August 2014 Issue 272

1 State of independence: New South Wales’s new funding paradigm: JANE SOMERVILLEJames Deutsher, menvra/CASA, installation view, Minerva, Sydney, 2014; image courtesy Minerva, Sydney

1 State of independence: New South Wales’s new funding paradigm: JANE SOMERVILLE

James Deutsher, menvra/CASA, installation view, Minerva, Sydney, 2014; image courtesy Minerva, Sydney

2 Lismore Regional Gallery: Past, present, future: SHARNE WOLFFEmily Hunt, Quoits & Goat Skins (detail), 2013, watercolour and ink on paper, 110 x 75.5 x 5cm; image courtesy the artist and The Commercial Gallery, Sydney; © the artist

2 Lismore Regional Gallery: Past, present, future: SHARNE WOLFF

Emily Hunt, Quoits & Goat Skins (detail), 2013, watercolour and ink on paper, 110 x 75.5 x 5cm; image courtesy the artist and The Commercial Gallery, Sydney; © the artist

3 Bearing witness: The Refugee Art Project: SAFDAR AHMEDSaad Tlaa, Portrait of Josefa, pen and watercolour on paper, 29 x 41cm; image courtesy the artist and the Refugee Art Project

3 Bearing witness: The Refugee Art Project: SAFDAR AHMED

Saad Tlaa, Portrait of Josefa, pen and watercolour on paper, 29 x 41cm; image courtesy the artist and the Refugee Art Project

4 ‘I keep finding myself in Parramatta’: MICHAEL DAGOSTINO AND SOPHIA KOUYOUMDJIANArtist Jodie Whalen in her studio at Parramatta Artists Studios, 2013; photo: Alex Wisser; image courtesy and © Parramatta Artists Studio

4 ‘I keep finding myself in Parramatta’: MICHAEL DAGOSTINO AND SOPHIA KOUYOUMDJIAN

Artist Jodie Whalen in her studio at Parramatta Artists Studios, 2013; photo: Alex Wisser; image courtesy and © Parramatta Artists Studio

5 Drawing the mark: 50 years of Watters Gallery: GLENN BARKLEYFrank Watters and Tony Tuckson in the artist’s Wahroonga studio, choosing works for Tuckson’s first solo exhibition at Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1970; image and photo courtesy Margaret Tuc…

5 Drawing the mark: 50 years of Watters Gallery: GLENN BARKLEY

Frank Watters and Tony Tuckson in the artist’s Wahroonga studio, choosing works for Tuckson’s first solo exhibition at Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1970; image and photo courtesy Margaret Tuckson

6 Material elaborations – Sarah Cottier Gallery: 1994–2014: JAMES PAULLPages from 20/200, 2014; image courtesy Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; photo: Ashley Barber

6 Material elaborations – Sarah Cottier Gallery: 1994–2014: JAMES PAULL

Pages from 20/200, 2014; image courtesy Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; photo: Ashley Barber

7 Gail Hastings: Sculptuations: JUDITH BLACKALLGail Hastings, Exhibition: To Do, 2014, installation view, showing (left wall) Corner caretakers and (centre floor) Exhibition: To Do, The Commercial, Sydney, 2014; image courtesy the artist and The Com…

7 Gail Hastings: Sculptuations: JUDITH BLACKALL

Gail Hastings, Exhibition: To Do, 2014, installation view, showing (left wall) Corner caretakers and (centre floor) Exhibition: To Do, The Commercial, Sydney, 2014; image courtesy the artist and The Commercial, Sydney; photo: Sofia Freeman

8 Ken Unsworth: Conjuring art: TONY BONDKen Unsworth, Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual and burial piece, from the series ‘Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual and burial piece’, 1975, silver gelatine photograph, 28.3 x 19.2cm, …

8 Ken Unsworth: Conjuring art: TONY BOND

Ken Unsworth, Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual and burial piece, from the series ‘Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual and burial piece’, 1975, silver gelatine photograph, 28.3 x 19.2cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, purchased 1976. photo: AGNSW © Ken Unsworth

9 Two soliloquies in a rhythm: A conversation about curatorial collaboration: NATALIE KING AND DJON MUNDINEboat-people, Muffled Protest, 2010, documentation, Federation Square, Melbourne, dimensions variable; image courtesy the artists. photo: Tanja…

9 Two soliloquies in a rhythm: A conversation about curatorial collaboration: NATALIE KING AND DJON MUNDINE

boat-people, Muffled Protest, 2010, documentation, Federation Square, Melbourne, dimensions variable; image courtesy the artists. photo: Tanja Milbourne

10 Floating with form: Matisse’s cut-outs at the Tate: ANNE-MARIE JEANHenri Matisse (1869 -1964); image courtesy Tate Modern, London; photo: Lydia Delectorskaya. © Succession Henri Matiss

10 Floating with form: Matisse’s cut-outs at the Tate: ANNE-MARIE JEAN

Henri Matisse (1869 -1964); image courtesy Tate Modern, London; photo: Lydia Delectorskaya. © Succession Henri Matiss