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A landmark visual arts publication dedicated to First Nations and global Indigenous visual art, craft and design.
🌀 read Volume Two online now

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🔗 Portals, Spirals and Stars: Site Resonance and Time 🌀
Contributed to @blue.artjournal to bring together three @friends.with.computers works (@jordan_east @pat.younis) : Under Waters @pica_perth, kajoo yannaga @nowornever.melb @melbfilmfest @acmionline + Being Mushroom @brandxinc

Blue Art Journal Volume Two:
we move through time / time moves through us

Edited by Noongar women Timmah Ball @electric_zines and Zali Morgan @zalimorgan Volume Two of Blue Art Journal focuses on the theme of time, with contributions from 14 of so-called Australia’s most exciting writers, artists, curators and cultural producers.

Contributors shared both intimate and fierce reflections on how First Peoples artists and cultural workers move through time and manipulate it: how it is an inheritance we bring into everything that we do.

cover artist James Tylor (Kaurna) @jamesptylor

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“When you go outside at night, crane your neck towards the sky. What do you see?

Our river of jewelled constellations ŋari and in their place, a black sky. But look again. Blackness is turning blue, seeping into yellow as our eyes skim the horizon. It appears as a nothingness, but is a signal of interference and erasure.”
excerpt from Georgia Hayward’s essay ŊARI / GAMBIRA, for the second edition of Blue Art Journal.

‘The Darkness’ is a collaborative research project by Gamilaraay astrophysicist, Peter Swanton, Iranian multidisciplinary artist Prita Tina Yeganeh and Mardigan and Anglo-Celtic artist, Georgia Hayward. The project seeks to explore the impacts of light-polluted skies—disrupting ecosystems, circadian rhythms and our relationship to darkness.

READ the essay via in our BIO

‘The Darkness’ is commissioned by ANAT and Lake Macquarie City Council for the Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima and will be exhibited from Friday 25 September – Sunday 29 November 2026.

Blue Art Journal creates space for First Nations writers, artists and critics to lead, critique, challenge, experiment and to tell stories on their own terms.

Image: Barnaby Norris, ‘Emu in the Sky’, 2006, photograph.

@blue.artjournal @goodtimes__studio @susie.nina @hayleymillarbaker @georgiamokak @georgia_hayward_ @pritatinayeganeh @lakemacarts #PeterSwanton #TheDarkness #MAPmima #LakeMacquarie #DarkSkies #LightPollution #ArtistResidency #collaboration #ArtScienceTechnology #CreativeResearch #EnvironmentalArt #ANAT #SidingSpringObservatory @creative.australia @createsa_

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I have a new essay available to read as part of the launch of Volume 2 of @blue.artjournal 🌀

‘Time Shallows’ shares some of my musings on the deep rationality of Noongar Time in comparison to the shallow anxiety of Settler Time.

The issue has been guest edited by Zali Morgan and Timmah Ball, and I’m in great company with fellow contributors including Nathan Sentance, Amanda Bell, Mykaela Saunders and Jazz Money.

Thanks for having me Blue Art Journal! You can read the whole issue online, the link is in my bio 🩵

#deeptime #Indigenoustime #settlercolonialisim

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CONVERSATIONS

Hear from artists on juggling multiple roles, collectors on how they buy art, designers on what makes collectible design works so desirable and more, all taking place within the bubble 🫧 at Melbourne Art Fair.

The Melbourne Art Fair CONVERSATIONS program is curated by MAF and presented in partnership with The Guardian @guardianaustralia

This year, @neilhughkenna of NHO @nho_________ also curates a design-centred program of talks.

Plan your weekend and discover the full program at the link in bio 🔗
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A platform for critical discourse and the sharing of ideas, CONVERSATIONS, brings together cultural communities and thinkers from across the creative spectrum. The aim: to address the future of art and its relationship to interdisciplinary practices and the contemporary world through a series of talks and panels featuring artists, gallerists, curators, collectors, architects, critics, scholars and cultural luminaries.

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PANEL | Silence is Violence: Blue Art Journal and the Rise of the Critical Blak Voice

@blue.artjournal, launching during the week of the Fair, is a new art journal dedicated to critical writing on local and global First Peoples’ art. It is reshaping the future of arts writing in Australia and across the Great Ocean region. As so-called Australia’s only publication dedicated to critical and experimental writing on local and global Indigenous art, the journal fills an urgent gap in the cultural landscape—one that has limited how Indigenous art is understood, valued and historicised.

Join Hayley Millar Baker @hayleymillarbaker, Gunditjmara and Djabwurrung artist and Chair of Blue Art Journal; Susie Anderson @susie.nina, Wergaia and Wemba Wemba poet, writer and editor and Managing Editor of Blue Art Journal; and Georgia Mokak @georgiamokak, Djugun arts professional and board member of Blue Art Journal, as they discuss the journal’s importance and their hopes for the future of Indigenous arts writing.

📆 Friday 20 February
⏰ 5:30PM
📍 The Bubble 🫧 at Melbourne Art Fair

Discover the full program at the link in bio 🔗

Melbourne Art Fair, 19 - 22 Feb at the @mcec

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Thanks 2024- I couldn’t have stuffed anything more into your guts even if I tried 💖🎆🖤

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so as a lot of you might know, in the middle of 2023 i moved from sydney to london to pursue my master’s. i completed my course this september and suddenly realised i had never felt so lost - in my head, i would graduate with so much insight and enlightenment and wisdom with a fantastic job lined up and know exactly what i wanted in life, but my reality was far from that.

now i’m back home for six weeks, and i’ve spent the past month catching up with family, friends and old colleagues, and i think i’m beginning to find my purpose again. anyways, i’ve been reflecting on what a valuable year this has been, and trying to measure value in a way that is less tangible and more personal, because i have learnt and grown a lot, and the fact that my development has looked different to my peers does not discount it as stagnance.

anyways, in this spirit i am aiming to share more of my achievements and things that excite me and make me happy - here’s my 2024 highlight reel :)

( jan ) visited @fundacao_serralves with family
( feb ) began my london art journey with an internship with @bosse_and_baum opening @luke_p_burton ‘s show
( mar ) saw @sothebys pre- modern and contemporary sale
( apr ) returned to sydney for @biennalesydney and saw @lawrencelek’s amazing work !!
( may ) worked on #eileenagar and @emma_witter_ ‘s show at @bosse_and_baum which was my heart and soul for weeks
( jun ) went to hong kong and researched @k11musea in situ for my master’s dissertation on quasi-public spaces’ impact on the democratisation of art
( jul ) saw @anthonymccallstudio at @tate
( aug ) finished my masters dissertation!!!
( sep ) went to @labiennale and felt an incredible art world urge for tangible change
( oct ) had the honour of covering @friezeofficial for @artmonthly and also started a job at dream gallery @victoriamirogallery
( nov ) saw @bettycfan perform her sculpture at @goldsmithsconfuciusinstitute
( dec ) back in sydney, saw @cao_fei ‘s inaugural australian solo at @artgalleryofnsw with a curatorial tour by superstar @caoyin9129

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The Art Monthly Summer Issue is out now, featuring a cover story about the work of Mia Boe, a Butchulla and Burmese artist who uses speculative fiction to reflect on colonial violence in Australia’s past and present—and to imagine how First Nations peoples and perspectives might shape brighter times to come. ⁠
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The issue is loosely themed around painting and also includes an essay by Isabella Trimboli about feminist painters, Jenny Watson, Julie Rrap and Maria Kozic. ⁠
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Copies are available now via the link in our bio. ⁠
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@artmonthly #ArtMonthly @mia.khin.boe #MiaBoe @julierrap #JulieRrap @postconceptualpainter #JennyWatson @akajustmerry @isabella.trimboli

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Thrilled and proud that my monograph + exhibition publication ‘The Ascended’ won Best University Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand’s Art Writing and Publishing Awards this week.

We worked SO hard on this publication. Gracious and joyful thanks to the GUAM team, dear Angela Goddard for the foreword, Brian Fuata for the rousing and loving incantation, Lana Lopesi for the inimitable words of now and the future, Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Raqs Media Collective for bringing meaningful intersectional perspective, designer Michael Phillips, and of course, advocate and fortifying editor and curator Naomi Evans. Thank you also to my family and friends who have perpetually offered their stories, bodies, vulnerability, thoughts and time in the development of my arts practice and for this book. Copy editor Evie Franzidis.

#Repost @artmonthly with @use.repost
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The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand has announced the winners of its annual Art Writing and Publishing Awards. This year’s winners are:

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The Summer issue of @artmonthly is out now!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this issue, which features:
- @akajustmerry on @mia.khin.boe and Indigenous speculative fiction
- @isabella.trimboli on the work of Jenny Watson, Maria Kozic and Julie Rrap
- Stephen Gilchrist on Queenie McKenzie and Australia’s history wars
- @_emma_beer_ remembering Richard Larter
- @oscarcapezio reflecting on the state of painting in Australia today
- @laralilychapman reporting on ocean-themed exhibitions at university art museums
- @jo3eyb introducing rising stars from Aotearoa New Zealand
- @sophiahalloway__’s review of @wecallthisatree at @portraitau
- @_declanfry on @rekorennie and Aboriginal sovereignty
- @callum_mcgrath’s review of James Barth at the @instituteofmodernart

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, @artmonthly

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hi world i wrote about this recent international interest in first nations australian art & how @dlancontemporary and @sullivanstrumpf at @friezeofficial this year really set the tone for what’s to come. i’m super excited about where this market is going and beyond honoured to map out a little bit of it. thank you so much for your thoughts @dlandavidson @ursulasullivan and thank you to @artmonthly and @oliver.giles for this incredible opportunity ! 🌟

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