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Exhibition Visits

Exhibition Visit : nightshifts 26 May until 29 October 2023 A contemplative new group exhibition that considers the importance of solitude through contemporary arts practice. Free, self-directed visits, supported with an online resource and extend the student...

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MeMO: Grant Stevens, ‘Fawn in the Forest’

MeMO: Grant Stevens, ‘Fawn in the Forest’

Reviewing Grant Stevens’ Fawn In The Forest Phillip Brophy writes: I’m writing this while Fawn In The Forest “plays” on my second screen. Or is it “happening”? Maybe it’s “running”. It just keeps going, as if its status as image is somehow in motion, fluid,...

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Art Guide: ‘This Brittle Light’

Art Guide: ‘This Brittle Light’

In a recent review of Buxton Contemporary's current exhibition This Brittle Light in Art Guide Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen writes: "I feel moved by What Goes Around, a video work by father and son Hossein and Nassiem Valamanesh, which animates a previously existing...

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Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram,  ‘A shining light’, Geelong Gallery, 2020 – 21 February 2021

Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram, ‘A shining light’, Geelong Gallery, 2020 – 21 February 2021

Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram are included in A shining light, an exhibition of new works acquired by Geelong Gallery over the past year. The exhibition takes its title from a 1986 song The shining path by British group Shriekback, and the song’s opening lines resonate in this uncertain times: ‘We had lived a blessed time but we knew nothing’.

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