Gina Fairley
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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…
The Aboriginal art fair that takes no commission on sales
100% of art sale earnings go to exhibiting artists and art centres, making Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair one of the…
Review: Naomi Hobson, Adolescent Wonderland, Cairns Art Gallery (QLD)
A creative chameleon, Naomi Hobson is a surprising talent and her new photographic series flutters between that awkward and deadly…
Review: The DNA of Colour: Ildiko Kovacs, ANU Drill Gallery (ACT)
Kovacs continues to push her medium while remaining true to her DNA.
How wall colour manipulates the audience
ArtsHub speaks with six curators on the merits of painting gallery walls to heighten audience engagement, build narrative or just…
It's a new dawn, it's a new day - CIAF is a frontier for artistic sustainability
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, we speak with Artistic Director of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Janina Harding on how remote communities…