★★☆☆☆ Theatre Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! by Singapore Repertory Theatre, La Boite Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company

SRT, La Boite Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company’s karaoke-inspired ghost story struggles to find the note. Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Congratulations, Get Rich! arrives with an impressive pedigree, marking a first-time co-production between SRT, Sydney Theatre Company, and Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre. Written by and starring Merlynn Tong, the play promises a raucous blend of karaoke comedy, family tragedy, and ghostly intervention. On paper, it sounds … Continue reading ★★☆☆☆ Theatre Review: Congratulations, Get Rich! by Singapore Repertory Theatre, La Boite Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Dane Lovett

SYDNEY – Melbourne-based painter Dane Lovett’s 2019 solo exhibition takes as its starting point an anecdotal link between Georgia O’Keefe’s 1930’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit series and Lovett’s own ongoing series of dog portraits. Poisonous if ingested, Arisaema triphyllum is lethal to pets. This tenuous but violent link reflects a particular interest in the behavior of images in cyberspace where incongruity and free distribution allows for slippages between the iconic and the everyday, the … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Dane Lovett

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Future Past – Tradition & Transgression In Contemporary Art From Asia

SYDNEY – At Sullivan + Strumpf Sydney’s latest exhibition, titled Future Past: tradition and transgression in contemporary art from Asia, the gallery brings together fourteen contemporary artists working across East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific to consider the ways in which current art practices in the region interface with limits of historically determined artistic and cultural boundaries, and how these collisions of past and present might inform one … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) presents Future Past – Tradition & Transgression In Contemporary Art From Asia

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Joanna Lamb’s Everything Is Waiting

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – This March, Sullivan + Strumpf Sydney presents an all new exhibition by Australian artist Joanna Lamb. Titled Everything Is Waiting, the award-winning artist newest collection discusses how each and every thing in the world is waiting, from the sky to the land, the tree to the birds and even cities, buildings, roads and houses. There is an inevitability to what occurs in life … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Joanna Lamb’s Everything Is Waiting

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Richard Lewer’s Kokoda – The Adventure of a Lifetime

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Next February, Sullivan + Strumpf Sydney will present Richard Lewer’s Kokoda: The Adventure of a Life Time. Informed by his own recent experience of walking the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, the exhibition references the war-time propaganda sold to Australian Soldiers who embarked for New Guinea during the Second World War with a romanticised image of the deadly situation and extreme conditions they … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Richard Lewer’s Kokoda – The Adventure of a Lifetime