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Gabriella Coslovich

Gabriella Coslovich

Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.

The artwork of the Metro Tunnel

Carrier pigeons and a nod to Michelangelo: Inside the Metro Tunnel art

It’s a brave artist who takes on a public art commission, and I imagine a particularly daunting task making public art for a train station.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

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Mary Nolan, Family picnic under the sweet chestnut trees, Anduze, c1973.

How five generations of Boyd women shaped an artistic dynasty

The creative lives of five generations of Boyd women are finally revealed in a major new exhibition featuring more than 300 works, including intimate, never-before-seen family photographs by Mary Nolan.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
At one point Emma Louise Pursey wondered if her subject was toying with her from beyond the grave.

She wanted to tell Joy Hester’s story. It was the start of an eerie bond

Fuelled by rage and unnerving parallels, Emma Louise Pursey pays tribute to an overlooked star of Australian art.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Karl Wiebke, “Circular Building 4”.

What drives the human instinct to create art?

Critic Quentin Sprague attempts to answer questions about art, obsession and creativity through spending time with Australian artists.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Janet Dawson

Janet Dawson was told to ‘stick to one’ thing. Instead, she broke all the rules

Australia’s art maverick, Janet Dawson, finally gets her spotlight.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
“It’s interesting because as the dynamic has shifted and she has the power, I’m the one who is less secure,” says Walsh.

‘She plays the rich bitch so well’: Who is Mona’s first lady, Kirsha Kaechele, really?

From going to court over the Hobart museum’s Ladies Lounge to working with foresters, Mrs David Walsh is putting her wealthy dilettante persona to clever use.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
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Cao Fei, pictured in the Marigold Restaurant in Sydney’s Chinatown.

She’s one of the top 10 artists in the world. Now we’ll get to see why

Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first major Australian exhibition, My City Is Yours, showcases the work that has had her called one of the top artists on the planet.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Molto Bello is an exhibition of Italian design at Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Imagine Melbourne without coffee and Vespas. Here’s why you can’t ...

The Italian influence on our homes and city is celebrated in Heide’s new exhibition.

  • Gabriella Coslovich
Kirsha Kaechele installs the Ladies Lounge at Mona.

After winning the right to ban men, Mona’s Ladies Lounge is on the move

Mona’s controversial Ladies Lounge installation is about to embark on a new chapter, its creator has revealed.

  • Elizabeth Flux and Gabriella Coslovich
Kirsha Kaechele are her court win.

Mona’s ‘Ladies Lounge’ wins court battle to exclude men from art-filled space

An appeals court judge has ruled that the art gallery’s controversial Ladies Lounge is not discriminatory in refusing entry to men.

  • Gabriella Coslovich