It is holiday season, so we have been working the free activities across Melbourne’s galleries. We were mightily disappointed by ACCA’s summer Menagerie exhibition. Even the kids seemed turned off by the messy and random curation and the afterthought of a table with plastic toys in the foyer was insulting. The activity trail was totally […]
December 19, 2014
I was fortunate to visit Suomenlinna Island, the Unesco Heritage listed island in Helsinki harbour where HIAP have their international artist studios. Whilst in Helsinki I had a meeting with Australia Council resident artist, Katie Goodwin who has been documenting her stay on the island and in the polar winter of northern Finland on her […]
December 18, 2014
A winter visit to Helsinki was rich with encounters; some familiar, some new. Whilst Kiasma, one of my favourite contemporary art museums, was closed for renovations, I did manage to see the very interesting exhibition at the Kunsthall, Taidehalli- The Last Artists- http://taidehalli.fi/en. I had a meeting with the Director of Kiasma, who expressed a […]
January 22, 2015
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