula Dredge provides bold new insights into the work of this iconic Australian artist.
Review: No Pay? No Way!, Sydney Opera House (NSW)
Liberation takes many forms in Marieke Hardy’s stellar adaptation of Dario Fo’s classic Marxist farce.
Review: 2020 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide Fringe (SA)
Graduating visual artists articulate crucial issues through a wide range of media.
Review: Wansolwara: One Salt Water, UNSW Galleries (NSW)
This is a massive project and offers a massive rethink in the narratives we construct and hold around contemporary Pacific…
Review: What Every Girl Should Know, Brunswick Mechanics Institute (VIC)
Monica Byrne’s play is a subversive, feminist take on the familiar Catholic schoolgirl setting.