I have been super fortunate to be able to walk through life side by side with my mum. We are very different in some ways but also have many common interests. She has been an incredible supporter of my work and family, and helped me to create space to think, imagine and participate. A few weeks ago we visited the MOTHER show at NGV curated by Sophie Gerhard and Katharina Prugger. Stephie was most affected by Hayley Millar Baker’s video Entr’acte featuring the curator Clothilde Bullen. This work really resonated for her. I loved the interplay between historical and contemporary works and cultural perspectives, acknowledgment of archetypes but also lived experience into the narrative of being a mum.
@ngvmelbourne@sopgerhard@katprugger@hayleymillarbaker
Artist yet to be identified, Inuit, Canada
Camille Henrot
Louise Bourgeois
Hayley Millar Baker
It seemed like we had all the time in the world but now there are just two days left...if you haven’t already, come see Hany Armanious Stone Soup at Buxton Contemporary 11-5 this Friday or 11-5 this Saturday. Stone Soup is the largest exhibition of the artists work to date, but it’s much more than that: it’s a carefully considered and orchestrated sojourn through 15 years of making sculpture off and on the walls ! @buxton_contemporary
#StoneSoup #HanyArmanious #ContemporaryArt #SlowLooking
So pleased to share extracts from my recent review on #hanyarmanious @buxton_contemporary for @artlink_magazine
“Stone Soup” is on view until 11 April, 2026
For full review visit Artlink magazine .au/articles/6178/hany-armanious-stone-soup/
“Stone Soup is a powerful critique of institutional pedagogy, object ontology and the post-modern condition where representation and signs replace the real. Drawing us into oscillations between knowing and unknowing, artificial and natural, and the copy and the real, the exhibition evokes Baudrillard’s statement that perhaps ‘copies no longer refer to anything real behind them.’ In other words, the real is so far removed from the original that the copy’s only function is to refer to other signs.
While works in the exhibition deceptively allude to being crafted from different materials, textures and weight, they are made from pigmented polyurethane resin, occupying a collective space that is reflexive, coalesced and of likeness–becoming a system of sensory and perceptual diversions.” extract
@samantha_comte@charday68@laurencesillars.photography #hanyarmanious #objectontology #artcritic #contemporaryart
Image credits: Installation view of Hany Armanious: Stone Soup, Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne Courtesy the artist and Phillida Reid, London. Photography by Christian
BOOK LAUNCH
Lyndal Walker: Venus & Saturn
$80.00 inc. GST
Hardcover | 320 pages
Limited edition of 600
Join us for the launch of Venus & Saturn, a comprehensive survey of Lyndal Walker’s work from the past three decades. Her practice spans photography, installation and textiles, exploring themes of gender, desire, time and fashion while challenging fine art conventions and interrogating the nature of image and object.
The book includes texts by Diana d’Arenberg, Charlotte Day, Brian Clark, and a conversation between Fette Sans and Lyndal Walker.
Swipe to preview the foreword by Charlotte Day, who joins Lyndal Walker at the launch to discuss her practice and the collaborative process behind the book.
Lyndal Walker: Venus & Saturn
Book Launch and Conversation with Charlotte Day
Thursday 3 April 2025, 5:30pm–7:30pm
Buxton Contemporary
🔗 Order now via the link in our bio.
Follow @lyndalwalker@artinkaustralia and @buxton_contemporary for more information
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I do like a sheet of instructions…but more than that am so thrilled to welcome Chilean artist Paula de Solminihac back to Melbourne with her colleague Consuelo Pedraza. Their work is truly inspiring. Across coming days they are testing there Nube Lab pedagogies with us at Buxton Contemporary. You can book online for 20 or 21 March @buxton contemporary. ❤️
As part of Tony Clark Unsculpted at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne based choreographer Shelley Lasica will present a new performance with scenery, as part of her ongoing collaborative project with Clark, Represent. This coming Tuesday 12th November at 6pm, Buxton galleries open from 5pm. Free, no bookings required. hope you can join us ❤️ @shelleylasica@buxton_contemporary #tonyclark
What a privilege to be at the opening of the inaugural Timor-Lester Pavilion, Maria Madeira’s Kiss and Don’t Tell curated by natalieking_curator. Its not so often prime ministers engage directly with artists and their projects but how wonderful when this does happen. Very special to be present for Maria’s performance with the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. The installation itself is very beautiful, delicate, intimate and imbued with a lot of emotional energy. The back story Maria speaks of and sings to in her performance and accompanying video documentation is devastating and goes to the heart of women’s experience of war and occupation, as well as to the resilience and hope of Timorese women.
@mariamadeira.artist@anna_schhh
Archie Moore’s kith and kin is an incredible project and hard to find the words to convey its quiet intensity which unfolds as you move around it and realise its epic proportions from Archie back 65000 years.This celestial map of relations is accompanied by stacks of official reports with names redacted, reflecting on First Nations incarceration in Australia. Again, it’s the seeming simplicity of the presentation that is its power - you can’t help but think of all the reports that have been shelved, State institutions and bureaucratic processes that have failed, but most importantly the lives affected. Kith and kin is underpinned by extensive research, an installation that would have required real endurance and great thoughtfulness. Hats off to Archie and Ellie and Creative Australia team who have brought it into being. Definitely the highlight of Venice and a golden lion to boot!
@kithandkin _2024
@austatvenice
