Everything, beautiful or not, is fleeting.
In 2011, curator Robert Leonard, summed up Michael Zavros’s art practice in an erudite article for the journal ‘Art & Australia’. It is often said that Zavros’s subject is beauty itself, but it…
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Wednesday 15 May 2013
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Tuesday 19 March 2013
A Private Collection — Artist’s Choice: Michael Zavros
Brisbane-based painter, sculptor and video artist Michael Zavros uses perfection as the overarching theme in his work, evident in his faultless renderings of images from fashion magazines, and vistas of the most sumptuous…
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Wednesday 12 September 2012
Queensland New Media Scholarship
With only days to go before the close of entries to the Queensland New Media Scholarship — excitement is starting to build around the office as the last assortment of applications come in. The…
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Thursday 3 May 2012
You Are Here, with Michael Jackson, in Gary, Indiana
Shortly after ‘Social Networking’ opened in March I recorded this interview with Zanny Begg detailing You Are Here’s interest in the current social, political and economic challenges found in Gary, Indiana in the…
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Friday 16 March 2012
Closer than we thought
While researching ‘Social Networking’ I came across the writings of Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler in their book Connected. Soon their thinking became the formative influence for my project. Together they illustrate that…
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Wednesday 14 December 2011
Emily Floyd’s ‘Steiner rainbow’ 2006
Melbourne sculptor Emily Floyd has very generously gifted to the Gallery the perfect birthday present for a youngster like GOMA — her Steiner rainbow 2006. Part of the weekend celebrations were a series…
