April 2018 Issue 306
1 Dispatches: Andrew Stephens
Peter Maloney, Untitled, c. 1995, collage and mixed media on paper, 72.6 x 54.8cm, Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
2 Notes from the field: Chloé Wolifson
Fiona Connor, Closed Down Clubs, Circus of Books, 2016–17; image courtesy the artist and Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington
3 The Howard Hinton Collection: A magnificent obsession: Andrew Frost, Armidale
Hinton: Treasures of Australian Art, exhibition installation view, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 2018, with (detail, left): Julian Ashton, The Awakening, 1902; photo: Simon Scott Photo
4 Scintillating signifiers: ‘Flora’ at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery: Ann Schilo, Perth
Flora, exhibition installation view, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the University of Western Australia, Perth, 2018; image courtesy the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery; photo: Caine Chennatt
5 Between nature and culture: ‘The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’ at TMAG: Jan Hogan and Benjamin J. Richardson, Hobart
Matt Calvert, Shadow devil, 2017, installation view, 'The Remarkable Tasmanian Devil’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), Hobart, 2018; toughened glass, 50 x 75 x 12cm, TMAG, Hobart; photo: Mathew Farrell
6 From sadness to sunshine: ‘The Unflinching Gaze’ at BRAG: Pedro de ALMEiDA, Bathurst
William Yang, Allan, from the series ‘Sadness’, 1988–90, detail; installation view, ‘The Unflinching Gaze: Photo Media and the Male Figure’, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG), 2017; image courtesy BRAG; photo: Silversalt Photography
7 ‘I can’t believe I still have to protest this fucking shit’: Janine Burke, Melbourne
Ali Gumillya Baker, Racist texts, 2014/17, detail; installation view, ‘Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2017–18; image courtesy the artist; photo: Andrew Curtis
8 Ryan Presley: ‘Prosperity'
Blood Money – Fifty Dollar Note – Fanny Balbuk Commemorative, 2011, watercolour on Arches paper, 40.5 x 91.5cm; image courtesy the artist; photo: Carl Warner
9 Mutlu Çerkez: Fake or fortune?: Audrey Schmidt, Melbourne
Mutlu Çerkez: 1988-2065, exhibition installation view, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2018; photo: Andrew Curtis
10 Michael Hobbs 1934 – 2018: Patricia Anderson
Jon Lewis, Michael Hobbs, c. 1975, silver gelatin print; image courtesy Katharine Glass
11 Michael Whitworth 1947 – 2017: Candice Bruce
Michael Whitworth at the exhibition ‘We used to talk about love’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013; image courtesy Candice Bruce
