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Jan Hogan, PhD, in relaxation mode… Congratulations!

Congratulations to PhD alumnus Danie Mellor, whose work  – From Rite to Ritual – is the winning entry in this year’s $40,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Read how Danie positions himself in relation to the diverse field of Indigenous art – and then read Nicolas Rothwell’s ambiguous commentary on the outcome:

“What emerges from this show is not just the familiar sense that the best art being made in remote communities rivals the best in contemporary fine art. Rather, one takes away the conviction that other artists are now equally predominant: conscious artists, indigenous artists in the flow of Australian life.”

Unwittingly, Rothwell takes a step into a theoretical no-man’s-land: he makes the distinction between indigenous work that is assured, professional, competent which, “for all their splendour, are outshone by less accomplished, more poignant works”. In this manner he opposes this tendency in the established bush art centres with the little-known urban artists “often naive in technique” – which he seems to prefer. One more step and he’ll be talking about outsider art and indigenous art in the same breath! Boom!

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has a virtual exhibition of the Award show.

is almost an ANU School of Art alumna (feminine of alumnus, singular of alumni, or alumnae, not sure which, a pompous academic signal that someone has graduated from the ANU) but that hasn’t slowed her down! Janet is a typo away from completing her MPhil in Ceramics. Go to glasscentralcanberra to find the news of her latest exhibition at the Bega Regional Gallery.

On 5th July, recent MPhil graduate Victoria Lees will be exhibition some of the work from her graduating exhibition in Fixity at Seedling Art Space, Adelaide.

Read down this review from The Art Life to find the reference to Ceramics graduate Ken Yonetani’s participation in the Biennale of Venice. Ken made his first sugar reefs while on course here… Congratulations Ken!

Heather Burness (MPhil 2004) is showing new work in Adelaide at artroom5
- a zoom on this work: Journey to the Wimmera/ Layers in the sand/ Blood #1” etching from plates inserted into salty groundwater flow near Tarranyurk, 2007 tells us it is not easy to reproduce.

Here’s a set of 64 mini-vids by the mobile politics collective. Work your way past the rather funereal and ungroovy front page, and on the right hand side you will find directional buttons which allow you to see sets of four tiny thumbnails of each video. Well worth the journey, and along the way you’ll find works by Lucien Leon, Ivo Lovric, Charlie Sofo, Dan Bell, Reuben Ingall, Liang Luscombe, and Trish Roan. All ANU School of Art, either alumni, or still with us! Click on an image and you’re there! And there’s another button below if you wish to download. How you get it on your phone is another story…

at ANCA Dickson, next two weeks… but be prepared for darkness and the horror vacui when you read the story…