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STEVE DOW is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The A

Cressida Campbell captures something special about the everyday: the moment when the familiar suddenly appears meaningful and weighted. Her art graces our cover, where the intricateness of the world is made vast. As with every artist in this issue, C

EDITOR AND PODCAST PRODUCER Tiarney Miekus ASSISTANT EDITOR Autumn Royal WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Minna Gilligan GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jack Loel DESIGN ASSISTANT Girivarshan Balasubramanian CONTRIBUTORS ISSUE #139 Steve Dow, Briony Downes, Tri

Madame Mystery Anna Carey Artereal Gallery 16 September—15 October Madame Mystery is not a real person, but you can text her to learn your fortune. The mystical figure’s phone number emblazons magical shop fronts: she’s your psychic advisor, tarot re

Attempted Portraits Devonport Regional Gallery 3 September–12 November In every photograph there is a story, and in each captured face, a history. What drives our desire to be immortalised in photographs, and how do we hope to be remembered? Devonpor

Still tied to a tree Mark Valenzuela Adelaide Central School of Arts (SALA Festival) 26 July—16 September Art Gallery of South Australia (SALA festival) From 1 August For over a decade, Mark Valenzuela has interrogated colonisation, oppression and te

When Skirts Become Artworks: Sihoti’e Nioge Omie Tapa Artists Redland Art Gallery 21 August—9 October Since 2017, curator Joan Winter has been spending time with the Omie, an isolated community living in the remote rainforest mountains of Papua New G

None Living Knows John Young Moore Contemporary 5 October—12 November With various streams of work underway at any one time, John Young remains a nimble investigator of the intersection between traditional art making and the complexities of digital o

Riverside Lucy Turnbull Sauerbier House 24 September—29 October Lucy Turnbull has been artist in residence at Sauerbier House in South Australia’s beachside suburb of Port Noarlunga for only a few days when we discuss her plans for the exhibition whi

Which Made This Place Home Maddie Grammatopoulos Praxis Art Space 22 September—14 October When South Australian filmmaker Maddie Grammatopoulos began work on the multi-award-winning short film Which Made This Place Home, she set out to answer one que

Impossible Depth Nicola Scott Onespace 2—24 September “A painted surface is a real, living form,” wrote Kazimir Malevich, the Polish-Ukrainian Russian avant-garde artist. Malevich’s work has been influential for Nicola Scott and her exhibition Imposs

Michael Staniak STATION Gallery 6 September—1 October “I believe that every artist is now strongly linked with the screen and digital media,” says Michael Staniak, touching on a conceptual departure point for both his wider body of work, and his new

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Exploring Giant Molecules Sandra Selig University of New South Wales Galleries 27 August—20 November Sandra Selig has always worked with humble materials—thread, light, paper, salt, steel and wood—arranged in highly diverse forms. The Brisbane-based