Naomi Riddle

Have You Listened to ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’?

Naomi RiddleArtReview29 August 2024

Featuring the only physical copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s mythical album, Namedropping at Mona, Hobart explores how art and brands are deployed as signals for garnering power, sex and reputation – as if art were never anything more than status

24th Biennale of Sydney Review: A World Ablaze

Naomi RiddleArtReview15 May 2024

The 2024 edition, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’, is a celebratory display that ‘refuses to concede to apocalyptic visions of the future’ – but is that possible right now?

Nicholas Mangan: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

Naomi RiddleArtReview13 May 2024

Extraction, value systems and the potential for transformation drive the ‘material storytelling’ in Nicholas Mangan’s films and sculptures

The National 4 Review: Loosening Primacy

Naomi RiddleArtReview22 May 2023

The fourth iteration, ‘Australian Art Now’, proposes alternative modes of thinking for ideas local, communal and diasporic

23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus

Naomi RiddleArtReview Asia01 June 2022

The biennale format is a breeding ground for grand ideas – but can it ever really engage meaningfully with issues of mass extinction and biodiversity loss

Indigenous Futurism: 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – Review

Naomi RiddleArtReview Asia21 April 2022

APT10 allows for an expansive and specific investigation into the diverse forms of artmaking across the Asia Pacific

Philippa Cullen’s Philosophy of Dance

Naomi RiddleArtReview10 November 2021

‘The Dancer’, Evelyn Juers’s biography of Cullen, charts not only the Australian experimental artist’s life, but also her ancestry, the settler-colonial history of Australia and the larger sociopolitical context of her time