First published in VAULT magazine, July 2015 We live in a world that reserves a special affection for clear-cut borders and shiny surfaces but Clare Milledge is rekindling my suspicion that mess is the stuff of life. When the artist, whose process-based installations knit together everything from glass paintings, textiles and sculpture to costumes, video […]
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First published in Vault magazine, Issue #8 November 2014 Jelena Telecki knows that formative influences only reveal themselves in retrospect. When the Sydney-based artist was growing up in Communist-era Yugoslavia in the eighties, she couldn’t have predicted that Gustav, a Hungarian cartoon whose grey-clad protagonist skitters between optimism and fatalism, would become an unlikely mascot […]
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First published in Museum magazine September 2014 Pipilotti Rist is an advocate for the power of selective memory. When I ask the Swiss-born artist, who creates hallucinatory wonderlands that leave a permanent mark on your consciousness, about her failed projects she admits – fittingly, for a video art wunderkind – to simply editing them out. […]
Published in Scoop Homes & Art, Spring 2013 A culture that spend decades creatively shackled is experiencing a new revolution, with an enormous talent pool of Chinese artists finding purchase in the West. In China, contemporary art is the product of a collective moment rather than the talent of individual artists. The death of Mao […]
