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Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers (2021) film review
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film Parallel Mothers (Spanish: Madres Paralelas) is yet another testament to his complex storytelling. It...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Feb 2, 20223 min read


Seeking transcendence: ‘Out of the darkness’ at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Exhibition preview
This exhibition preview was published in Art Monthly Australasia magazine, Winter 2021 Issue 328 Pic: Katherine Rolfe, 2021 As I enter...
Koulla Roussos
Jun 4, 20214 min read


Ash Keating's Metaphorical Flames
This review was published on Art Monthly Australasia, on-line edition March 18, 2021 Ash Keating, China Town intervention 2. Pic: Koulla...
Koulla Roussos
Mar 17, 20214 min read


The Cave Podcast with Fotis Kapetopoulos
This is an article and podcast by Neos Kosmos and The Cave's presenter Fotis Kapetopulos published on 7 January 2021 Koulla Roussos from...
FOTIS KAPETOPOULOS WITH KOULLA ROUSSOS
Jan 6, 20214 min read


Political art from the periphery in the time of the great pandemic, 28/8/2020
This essay accompanied the exhibition Fire & Brimstone:Chips Mackinolty, Therese Ritchie and Todd Williams & Djon Mundine, at Cross Art...
Koulla Roussos
Aug 28, 20209 min read


Therese Ritchie, "If she were as priceless as a Warhol, you'd save her" limited 99 edi
© Therese Ritchie, "If she were as priceless as a work of art, you'd save her", 2020. Knine Productions proudly presents the second in...
by Koulla Roussos
Jul 27, 20205 min read


The Lighthouse, dir. R. Eggers (2019)
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...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Jul 4, 20205 min read


Humanities
Angela Shanahan's, "Bonfire of humanities, will burn our education system to ash", is interesting article appearing in the Weekend...
by Koulla Roussos
Jun 29, 20205 min read


Exhibition review: ‘Burning hearts’, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
Art Monthly Australasia, Issue 324 Winter 2020 pp. 52-53 Arresting the touristic gaze: Therese Ritchie and the art of representation in a...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Jun 4, 20203 min read


Franck Gohier, "Don't Cough Comrades" 2020 screen print, edition 99
As we confront the impact and scope of COVID-19, arguably an event of immense socio-economic implications, this print by Franck...
by Koulla Roussos
Apr 29, 20204 min read


Easter Saturday, 1974
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...
by Koulla Roussos
Apr 18, 20207 min read


On my father’s doubts about art
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...
by Koulla Roussos
Dec 26, 20195 min read


The Plague of Florence
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...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Oct 29, 20194 min read


Shit that I Like
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...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Oct 7, 20195 min read


Liss Fenwick, Grim Purpose, DVA 30/8/19-13/9/19
The first thing one notices about Liss Fenwick’s Grim Purpose, is the imposing size of the photographic prints. From a distance the...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Sep 13, 20194 min read


Dragon slayer
Last night in the early hours, after I got home from the airport, I started to watch Part 1 of Fritz Lang’s 1924 “Die Nibelungen" . Here...
Koulla Roussos
Sep 4, 20193 min read


Eileen Song, Cliffside, on violence as a work of art
I met Eileen Song a few weeks ago at the Roma Bar to chat about her exhibition “Cliffside” showing at Darwin Visual Arts. I wanted to...
Review by Koulla Roussos
Jun 25, 20196 min read


Painting ghosts-fleeting thoughts on an art work one year on
Travis Vella’s “To those that were missing” (2018) is a medium size oil on board, a representational work, depicting four female...
Koulla Roussos
Jun 2, 20194 min read


Rob Brown, The Plum Spanky, a solo exhibition of new works, Mayfair Gallery, 10 May 2019
Darwin has a strong cultural heartbeat. Its beginnings can be traced to creatives who have come and gone and to many who remain, their...
Koulla Roussos
May 16, 20193 min read


A room with a view
Last year I moved to Melbourne to pursue academic studies in art curatorship, to finish a Masters at the University of Melbourne,...
Koulla Roussos
Apr 8, 20191 min read
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