Category: Artists You Need to Know

Exhibition Review: Time by Rone, Flinders Street Station

  Its 1953. Rows of women rush to complete the seams on their final garments. As thread spins rapidly around the cogs and the whirring of sewing machines echo through the room, chatter of prospective weekend activities disperse. Its 16.57 on a Friday, and there is a shared determination amongst the workers to get the […]

Exhibition Review: Carla Zampatti at the Powerhouse, Sydney

  I’m going to be honest, writing about fashion is a little out of my depth – while my BA was in Art & Design History,  discussions surrounding fashion design were minimal. HOWEVER. This exhibition was so beautiful, so elegant and so well-structured that I need to give it a go. To my dearest fashion […]

Reviewing Australia’s ‘Worst Studio Potter’

thatisnocountry4oldmen (sailing2byzantium) by Glenn Barkley, 2022 [earthenware, slipcast, corks, gold lustre]   Sounds a bit harsh, don’t you think? That is exactly how the first headline describes Glenn Barkley when I googled his piece that had me in awe in the Cairns Art Gallery.   The article (https://cfileonline.org/glenn-barkley-worst-contemporary-ceramic-art-cfile/) – eesh, the link title is even […]

The Aboriginal Art Concept ‘Bush Medicine’ and Why I Love It

  Okay! I know it’s been a while and I know this is quite a random post, but when you see these artworks you’ll understand why I absolutely had to jump on and write here immediately.   Today I discovered an Aboriginal Artwork concept called ‘Bush Medicine’ in a beautiful little mountain village called Kuranda, […]

Conversations with Tamar Hemmes: Lucy McKenzie at Tate Liverpool

Quodlibet XLI, 2014 [oil paint on canvas]   I can’t believe I forgot to upload this one! This is my review of Tate Liverpool’s 2021 Lucy McKenzie Exhibition for Issue 118 of Bido Lito! I also had the fabulous opportunity to interview Tamar Hemmes, an Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, and get her thoughts on […]

Outdoor Liverpool Treasures: The Baltic Triangle

  It goes without saying that the marvellous city of Liverpool has an endless supply of museums and galleries for its locals and friendly tourists to satisfy their artistic appetites with. You have the Walker, the Open Eye, Tate Liverpool, the Lady Lever, the Maritime, Museum of Liverpool, etc etc etc. However… if our nationwide […]

Outdoor Liverpool Treasures: Central

  It goes without saying that the marvellous city of Liverpool has an endless supply of museums and galleries for its locals and friendly tourists to satisfy their artistic appetites with. You have the Walker, the Open Eye, Tate Liverpool, the Lady Lever, the Maritime, Museum of Liverpool, etc etc etc. However… if our nationwide […]

Outdoor Liverpool Treasures: The Waterfront

It goes without saying that the marvellous city of Liverpool has an endless supply of museums and galleries for its locals and friendly tourists to satisfy their artistic appetites with. You have the Walker, the Open Eye, Tate Liverpool, the Lady Lever, the Maritime, Museum of Liverpool, etc etc etc. However… if our nationwide lockdowns […]

My Favourite Masterpiece of All Time: My Bed by Tracey Emin

Hello my fellow art junkies! It really has been a hot minute since I have last written so I am sending my sincerest apologies. There are a variety of reasons why I have been slacking on this blog but I suppose the main reason is that because I am fairly new to all of this, […]