September 4, 2019
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 is a fascinating scene- the c13th hero, Siegfried slaying the dragon. The dragon puppet was operated by 17 people! Note the nostrils...
June 25, 2019
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 make the effort to find out more about her and her practice when I came across her work “Hit Me on the Street” in an earlier group sho...
June 2, 2019
Travis Vella’s “To those that were missing” (2018) is a medium size oil on board, a representational work, depicting four female figures in the format of a family snapshot. Three of these figures are older women clad in vintage clothing, sensible collared dresses, one...
May 16, 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 influence shaping our perceptions and narratives about place.
There is a thirst for visual representation from artists that habituate...
April 8, 2019
Last year I moved to Melbourne to pursue academic studies in art curatorship, to finish a Masters at the University of Melbourne, something I started in 2010.
Last year, while attending Uni a day per week, most of my time was taken up by the work of finding my rhythm i...
March 1, 2019
20 years ago on 1/3/1999 saw the start of the Federal Court sittings in Darwin of the Cubillo&Gunner v The Commonwealth case, a test case litigation which I had the privilege to coordinate.
I worked along side some remarkable individuals including Jack Rush QC, Mark Dr...
February 24, 2019
It was a Sunday afternoon, I was lying on my couch, reading random extracts on line from the digitised diary of GW Goyder, the Surveyor General who was sent to the Northern Territory in 1869 to complete a land survey and select a location for what has become the city o...
October 8, 2018
Talitha Kennedy formed her distinctive style in Darwin. She cuts and she moulds and she stitches and she shapes into black leather the surreal dystopian forms found in Darwin’s surrounding mangrove root system.
In between she doodles ink drawings, her pen the sonar dial...
September 28, 2018
In conjunction with the Curator’s statement, here are 22 aphorisms, which in turn have been printed and appear alongside the printed video stills in Unicorn Lane and innour limited edition free catalogue.
APHORISMS
I present to you my thoughts that were collected duri...
September 25, 2018
THE CONTIGUITY OF TOTALISATION
The Contiguity of Totalisation premiered in Ballarat on 22 September 2018 at 8:30pm at St Andrews Kirk as part of a three part installation project across three venues produced by Koulla Roussos, Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen. I...
