Edward Colless

Based in: Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

Edward Colless is a Senior Lecturer of Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Aside from education, he has in the past also worked in theatre, film, broadcasting and architecture, been a curator, occasionally worked as a travel writer, and dabbled in fiction—but mainly he writes art criticism. In this field he has been an arts reviewer for The Age and The Australian, and associate editor and features writer for Art Collector. He is currently editor of the journal Art+Australia, with its associated publishing program.

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Artist Profile: Tim Silver

Blood sculptures that melt in the warm air on opening night, chewing gum soldiers that visitors tread across the gallery floor and jaffas that melt into hair gel are all exchanges of substances that are part of the process in Tim Silver’s artworks. To Edward Colless they form a poetic theme of sickening, contaminating love like the kiss of a vampire.
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VIDEO: Pull Focus with Lindy Lee

Watch Edward Colless in conversation with Lindy Lee about 'Open as the Sky'.
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In the Works: Art history 101

Visual arts 101: Lessons on influential works and their significance.
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In the works: Art History 101

Visual arts 101: lessons in influential artworks and their significance.
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In the works: Art History 101

Visual arts 101: lessons in influential artworks and their significance.
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Dale Frank

Dale Frank: A New Sorcery

Dale Frank’s work, he justifiably declared, is “out there, all on its own...majestic and strange”.
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Yvonne Audette: Oblique Angles

Yvonne Audette’s remarkable six-decade career is part of the history of abstraction in Australia. Recognition may have come slowly but was ultimately undeniable. There is an ever present power in her work, a power grounded in oblique hints at what lies beneath, gone beyond recall.
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