CURATOR’S RADAR.

Dickens' upcoming survey Embracing Shadows does precisely that - collectively, these bodies of work confront the darkness at the heart of our nation, with its endgame in the folding of Aboriginal children in youth detention, spit-hooded and restrained in metal chairs. While the show was something of a homecoming for Whangarei-born Taylor, it was also a departure from the formal abstraction familiar to viewers of Taylor's work. 50 THINGS COLLECTORS SHOULD KNOW 8 LISA REIHANA "Everyone's collaborating - I want to corroborate with everybody instead", declares Maori artist Lisa Reihana in relation to the creative scope of her new work GROUNDLOOP, commissioned by the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) for Sydney Modern. I first met Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens in 2007 at a solo exhibition of her work at a commercial gallery in the leafy inner Sydney suburb of Paddington. [Extracted from the article]