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…
