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Published outcomes - National Gallery of ...
Published outcomes - National Gallery of Australia: Digital Young Writers Mentorship
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Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
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Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, ...
ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, breathing artwork on Minjerribah
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Jo Higgins
Exhibition essay: Topographies of painting - ...
Exhibition essay: Topographies of painting - Gregory Hodge, Sullivan + Strumpf
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Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: Richard Bell at documenta fifteen
ABC Arts: Richard Bell at documenta fifteen

Published outcomes - National Gallery of Australia: Digital Young Writers Mentorship

I’m looking forward to sharing some reflections and learnings from this project in the coming months. But in the meantime - some publication highlights from the program’s mentees:

ASSEMBLY: An annotation

Hen Vaughan responds to the themes of translation and collectivity in Angelica Mesiti’s three-channel video installation, ASSEMBLY.

Is social media affecting how we engage with art?

Aisyah Aaqil Sumito interviews artist Dan Bourke about the impact of Web 2.0 on our cognitive reading of art, pointing to children learning in a new exhibition.

This interview was published by ArtsHub, the publishing partner of the Digital Young Writers Mentorship Program.

Contemporary Resonances of Art in the Age of AIDS

Aisyah Aaqil Sumito reflects on the contemporary resonances of the trailblazing 1994 exhibition, ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS.’

A Modern Approach to Exhibiting Costume

Michelle Guo explores the challenges that curators encounter when exhibiting costume, and the unique way that they have gone about acquiring Justene Williams’ costumes for ‘Victory Over the Sun’.

Kara Walker’s Monument

Jade Irvine reflects on African American artist Kara Walker’s use of scale - from intimate to monumental - and her consideration of the histories that are memorialised and those that remain obscured.

REVIEW: Deborah Prior - On The Third Day

Hen Vaughan review's Deborah Prior’s powerful new textile exhibition at JamFactory Seppeltsfield, On The Third Day, for the Digital Young Writers Mentorship Program’s publishing partner, ArtsHub.

REVIEW: HOME | LAND

Jade Irvine reviews the group exhibition, HOME | LAND, at Hobart’s Contemporary Art Tasmania for ArtsHub, the publishing partner of the Digital Young Writers Mentorship Program.

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ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA

QAGOMA’s latest Summer blockbuster exhibition, Air, opened last weekend. This beautiful, deeply nuanced exhibition, curated by Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, reflects on real-world issues, including climate change, colonisation and the pandemic.

You can read my article about it for ABC Arts here.

SELECTION OF EXHIBITION IMAGES:

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The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery: new youth engagement project - 'Things I Want To Say'

I’m really excited to be working alongside curator Rachel Arndt to help develop and deliver a pilot youth engagement project for The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery, in Toogoolawah, Queensland.

Over the next year I’ll be supporting Rachel and several artists to run workshops for local young people, inspired by the ideas and artists involved in the May 2023 exhibition, Things I Want to Say, curated by Rachel and Imogen Dixon-Smith.

'Things I want to say' will bring together six emerging artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society.

The first of these workshops was yesterday and we had such a fantastic group of local young people, who worked alongside artist Sid McMahon and myself to start teasing out some of these conversations and experiences for themselves.

I’m looking forward to everything that’s to come.

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I acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the unceded land on which I live and work and I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.