Art Criticism

December 2021

An Exhibition of Antipodal Dialogue

How Australian Culture is reinventing the doctrine of ‘Terra Nullius’ as an inclusive ‘Terra Artis’.

Almost three decades have passed since the infamous ‘Mabo Decision’, in which Eddie Koiki Mabo submitted evidence of his intimate, inherited knowledge of the natural landscape before The High Court of Australia. Annotated in English, for the benefit of the Justices, this…

a preponderance of aboriginal blood 2005 Judy Watson born 1959 Tate and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, with support from the Qantas Foundation 2015, purchased 2016 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P82511

December 2021

An Autumn at the SVAF Kaleidoscope Gallery

with Guy A. Forster-Pearce

Returning to Sevenoaks during the summer, having spent three years at University, I was eager to get a taste of the local art scene between continued studies. I found myself at the very library to which I was a member through my primary and secondary years…

The Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum at the Kaleidoscope Gallery. Photo from cultureinkent.org

December 2021

You can’t turn wrong when Goldsmiths’ CCA has you set

on a strict arrow-pathed production line between galleries where sheets, skins and statues are unpacked before your very eyes.

One of those artists is Olivia Sterling. A Fine Art MAs graduate of the @royalcollegeofart she was distanced from her studio during the pandemic. Truly, an…

All Inclusive 1&2 (or the Last two Chocolate Cakes at the Holiday buffet) by Olivia Sterling, 2021.

December 2021

Craving an intimate affair with gay men?

Head to the latest exhibition ruminating on the height of London’s AIDS pandemic complete with rotting apples & pixelated splodges.

Coinciding with this year’s PrEP Awareness Week and World AIDS Day artist Roelof Bakker’s ‘The Spots That Never Went’…

Forbidden Fruit (Queer), ‘The Spots That Never Went’ by Roeloff Bakker, 2018.

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