Mentor | Editor | Writer Founding Editor of Lemonade: Letters to Art, a new reviews platform dedicated to exhibitions in Queensland, Australia
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined October 2013
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What, I hear you cry, are these? From Egypt, 3000+ years ago, these ivory “clappers”, in the form of human hands (with bracelets), were percussion instruments used to shake & rattle against each other, to keep rhythm in musical performances
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This remarkable floor mosaic of an octopus fighting a lobster, surrounded by a spectacular variety of sea creatures, was found during the excavation of the House of the Dancing Faun, ancient Pompeii’s richest residence (1st century, National Archaeological Museum, Naples)
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🎉 Congratulations to Julia Gutman, who's won the #ArchibaldPrize 2023 for portrait 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground' of singer-songwriter @actualmontaigne: bit.ly/3Lv1n6C
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Julia Gutman 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground' © the artist
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Crocheted canopy for shade in public space, created by 40 local women of Cartaya, Spain #WomensArt
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1/ @JubbishJay creates imagery too sublime to be real. Frozen mountains. Ancient rock formations. Figures lost in the land.
This Escher Editorial celebrates the pristine beauty of Jubbish Jay’s adventure photography, revealing roots in Romanticism, Pictorialism & Impressionism.
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Without Mauve, Rubens, Hiroshige, Gauguin, Monticelli, and so many others whose art he learned from, nor without the support of Père Tanguy or Agostina Segatori, nor the devotion of Theo and the efforts of Jo, would the van Gogh now so beloved around the world have ever existed.
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4,000 year old pectoral with necklace, from tomb of Egyptian Princess Sithathoryunet ~ cloisonné enamel with gold & 372 fashioned pieces of lapis lazuli, turquoise, garnets & other semiprecious stones, flanked by falcons, as symbols of the sun god metmuseum.org/art/collection…
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What's your favorite detail of any work of art? I think the right hand of Michelangelo's David is one of the greatest things ever made.
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“Death blowing bubbles,” one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany.
The bubbles are symbols of the fragility of life 🫧
Lemonade is weekly art criticism for the Sunshine state.
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Congratulations to @DrMayhew on launching Lemonade, a new art criticism platform. 😻
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Exhibition reviews satisfy one of two possibilities: to think through an exhibition more deeply or see something new. For Lemonade’s opening review, I chose the latter... The Apple and the Knife surveys four decades of practice by Canadian-born, Somerset local, Merton Chambers.
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The first exhibition review for Lemonade hits inboxes tomorrow morning! Lemonade is a new reviews platform for exhibitions in the Sunshine State.
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Lemonade: Letters to Art is tentatively stretching into being, reviewing art exhibitions in the Sunshine State. You can read the first two micro reviews here: instagram.com/lemonade_lette…
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Survey for artists + artworkers
I'm gathering data on the un/paid work we commit to running the artworld. I'm keen to hear from emerging artists + creatives in volunteer/early career spaces.
Participation is voluntary; it takes approx. 10 mins
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I’m on the hunt for emerging artist bio’s needing work. If this is you or someone you know, feel free to point them my way!
Pic reads: Do you have an emerging artist bio that needs fixing? I'm looking for 5 artist bios to use as examples in workshops.
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The fine print: Suitable for one paragraph bios; Your text must be a genuine attempt at following artworld norms and filled with relevant details; Email to me in word doc or Google doc format: louisermayhew@gmail.com;
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