Michael Needham, Between the Object and the Shadow Daine Singer Gallery, August – September 2012 A sweet and beautiful sadness. The velvet cloak of memory and loss falling at the speed of life. A palpable gravitas, a force of weight in dense silence, tugging gently on my organs. These are the first contemplations of my … Continue reading
dark matter_dark energy, Michael Needham, Sally Blenheim, Adam John Cullen, Tristan Jalleh, Jacques Soddell, Nicholas Ives Stockroom Gallery, July 2012 the materiality of emptiness if i mention Einstein will you stop reading this? will it put you off? well, frankly, it’s too late for that because there he is, sitting fourth in line of the … Continue reading
Opposite the Bendigo Art Gallery, where lines of eager patrons wait to feast on the variety of mini-blockbuster textile based exhibitions that keep cropping up, the La Trobe Uni Visual Arts Centre has been pumping out regularly consistent contemporary art shows of some seriously killer quality. It seems that Melbourne’s famed art scene, like it’s … Continue reading
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