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My favourite work

Curators and gallery directors introduce their favourite works and explain their personal significance in this video series
  • Adelaide Festival Richard Lewer’s Worst Luck I’m Still Here

    My favourite work: Richard Lewer’s Worse Luck I’m Still Here at the Adelaide Biennial 2014 - video

    The sadness behind the surface in homes throughout the suburbs is the driving force behind this moving, animated piece from Richard Lewer

  • Phantasmagoria Adelaide Festival

    My favourite work: Julia de Ville's Phantasmagoria at Adelaide Biennial 2014

    A dream child's bedroom for Julia de Ville might look like the stuff of nightmares for others, but for Robert Reason, curator of European and Australian decorative arts at the Art Gallery of South Australia, it's the pick of this year's Adelaide Biennial

  • Fiona Hall - Out of my tree

    My favourite work: Fiona Hall's Out of My Tree at Adelaide Biennial 2014 – video

    2014 Adelaide Biennial artist Julia Robinson explains why Australian artist Fiona Hall's nightmarish collection Out of My Tree is her pick at this year's Biennial Dark Heart. Skulls, cuckoo clocks and other memento mori line the room. Filling the air are the cries of crows, a musty smell and the ticking of clocks. Is this a countdown to our own death?

  • Grieving Blonde - Adelaide Biennial

    My favourite work: A Dozen Useless Actions for Grieving Blondes by Rosemary Laing – video

    Curator of the 2014 Adelaide Biennial, Nick Mitzevich, explains why Rosemary Laing's 'A dozen useless actions for grieving blondes' is amongst his favourite works at this year's 'Dark Heart' exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia

  • Kulata Tjuta - Adelaide Biennial 2014

    My favourite work: Kulata Tjuta Project at Adelaide Biennial 2014 – video

    In a corner of the Art Gallery of South Australia, hundreds of spears hang from the ceiling, the product of a group of artists from a remote indigenous community in South Australis's APY lands

  • The Laquer Room by Grace Cossington Smith

    My favourite work: The Lacquer Room by Grace Cossington Smith – video

    Denise Mimmocchi, curator at the Gallery of NSW talks about her favourite work, The Lacquer Room by Grace Cossington Smith

  • Madonna and child with infant John the Baptist

    My Favourite Work: The Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist by Domenico Beccafumi – video

    Georgina Cole, art historian at Gallery of NSW talks about her favourite work, the mannerist masterpiece The Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist by Domenico Beccafumi

  • Fruit Bats by Lin Onus (1991)

    My favourite work: Fruit Bats by Lin Onus

    Cara Pinchbeck introduces Fruit Bats by Lin Onus, a Yorta Yorta painter, sculptor and activist. The mixed-media sculpture depicts a flock of fibreglass bats hanging on a Hills Hoist clothes line.

  • Sorry and I didn't do it by Tony Albert and Richard Bell

    My favourite works: Sorry, and I Didn't Do It - video

    Bruce McLean, curator of Indigenous art at Qagoma, Brisbane, introduces Sorry by Tony Albert and I didn't do it by Richard Bell

  • Heritage by Cai Quo Quiang

    Heritage by Cai Quo Quiang at Goma, Brisbane – my favourite work: video

    Brisbane festival: Russell Storer, curatorial manager for Asian and Pacific art at Qagoma, introduces Heritage by Cai Quo Quiang

  • Evicted by Blandford Fletcher

    My favourite work: Evicted by Blandford Fletcher – video

    Brisbane festival: David Burnett, curator of international art at Qagoma introduces Evicted by Blandford Fletcher

  •  My favourite works: Huang Yong Ping’s sculpture Ressort

    My favourite work: Ressort by Huang Yong Ping - video

    Russell Storer, curatorial manager for Asian and Pacific art, at Qagoma introduces Ressort by Huang Yong Ping

  • Neither pride nor courage

    My favourite work: Neither Pride nor Courage by Vernon Ah Kee – video

    Brisbane festival: Bruce McLean curator of Indigenous Art at Qagoma talks about his favourite piece of art: Neither Pride nor Courage, a triptych by Vernon Ah Kee

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