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Koulla Roussos
Aug 28, 20209 min read
Political art from the periphery in the time of the great pandemic, 28/8/2020
This essay accompanied the exhibition Fire & Brimstone:Chips Mackinolty, Therese Ritchie and Todd Williams & Djon Mundine, at Cross Art...
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by Koulla Roussos
Jul 27, 20205 min read
Therese Ritchie, "If she were as priceless as a Warhol, you'd save her" limited 99 edi
© Therese Ritchie, "If she were as priceless as a work of art, you'd save her", 2020. Knine Productions proudly presents the second in...
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Jul 4, 20205 min read
The Lighthouse, dir. R. Eggers (2019)
It is not often that I come across a film, complex and uncomfortable in so many ways. A film I replay in my mind and rarer still a film...
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by Koulla Roussos
Jun 29, 20205 min read
Humanities
Angela Shanahan's, "Bonfire of humanities, will burn our education system to ash", is interesting article appearing in the Weekend...
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Jun 4, 20203 min read
Exhibition review: ‘Burning hearts’, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
Art Monthly Australasia, Issue 324 Winter 2020 pp. 52-53 Arresting the touristic gaze: Therese Ritchie and the art of representation in a...
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by Koulla Roussos
Apr 29, 20204 min read
Franck Gohier, "Don't Cough Comrades" 2020 screen print, edition 99
As we confront the impact and scope of COVID-19, arguably an event of immense socio-economic implications, this print by Franck...
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by Koulla Roussos
Apr 18, 20207 min read
Easter Saturday, 1974
In 1973, when I was 5 years old, my parents decided to leave Darwin and resettle with five children back to their island home. This move...
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by Koulla Roussos
Dec 26, 20195 min read
On my father’s doubts about art
It’s been a month now since my father passed away. Since 26/11/19 I have had daily multiple instances akin to out of body experiences as...
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Review by Koulla Roussos
Oct 29, 20194 min read
The Plague of Florence
On the 23 October 1919, just over 100 years ago, “The Plague of Florence”(Die Pest in Florenz) directed by Otto Rippert was released. It...
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Review by Koulla Roussos
Oct 7, 20195 min read
Shit that I Like
What is it to look, to see, to discern an image that is as dark as a moonless night? I came across a work on the weekend when without any...
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Review by Koulla Roussos
Sep 13, 20194 min read
Liss Fenwick, Grim Purpose, DVA 30/8/19-13/9/19
The first thing one notices about Liss Fenwick’s Grim Purpose, is the imposing size of the photographic prints. From a distance the...
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Koulla Roussos
Sep 4, 20193 min read
Dragon slayer
Last night in the early hours, after I got home from the airport, I started to watch Part 1 of Fritz Lang’s 1924 “Die Nibelungen" . Here...
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Jun 25, 20196 min read
Eileen Song, Cliffside, on violence as a work of art
I met Eileen Song a few weeks ago at the Roma Bar to chat about her exhibition “Cliffside” showing at Darwin Visual Arts. I wanted to...
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Koulla Roussos
Jun 2, 20194 min read
Painting ghosts-fleeting thoughts on an art work one year on
Travis Vella’s “To those that were missing” (2018) is a medium size oil on board, a representational work, depicting four female...
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Koulla Roussos
May 16, 20193 min read
Rob Brown, The Plum Spanky, a solo exhibition of new works, Mayfair Gallery, 10 May 2019
Darwin has a strong cultural heartbeat. Its beginnings can be traced to creatives who have come and gone and to many who remain, their...
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Koulla Roussos
Apr 8, 20191 min read
A room with a view
Last year I moved to Melbourne to pursue academic studies in art curatorship, to finish a Masters at the University of Melbourne,...
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Koulla Roussos
Mar 1, 20191 min read
Cubillo & Gunner v The Commonwealth
20 years ago on 1/3/1999 saw the start of the Federal Court sittings in Darwin of the Cubillo&Gunner v The Commonwealth case, a test case...
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Koulla Roussos
Feb 24, 201910 min read
An afternoon walk, Feb 2019
It was a Sunday afternoon, I was lying on my couch, reading random extracts on line from the digitised diary of GW Goyder, the Surveyor...
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Koulla Roussos
Oct 8, 20181 min read
Exhibition review: Talitha Kennedy, Palpable Voids, Mars Gallery 27 Septemb
Talitha Kennedy formed her distinctive style in Darwin. She cuts and she moulds and she stitches and she shapes into black leather the...
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Koulla Roussos
Sep 28, 20183 min read
22 contiguous aphorisms
In conjunction with the Curator’s statement, here are 22 aphorisms, which in turn have been printed and appear alongside the printed...
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