Lee Grant is many things. Photographer, mother, businesswoman, philosopher, horticulturalist, Korean-Australian, anthropologist… Resoundingly, one of the words continuously used to describe Lee is honest. She will tell you what she thinks. Avoid eye contact and back away slowly if you aren’t up for the truth.
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Helen and Dennis Smith supply Monster kitchen and bar with free range eggs. Their chickens live on their property 33km north of Temora in the Riverina region of NSW, around 200km from Canberra. Their 3000 hens strut and peck their way around their large property of wild grasses and old gum trees in the shadow of a mountain ridge, under the protective supervision of two very inquisitive and energetic cattle dogs.
Read moreA documentation of socialist industrial products and workers, a young Ai Weiwei, Mark Manders’ process, and nomadic symbols.
‘Doppelte Okonomien’ (Double Bound Economies) archived commercial photographer Reinhard Mende, who was based in the East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s. Mende photographed the Leipzig Trade Fair and the showcase of socialist industrial products for visitors from Western countries. The book’s title refers to the doubling of capitalist and socialist economies, suggesting how we may come to approach this unique body of work today. Despite being commissioned to shoot the products, people, especially workers are strongly featured throughout.
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A young Ai Weiwei’s life and practice in New York throughout the 80s and early 90s. In the decade he lived there, Ai took over 10,000 black and white photographs, which had been left untouched until he selected 277 of them to be showed in 2010. These photographs now populate ‘Ai Weiwei: New York 1983-1993’, and capture some of city’s key social and cultural upheavals and moments such as the Tompkins Square riots.
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An extensive volume of monochrome documentation photographs published to coincide with celebrated Dutch artist Mark Manders’ exhibition at Collezione Maramotti centering on the installation work ‘Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors’. The images – which include behind-the-scenes photographs and works in progress – assume various vantages on Manders’ practice, teasing out the semantic and spacial elements and hierarchies that have informed his work since 1986.
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‘Wandering Off’ details the works of Antwerp-based artist Lara Dhondt, whose artistic process comprises various stages of documentation. Plotting the location of her public sculptures on Google Maps, the sites of her creations and her photography can be traced via the Internet coordinates as well as physical maps. Dhondt’s approach to working is both methodical and creative, the art itself occurring exclusively in outdoor, public spaces, and her process of documentation stylistically similar to movements such as land art and conceptual art of the late 60s and 70s. Constructed based on the dimensions of personal space, these demarcations and sculptures assume the form of nomadic symbols and serve as a monument to temporariness.
Buy HereQuote from ‘Journey to the End of the Night’ by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Image of the Nishi building at dusk by Tom Roe.
Meet our man Amos Enders-Moje. He is an obsessive collector of used bottles, old school TVs and, strangely, concrete cores. He looks like a mix between Brad Pitt and John Corbett (from his carpenter/’Sex in the City’ days but without the belly).
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Photo by Lee Grant
Photo by Lee Grant
To foster good health Benjamin Franklin took a daily ‘air bath’. What is an ‘air bath’ you ask. It’s where you open up all your windows, get nude and sit in the breeze for a while. How nice.
Novelist Emily Bronte suffered from insomnia. She held an evening ritual of walking around in circles until she fell asleep.
Lucy McRae by Lee Grant
Lucy McRae created the beautiful mirror behind the Hotel Hotel reception desk.
Her work is part of the Hotel Hotel Broached Commission. This piece takes inspiration from the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
Lucy’s works inhabit an artistic realm that straddles the worlds of sculpture, architecture, science and fashion design; manipulating the body’s natural structure to invent novel anatomical forms.
