Looking at Matthew Saville’s photography is like watching a whole season of Skins in one sitting; both make you doubt the validity of your youth. ‘Where was my rock ‘n’ roll world tour?’ you may ask in vain; ‘How come I never got to dance onstage with The Flaming Lips?’, ‘What happened to my endless afternoons drinking longnecks with my shirt off?’
Saville portrays these young turbulent years as a time for forging identities, travelling restlessly and of course, obligatory partying. The youthful exuberance in his photography is tempered with poignancy – full of recognition that part of what makes our youthful years so invigorating (not to mention stunningly beautiful) is the fact that they inevitably end, so what matters is what you make of them. And if nothing else, This is The Wild stands as testament to somebody’s well spent youth.
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David-Ashley Kerr, ‘Rückenfigur’ ...Though still beautiful, Melburne-based artist David-Ashley Kerr’s photographs use the device to inquire “into the visualisation of place,...
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Felicity Boevink VisorsWith absolutely no ball-sports in mind, Brisbane milliner Felicity Boevink creates her visors in black, nude and a futurist holographic silver...
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Jeff Wall PhotographsCanadian photographer Jeff Wall is 67-years-old and as close as you’ll get to a rock star in his field.
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Annabel Dixon, ‘Return To Form’ ...Annabel Dixon has pulled a Michael Jordan circa 1995 and returned to play the solo exhibition game.
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Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet...One thing I love about Los Angeles is the sheer fruitcake-iness of the place. Religious cults, diet gurus, pet psychologists, auras and fads....
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Nathan Barnett, ‘An Excursion’ ...The garage-come-gallery known as the Museum of Natural Mystery is an apt setting for Barnett’s work: both are charismatic, mystical entities...