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Catch up on Jonathan W. Marshall's recent essay on artist Gregory Pryor:"Comparing Pryor’s canvases to the genre-definin...
30/05/2026

Catch up on Jonathan W. Marshall's recent essay on artist Gregory Pryor:

"Comparing Pryor’s canvases to the genre-defining work of Fred Williams, one is reminded that Williams was known to apply multiple layers, sometimes using a partially wiped away all-over ground, onto which a thicker impasto of “blotchy dabs” and vertically presented planes of color might be added.[3] These sometimes imparted to Williams’ depictions a curious glow; a sort of virtual heat haze that seemed to come from behind and through the paint."

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Image: Gregory Pryor, 'Midden Parasites,' 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

New review out now! Jonathan W. Marshall reflects on the work of Gregory Pryor:"Pryor’s work might therefore be seen to ...
22/05/2026

New review out now! Jonathan W. Marshall reflects on the work of Gregory Pryor:

"Pryor’s work might therefore be seen to mark out a private cosmology of surreal vitalistic associations, planting in his scenes significant objects and figures whose precise identity and function cannot be deciphered."

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Image: Gregory Pryor, The Pink Child, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Catch up on Marco Marcon's review of the Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention:"Large international exhibitions have t...
14/05/2026

Catch up on Marco Marcon's review of the Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention:

"Large international exhibitions have to contend with more than market pressure, government interference, and the fatuous rituals of the international art world. Perhaps the most important curatorial challenge for any of these events is managing the relationship between the local and the global."

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Image: Installation view of Seung-taek Lee's Earth Play (1989), as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.

New review out now! Marco Marcon examines the Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention:"Curators and artistic directors f...
09/05/2026

New review out now! Marco Marcon examines the Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention:

"Curators and artistic directors frequently fall victim to a harmful form of presentism. This tendency is partly due to their lingering attachment to the modernist belief in the importance of the “now.”"

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Image: Detail view of Ahmet Öğüt’s Pleasure Places of All Kinds, Zurich (2017), as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum.

Catch up on Sam Beard and Francis Russell's review of Gemma Weston's exhibition, 'WITNESSING,' held at .g.s:"[...] one m...
29/04/2026

Catch up on Sam Beard and Francis Russell's review of Gemma Weston's exhibition, 'WITNESSING,' held at .g.s:

"[...] one must wonder what kind of effect this constant stream of brutality produces: perhaps a kind of alternative Ludovico Technique that, rather than inducing nausea in response to violent acts, results in a nullification, or a callous ennui, as a means of enduring such content."

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Image: Gemma Weston, WITNESSING, at _____g.s. Photography by Wayne Lim

New review out now! Sam Beard and Francis Russell consider Gemma Weston's exhibition, 'WITNESSING,' held at _____g.s:"Fa...
24/04/2026

New review out now! Sam Beard and Francis Russell consider Gemma Weston's exhibition, 'WITNESSING,' held at _____g.s:

"Faced with a digital media ecosystem in which everything can and will be subsumed and circulated as content, the withdrawal of art’s potential—to be formally or conceptually novel—within the shelter of disappointment has a certain logic and pathos."

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Image: Gemma Weston, WITNESSING, at _____g.s. Photography by Wayne Lim

Out now! Guan Kan Journal editors William Bromage and Felicity Ostergaard speak with curator Jonathan Nichols and artist...
21/04/2026

Out now! Guan Kan Journal editors William Bromage and Felicity Ostergaard speak with curator Jonathan Nichols and artists Un Cheng, Chris Huen Sin-Kan, Noor Mahnun, and Jon Chan about their recent exhibition Painting Itself / 绘画本身 at PICA.

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Image: Un Cheng, NO BARGAIN $10!, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong.

Catch up on William Bromage and Felicity Ostergaard's interview with curator Jonathan Nichols and artists Un Cheng, Chr...
21/04/2026

Catch up on William Bromage and Felicity Ostergaard's interview with curator Jonathan Nichols and artists Un Cheng, Chris Huen Sin-Kan, Noor Mahnun, and Jon Chan about the recent exhibition Painting Itself / 绘画本身 at :

"Jonathan Nichols: [...] the logic I've used to bring these artists together is a kind of studio logic that many painters use. In a way, I think it's a game of reflection and seeing the work like themselves."

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Image: Tang Dixin, 'Human mountain,' 2016-2018. © Tang Dixin, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts

Session #10: The Whitney Biennial Reader! For the next virtual reading group, we will be discussing three reviews of th...
14/04/2026

Session #10: The Whitney Biennial Reader! For the next virtual reading group, we will be discussing three reviews of the 2026 Whitney Biennial by Sean Tatol (TMAR), Hilton Als (New Yorker), Jenny Wu (Art Review).

When: Tuesday 26 May, 6pm AWST (8pm AEST).
Free and all welcome. Sign-up via link in bio.

Catch up on Paul Sutherland’s review of ‘Redaction Toolkit’ by Jacob Canet-Gibson, Stirling Kain, Harrison Waed See, and...
11/04/2026

Catch up on Paul Sutherland’s review of ‘Redaction Toolkit’ by Jacob Canet-Gibson, Stirling Kain, Harrison Waed See, and Jordee Stewart, at Light Works:

“It has an exhibitionist element: this is data, it’s what you’re not supposed to see, this is the ugliness beneath the façade, and now it’s exposed, you can take a look!”

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Image credit: Installation documentation of ‘Redaction Toolkit’ at Light Works. Photography by Jacob Canet-Gibson.

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