Stephen Haley: The Future Photos
Science Fiction, from H.G. Wells’ Time Machine to William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy, is awash with technologies gone awry, usually with startling and dystopian results….
The Year of The Plague
It is, admittedly, highly unusual for one magazine/journal to feature another. However in the case of the latest issue of A+a an exception must…
Ron Francis – Metaphorically Speaking
Surrealism per se in Australia has seemed out of favour for decades. That’s not to say it hasn’t continued a strange, almost underground, presence…
Rus Kitchin: Harbinger of Hallucination
Rus Kitchin is a cartographer of chaos, a librarian of lunacy, a harbinger of hallucination a translator of turmoil and a linguist of labyrinths….
As Long as the Night is Dark: Hysteria and Apocalypse
It was indeed a dark night, an all encompassing, velvety, stygian blackness that captured the Melbourne Gothic in its latest, potent iteration. When Wagga…
Growing Up: Ronnie van Hout’s Tumultuous Year
There can be little doubt that it is a momentous year for Ronnie van Hout. He is currently showing at Station Gallery in Melbourne,…
Heidi Yardley’s Cadavre Exquis
“… the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.” – Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror, 1869
An Unsettling but Beautiful Zeitgeist
Since opening its new space in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb Windsor, MARS Gallery has been gradually honing a distinct aesthetic that has allowed a number…
