this is very cool and atmospheric. quality mix too.

An immersive soundscape composed by Australian musical artists Suzie Higgie and Tim Oxley, that responds directly to Thin Skin's artworks, themes and curatorial concerns.

Thin Skin is an exhibition of paintings by Australian and international artists who explore the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. Guest curated by Australian, London-based writer, curator and former editor of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, it features works by more than thirty artists.

As a term, ‘thin skin’ is joyfully ambiguous. Thin Skin refers not only to the delicate membrane that separates body, mind and environment, but to other borders: thresholds between reason and unreason, wisdom and foolishness, life and death, the conscious and unconscious, laughter and weeping. To have ‘thin skin’ is to be hypersensitive to the world around you. Paint is a thin skin on a surface.

Some of the artists selected for Thin Skin employ absurdity, slapstick, parody, caricature and/or dreamlike logic to explore themselves and their place in the world. Others depict bodies in rich, often intertwined, conversations with the psyche, the land, domestic or work environments and with animals. Thin Skin also embraces the idea of ‘thin places’, an ancient term of mysterious provenance that refers to locations with a unique or peculiar energy. They are places that attract spirits; they appear when the distance between earth and heaven narrows. In Thin Skin, the ephemeral is made tangible.

Thin Skin
20 July – 23 September 2023
Monash University Museum of Art

Thin Skin

Artist Erin Shirreff, curator Davide Gasparotto, and conservator Ulrich Birkmaier.

Erin Shirreff, Artemisia Gentileschi

Artist Masako Miki, artist/curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds

Masako Miki, Katherine Simóne Reynolds

Ben Shahn

To accompany her artist commission for RALLY 2025, Anna Howard and our Public Programme Curator Matt Williams were in discussion about how her piece 'Record' will be realised at the festival.

RALLY Artist Commission 2025: Anna Howard and Matt Williams in conversation

Summer clips: Tidawhitney Lek

Three of the New Curators, Nailah Reine Barnes, Jasmine Lee and Ugbad Yussuf  sat down for a discussion around 'akâmi-' by Duane Linklater with Ethel (Trapper) Linklater, Tobias Linklater and Grey Plumes.

New Curators on 'akâmi-'

Holiday clips: Saif Azzuz

Japanese American National Museum director Ann Burroughs, curator Cory Korkow

Ann Burroughs, the museum director who stood up to Trump, Giambologna

Curator Michelle White, artist Nanette Carter

Rauschenberg Fabrics, Nanette Carter

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