Winter 2021 Issue 328

1 Big targets: William Kelly’s Can Art Stop a Bullet?: Michael fitzgerald

William Kelly, Peace or War: The Big Picture, 2016, installation view, La Trobe Reading Room, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, 2016; limited edition print on archival paper, 1260 x 160cm; courtesy the artist

2 Seeking transcendence: ‘Out of the darkness’ at the Art Gallery of Ballarat: Koulla Roussos

James Money, Guilty/charged, 2017, ink and enamel on board; collection of Robert House; © James Money

3 Black sands and portals through time: Brett Graham’s Tai Moana Tai Tangata: anna-marie white

Brett Graham: Tai Moana Tai Tangata, exhibition installation views Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, 2020–21; courtesy the artist; photo: Neil Pardington

4 A collector’s offering: ‘Upacara’ at Mosman Art Gallery: Siobhan Campbell

Artist unknown, bald figure, East Java, fourteenth–fifteenth century; terracotta, 28 x 21 x 14cm; collection of Dr John Yu AC; photo: Tim Connolly

5 Ritual homage: ‘WARWAR’ at Newcastle Art Gallery: Brian Robinson

Dr Ken Thaiday Senior, hammerhead shark (beizam) headdress, n.d., wood, bamboo, feathers, paint, twine, 94 x 111.6 x 112cm; National Museum of Australia, Canberra; courtesy the artist; photo: Dean McNicoll

6 Daniel Boyd: Shadowing the Enlightenment: Erin Vink

Daniel Boyd, Pediment/Impediment, 2020, installation detail, Contemporary Art Project #1, Penelope Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, 2020–21; photo: David James

7 Icarus, my Son: Dean Cross

Dean Cross, Untitled collateral collage #1 (Right Wing Study), 2021, digital collage; courtesy the artist and Yavuz Gallery, Singapore and Sydney

8 Constructing a case for the first truly global contemporary medium: Genevieve Trail

Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974/2002, installation view, ‘Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art’, OCAT Shanghai, 2020–21; CCTV video installation; courtesy OCAT Shanghai

9 Publishing precedence: Michael Fitzgerald

NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1073 pages, AU$79.95   

10 Night Blue: Angela O’Keeffe

Jackson Pollock, Blue poles, 1952,  enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 x 488.9cm; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1973; © Pollock-Krasner Foundation, ARS/Copyright Agency

 
 

11 A sensate space: Nicole Ellis’s ‘Fabrications’: Craig Judd

Nicole Ellis, Light Matter Yellow, 2018, fabric and acrylic paint on canvas, 118.5 x 88cm; courtesy the artist; photo: Exact Image

12 Finding shadows in the sunlight: Michael Fitzgerald

Iso Rae, Young girl, Étaples, c. 1892, oil on canvas, 105.5 x 59.5cm; NGV, Melbourne, purchased with funds donated by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family, Professor Graham Peirson and Christine Peirson, and the Norma Atwell Bequest, 2020

13 Where am I going? Moments of illumination and doubt in the work of John Olsen: Chloé Wolifson

John Olsen, Where the bee sucks, there suck I, 1984–86, oil on composition board, 183 x 244.6cm; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, presented through the Art Foundation of Victoria by John Olsen, Governor, 1986

14 Antony Hamilton 1955 – 2020: Ross Wolfe

Antony Hamilton, c. 1975; courtesy Helen Fuller

15 Marr Roy Grounds 1930 – 2021: Nigel Lendon

Marr Grounds with Pete the dog, bunker installation, 2nd Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976; courtesy the artist’s estate