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COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY and a LEAP OF FAITH

Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust and mutual understanding. Committees, musicians and any manner of team and familial groups all manage it more or less successfully. For artists though it is a very different matter. Artists traditionally work alone. When...

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Exhibition of paintings in Adelaide

Exhibition of paintings in Adelaide

Image and text can illustrate each other or simply coexist in the same space. In film making, as in life, we accept the juxtaposition. Both image and text can be read as narrative but meaning may evade the audience. A painted surface and a single frame of film suggest...

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ON GENDER, COLOUR AND LEFTHANDEDNESS

This affirmation, or conversely, this idea of rejection permeates the art landscape. There are winners and losers, by far the greater majority destined to be life-long losers by this measure. A level playing field? Some would suggest not.

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THE SELF-CENTERED, THE COLLECTIVE AND THE ATEMPORAL

While the cult of the heroic individual artist will seemingly continue forever, collaboration around shared philosophies, shared knowledge and that a work of art is not necessarily anchored to a specific individual, time or place may well be the most effective response to the time in which we find ourselves – past, present and future as one.

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FEARLESSNESS, ABUSE AND THE CRITICAL FACULTY

Fearlessness is all well and good but when the criteria for critical appraisal are based not on objectivity, profound knowledge, understanding and an ability to express all of that in terms that elucidate and not obfuscate, what you are left with is simply opinion.

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