July 27, 2020
July 4, 2020
It is not often that I come across a film, complex and uncomfortable in so many ways. A film I replay in my mind and rarer still a film that makes me want to know more about it, embark on research, write about it, surprised by the twists and turns my mind took as I ret...
June 29, 2020
Angela Shanahan's, "Bonfire of humanities, will burn our education system to ash", is interesting article appearing in the Weekend Australian on 27 June 2020, and re-posted on social media by Shane Stone, a former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and former pre...
June 4, 2020
Art Monthly Australasia, Issue 324 Winter 2020 pp. 52-53
Arresting the touristic gaze: Therese Ritchie and the art of representation in a transient place Koulla Roussos, Darwin Recently I wandered through Therese Ritchie’s ‘Burning hearts’ exhibition at the Museum and A...
April 29, 2020
As we confront the impact and scope of COVID-19, arguably an event of immense socio-economic implications, this print by Franck Gohier(b.France 1968) a leading Darwin contemporary artist, master-printer and provocateur, represents the role artists play in presenting an...
April 18, 2020
In 1973, when I was 5 years old, my parents decided to leave Darwin and resettle with five children back to their island home. This move was to have profound and lasting impact on my development, as I was old enough then to be marked by experiences which have buried de...
December 26, 2019
It’s been a month now since my father passed away. Since 26/11/19 I have had daily multiple instances akin to out of body experiences as I go about my daily tasks with the realization that a person whose constant presence in my life amounting to over 50 years no longer...
October 29, 2019
On the 23 October 1919, just over 100 years ago, “The Plague of Florence”(Die Pest in Florenz) directed by Otto Rippert was released. It premiered at Berlin’s Marmorhaus cinema. The screen play was written by Fritz Lang and was based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “T...
October 7, 2019
What is it to look, to see, to discern an image that is as dark as a moonless night?
I came across a work on the weekend when without any pre-planning or preconceived idea, I wandered into a renovated Victorian terrace house on Lennox Street in Richmond, following a fel...
September 13, 2019
The first thing one notices about Liss Fenwick’s Grim Purpose, is the imposing size of the photographic prints. From a distance the aerial maps pinned to the wall convey the enormity of the Northern Territory’s large and diverse terrain. However, as one moves closer, w...