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Catherine Wilson
Catherine Wilson, BFA(Hons), Dip World Art, is a freelance writer and editor currently based in Sydney and working freelance in South East Asia. She has written news, features, opinion and travel articles for The Brunei Times in Brunei, The Jakarta Post in Indonesia, Asia Sentinel in Hong Kong, Solomon Star in the Solomon Islands, London Progressive Journal in London and Crikey, source of independent journalism and news in Australia. Catherine has also written extensively about contemporary visual art, world art, culture and society for a-n Magazine and The Oxford Times newspaper in the United Kingdom, Artlink, Art & Australia and Art Asia Pacific in the Asia Pacific region and contributed essays to museum and gallery publications. In 2010, she held the position of Features Editor at The Brunei Times newspaper, based in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
Reviews
Ho Tzu Nyen: Earth [5 March 2011]
Singaporean artist and filmmaker, Ho Tzu Nyen, is not a newcomer to the international exhibition circuit. His first feature film, HERE, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 and his artworks which bring together sculpture, painting, Read on…
Artspace, Sydney
20 January - 20 February 2011
Artworks That Ideas Can Buy [20 August 2009]
It was interesting to visit an exhibition proclaiming to invite audience participation and be confronted with an impenetrable façade. After walking up and down Vyner Street in East London in search of the gallery, I was pointed in the direction Read on…
Wilkinson Gallery, London
29 May – 5 July
The Little Shop on Hoxton Street [29 June 2009]
Limoncello is 'The Little Shop on Hoxton Street', an intimate 'white cube' within a tiny shop frontage, located a short walk up Hoxton Street from the hub of noodle bars and cafes at Hoxton Square. The exhibition was, considering the space, an Read on…
Limoncello, London
7-21 May
Popok Tri Wahyudi: Lost Message [4 January 2009]
The becak1 generated a quiet rhythm through the midday heat, weaving across streets as cars and motorbikes swerved left and right. This was the city of Yogyakarta in southern central Java, with a cultural history dating back to the ancient Read on…
Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta
12 September - 18 October 2008
There is No Alternative (TINA) [24 November 2008]
On entering the exhibition, I had an uncanny sense of stepping back in time to witness the unfolding of a truth that had recently become reality. The legacy of Margaret Thatcher's economic policies in the 1980s, epitomised by her hegemonic Read on…
The Drawing Room, London
9 October - 30 November 2008
Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers [16 September 2008]
Over the past 15-20 years, there has been a growing legacy of texts and art exhibitions that have addressed issues of exile, displacement and migration, especially in relation to issues of globalisation. However, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers, Read on…
Ed. by Kobena Mercer, Co-published by inIVA and The MIT Press, 2008, 224pp, ISBN: 978-1-899846-45-0
1 January - 31 December 2008
Lynette Wallworth [16 July 2008]
Standing in a darkened room on a dais in front of a full length video screen, filled with an elusive shadowy void, and placing your hand over a luminous blue spot of light requires an act of faith, a willingness to confront the unknown, to connect Read on…
Theatre de l'Archeveche, International Festival d'Art Lyrique, Aix-en-Provence
27 June - 23 July 2008
Here [20 September 2007]
Several years ago, I was leafing through a large packet of curling black and white photographic prints. Taken by a relative as he roamed the streets of his home city, Shanghai, under siege in 1937, they captured both the smouldering tragedy in Read on…
OFOTO Gallery
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
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