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Rhodes. Image is a surreal piece of art in a golden frame, a picture of a young woman in a black cloak holding a closed fan in a red gloved hand. Her face is painted blue, yellow and white and there is a perspex or glass box around her head. She is standing in front of a block of flats.
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Exhibition review: Katrina Rhodes and Stefano Ives, Fortyfivedownstairs

Two virtuosos of Australian surrealist art share a gallery in Melbourne’s CBD with captivating results.

Ukraine Guernica. Image is a painting of a wartorn destruction with a large teddy bear sitting in the middle and a skull floating in the right hand top corner.
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Exhibition review: George Gittoes: Ukraine Guernica, Hazelhurst Arts Centre

The desolation and insanity of war is on stark display in this powerful exhibition.

Video still Cao Fei. Woman in astronaut suit looking into a window with her likeness inside.
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Sydney summer blockbusters announced

Surrealist legend René Magritte, cyber futurist Chinese artist Cao Fei and US painter Julie Mehretu – all head to Sydney…

Washington DC. A gallery space with large red and white installation of phrases, including WHOSE BODY? and WHOSE BELIEFS? diagonally up the sides of escalators and WHOSE POWER? on the back wall. Another incomplete sentence is on the floor, and a young boy looks on with his back to us from the bottom left corner of the frame.
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Postcard from Washington DC

ArtsHub takes a trip to the US capital, and finds much more than politics...

SOL Gallery. Image by artist Demetrious Vakras of night sky and a naked woman facing away from us, her lower half dissolving into an x-ray type biomechanical image. To her right is a small fire and to her left is a skull.
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Exhibition review: Andrew Fyfe, Joanna Wolthuizen, Lee-Anne Raymond, Demetrios Vakras, SOL Gallery

SOL Gallery’s latest exhibition is another triumph of Melbourne’s artistic diversity and character.

Linda Judge. Bayside Painting Prize. Image is a painting of a short grey-haired woman in a black round neck top holding up a loosely woven grey textile in front of her.
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All in the family: the winning painting touches on matters of mortality and motherhood

Linda Judge has won the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize.

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Exhibition review: Mac Hewitt, Ellen Giannikos, Andrew Anka, Anthony Jackman, Gerard Russo, SOL Gallery

Mythical worlds, dreamlike vignettes, colour-drenched abstractions and twisted Dadaism all feature in SOL Gallery’s latest feast of Melbourne art. 

Image is a conceptual artwork that is a frame of 64 rectangular shapes laid out in eight rows with a black bold framework around and between them. Characters.
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Exhibition review: Characters, Hayden's Gallery

Six contemporary women artists using conceptual art to explore change, process and the philosophy of art.

Ginklet art. Image is a ceramic two-headed grey creature with horns and big red lips.
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Exhibition review: Adrian Cox, Catriona Secker, Katie Gamb, Ginklet, Beinart Gallery

Melbourne’s world-class surrealist art gallery delivers again with incredible Australian and international talent. 

Man with children looking a sculpture of pregnant woman in gallery. Ron Mueck
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Does spend equal impact?

Taking the pulse on the National Gallery’s Collection share.

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