Next on the List draws from Alvin’s cultural understanding of climate shift and the impacts of changing land use. It proposes a contemporary and evolving perspective on humans as a species now threatened in our present and future climate change context. Specifically, Alvin brings together elements created in timber and uses pyrography to speak to […]
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One of Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus’ best known works is Barmah Forest (1994), an eerily serene scene of Biyala (river red gums) immersed and reflected in water, not unlike the later Floodwater ‘Wooroong Nucko’ (1995) that explicitly represents the Dungala (Murray River) in flood. In Barmah Forest, what might at first appear a realist
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Still Life: The Food Bowl (2011) by Ken and Julia Yonetani forms part of the Mildura Art Centre’s (MAC) collection of contemporary art. It is a sculptural installation featuring a life-size produce-laden table. The work emerged from a three-month residency the artists undertook in Mildura in 2010 as part of the arts festival Palimpsest, sponsored
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Drought as a Femme Fatale or mischievous nymph: Story: At the time of the short sharp Centennial drought (1888) and the beginning of the Federation drought (1895), two of Australia’s leading painters who had made their name interpreting the local landscape through the benign language of Impressionism drew instead on the far darker Symbolism in
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