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Getting a lift
The Downtown gallery at Deakin University’s city campus has closed, a disappointing development in the local art scene.
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On a figurative journey
There is an otherworldliness attempting to break through Gary Willis’s paintings on show at Library at the Dock.
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Evocative of a gaslight style
There are some very moving moments in the first exhibition of photographs at Magnet Gallery as we come back from the summer break.
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Lockdown nostalgia for studio time
Two artists used the lockdown to protect what is important to them, and that is time in the studio.
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A pop novel with a big heart
There’s a passage in When Jokers Were Kings just near the end where the voices of the two main characters lock in a “lyrical embrace” singing an Elvis Presley tribute song.
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Emmett and Cindy return
In June 2020, Docklands News published a positive review of Katherine Firkin’s debut crime novel Sticks and Stones.
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Parody of rich Asians a local hit
You can say a lot more in fiction than you can in other genres and novelist Kevin Kwan is free and easy about lampooning rich Asians and their pretensions.
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Evocative of a gaslight style
On a figurative journey
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