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Dispatch Review
Candid art criticism
Dispatch Review
respectfully acknowledges the Whadjuk people as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands upon which we live, work and enjoy. We pay deep respect to Elders past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
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Reviews:
AGWA x PrideFEST
by Felicity Bean.
Tim Meakins, Body Mould
by Sam Beard.
Nick FitzPatrick, Hero Image
by Francis Russell.
Jacob Kotzee, Arrangements
by Dan Glover.
Hollow Icons: Desmond Mah at Mossenson
by Darren Jorgensen.
Pilgrimage
: An interview with Vedika Rampal.
The UnAustralian: Doubling Double Nation
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An interview with Rex Butler.
Negative Criticism: A Year of Dispatch Review
by Tara Heffernan.
Custodians as Reverse Monument
by Darren Jorgensen.
End of History – LWAG
by Francis Russell.
Hatched Dispatched 2024
by Dan Glover, Jess van Heerden, Nalinie See & Sam Beard.
David Bromfield: A critic at large
and
‘Where did the artists go?’
Me, Also Me
by Sam Beard.
Paper Trails Between Lion and Swan
by Sam Beard.
Ceramically Speaking
by Ben Yaxley.
The Strelley Mob
by Sam Harper.
Rone: The Mighty Success
by Leslie Thompson.
Paper Trails: An interview with Yeo Chee Kiong
by Sam Beard.
Power 100
by Dispatch Review.
Foresight & Fiction
by Ben Yaxley.
Twin Peaks Was 30
by Matthew Taggart.
Breaking News: It’s Rone!
by Sam Beard.
Look, looking at Anna Park
by Amelia Birch.
The Fan
by Francis Russell.
Follower, Leader
by Maraya Takoniatis.
Wanneroo Warholamania
by Sam Beard.
Death Metal Summer
by Sam Beard.
Players, Places: Reprised, Renewed, Reviewed
by Aimee Dodds.
Scholtz: Two Worlds Apart
by Corderoy, Fisher, Flaherty, Wilson, Fletcher, Jorgensen, & Glover.
Partial Sightings
by Sam Beard.
True! Crime.
by Aimee Dodds.
The Human Condition
by Rex Butler.
Light Event
by Sam Beard.
Rejoinder: Archival / Activism
by Max Vickery.
Access and Denial in The Purple Shall Govern
by Jess van Heerden.
4Spells
by Sam Beard.
Abstract art, DMT capitalism and the ugliness of David Attwood’s paintings
by Darren Jorgensen.
Unearthing new epistemologies of extraction
by Samuel Beilby.
Seek Wisdom
by Max Vickery.
Something for Everyone
by Sam Beard.
Violent Sludge
by Aimee Dodds.
State of Abstraction
by Francis Russell.
Double Histories: Special Issue
, with texts by Ian McLean, Terry Smith, and Darren Jorgensen & Sam Beard.
Six Missing Shows
by Sam Beard.
What We Memorialise
by Max Vickery.
At the End of the Land
by Amelia Birch.
The beautiful is useful
by Sam Beard.
ām / ammā / mā maram
by Zali Morgan.
Making Ground, Breaking Ground
by Maraya Takoniatis.
Art as Asset
by Sam Beard.
Cactus Malpractice
by Aimee Dodds.
Sweet sweet pea by Sam Beard.
COBRA by Francis Russell.
PICA Barn
by Sam Beard
.
Gallery Hotel Metro
by Aimee Dodds.
A Stroll Through the Sacred, Profane, and Bizarre
by Samuel Beilby.
Filling in the Gaps at Spacingout
by Maraya Takoniatis.
Disneyland Cosmoplitanism
by Sam Beard.
Discovering Revenue
by Anonymous.
Uncomfortable Borrowing
by Jess van Heerden.
It’s Not That Strange
by Stirling Kain.
Hatched Dispatched 2023
by Sam Beard & Aimee Dodds.
Fuck the Class System
by Jess van Heerden, Jacinta Posik, Darren Jorgensen, et al.
Wild About Nothing
by Sam Beard.
Paranoiac, Peripatetic: Pet Projects
by Aimee Dodds.
An Odd Moment for Women’s Art
by Maraya Takoniatis.
Transmutations
by Sam Beard.
The Post-Vandal
by Sam Beard.
Art Thugs and Humbugs
by Max Vickery.
Disneyland, Paris, Ardross and the artworld
by Darren Jorgensen.
Bizarrely, A Biennale
by Aimee Dodds.
Venus in Tullamarine
by Sam Beard.
Weird Rituals
by Sam Beard.
Random Cube
by Francis Russell.
Yeah, Nah, Rockpool
by Aimee Dodds.
Towards a Blind Horizon
by Kieron Broadhurst.
Being Realistic
by Sam Beard.
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Events:
The Modern and the Contemporary: A conversation with Rex Butler, Tara Heffernan, Darren Jorgensen and Peter Beilharz
Saturday, 7 September, 2024, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm AWST
The Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Dispatch Review: Artist Talk at the City of Belmont
Thursday, 18 January, 2024,
5:30pm – 6:30pm AWST
Ruth Faulkner Library, Events Room, 213 Wright Street Cloverdale, WA 6105.
Memo Magazine Launch and Panel Discussion
Saturday, 2 December, 2023, 4pm – 5pm AWST
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Cultural Precinct.
Artist as Prophet: Intersections of Art and Ritual
with Robert Buratti
Friday, 27 October, 2023,
12pm – 12:30pm AWST
Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre, School of Design, UWA.
Dispatch Review Launch Party
Saturday, 7 October, 2023,
7pm – 10:00pm AWST
Light Works, 112 Murray St, Perth WA 6000.
Doubled Histories: The Futures of Australian Art
with Ian McLean, Terry Smith, Jessyca Hutchens and Darren Jorgensen
Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
6pm – 7:30pm AWST
State Library of Western Australia, Great Southern Room, Level 4 25 Francis Street Perth, WA 6000
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