BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age the 17th Biennale of Sydney exhibition catalogue
2009
Before and After Science, Adelaide Biennale exhibition catalogue
2008
Anne Loxley, ‘Mikala Dwyer: coalescence and dissolution’, Art World 3, June-July
Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy, exhibition catalogue, Jewish Museum, Melbourne
2007
Mystic Truths, exhibition catalogue, Auckland Art Gallery, NZ
High Tide, exhibition catalogue, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
Black Sun Blue Moon, exhibition catalogue, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin
2006
Gabriela Switek, ‘And who so happy?’, Broadsheet, June – August
2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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Hannah Scott, Plastika, Publicartion by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Summer
Sebastian Smee, 'Pipe Dreams', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January
2000
Edward Colless, Mikala Dwyer, catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Limited edition artist page, inversions, mawa: mentoring artists for women's art, Winnipeg, Fall
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Stephan Caddick, ‘Mikala Dwyer’, AN Magazine, March
Sylvie Couderc, 'Recent contemporary art in Australia: from the interpretation of origins to the bias of the diverse', Bonheurs des Antipodes, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France
Benjamin Genocchio, 'Alchemy with a Mischievous Touch', Sydney Morning Herald, 29 December
Linda Michael, 'The Little Temples of Love for the Dead Things', Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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1999
Stella Brennan, Nostalgia for the Future, Artspace, Auckland
B. Clark-Coolee, 'Holy Hell!', Brainland, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Alex Gawronski, 'Mikala Dwyer', Like, # 9, Winter
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Bruce James, 'Sights', The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May
Bruce James, 'Galleries', The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May
Rachel Kent, ‘Minimalism Past and Present', The Infinite Space: women, minimalism and the sculptural object, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Helen Nicholson, avant-gardism for children, catalogue, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Robert Rooney, 'Show them the money', The Australian, 25-6 September, (review)
Toni Ross, 'Mikala Dwyer', Contempora5, National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne
Jenny Spinks, The organic and the artificial, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1998
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David Broker, Beauty 2000, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1997
Rex Butler, 'Radical Revisionism', Eyeline, # 33 Autumn / Winter
Phil Kelly, 'Untitled: Mikala Dwyer', Monica, Summer
Toni Ross, 'The trouble with spectator-centred criticism: Encountering Mikala Dwyer's art with Eva Hesse and Minimalism', Eyeline, # 35, Summer
1996
Edward Colless, 'Undon', Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Rex Butler, Hollowware and a few solids, BARBERism & Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1995
Edward Colless, Sad songs, Artspace, Sydney; reprinted in Midwest, # 8
Edward Colless, 'White', Art+Text, # 48
Anna Johnson, 'young at art', The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 26 April
Anna Johnson, 'Art Beat', The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November
Bridie Lonie, 'Dunedin: Mikala Dwyer', Art New Zealand
Elwyn Lynn, 'Women at Watters, Octette', The Australian, 10 March
Robyn McKenzie, ‘Disorder of domesticity falls a little flat’, The Age, 29 May
Midwest, 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', interview with Mikala Dwyer, Midwest, # 8
Zara Stanhope, Nostalgic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1994
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David Cross, 'Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial', Art+Text, # 47, January
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Felicity Fenner, ‘Trappings of desire’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June
Felicity Fenner, 'Double entente and a debut in white', The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February
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Michael Hutak, 'Body of decor in overdrive', The Sydney Morning Herald,17 June
Natalie King, ‘Mikala Dwyer’, Art+Text, #49
Elwyn Lynn, 'Sighs and lows of the reviewer's trade', The Australian, 12-13 February
Linda Michael, No, Not Ever: the nail polish series, BARBERism, Sydney
Catriona Moore, 'Museum Hygiene', Photofile, # 41, March
Robert Schubert, ‘Restaging Abstraction’, Art+Text, # 49
Linda Williams, 'The Aberrant Object', Art+Text, # 48
1993
Helen Back, 'Everybody's in the House of Love', Henle's Loop, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
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Felicity Fenner, 'A funky, fashionable & feelgood exhibition', The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October
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Felicity Fenner, 'Lowly grunge meets high Pop', The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May
Felicity Fenner, 'Wish Hard', The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January
Graham Fenner, 'Monster Field', Art+Text, # 46
Sue Best, Purl & Plane Geometry', Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, vol 2, Melbourne
Jeff Gibson, 'The Good the Bad and the Abstract', Art+Text, # 44
Jo Hard, Wish Hard, Woollongong City Gallery, Woollongong
Artist's page, 'Fill', Broadsheet, Vol. 22 # 4, Summer
Anne Lim, 'Urban art shows its true grit', The Australian, 24 September
George Petelin, 'Art in Brisbane', The Australian, 16 July
Jane Rankin-Reid, 'Shirthead', Art+Text, # 46
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Jeff Gibson, 'Avant-Grunge', Art+Text, # 45
1992
Linda Michael, Primavera: The Belinda Jackson exhibition of young artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Mary Eagle, ‘Discrete Entity’, Art+Text, # 41
Sasha Grishin, 'Taking a swipe at conformity', The Canberra Times, 16 October
Anne McDonald, 'Discrete Entity', Agenda, # 20-21
Maria Sierra-Hughes, 'Wall to Wall, Ceiling to Floor: Mikala Dwyer', Agenda, # 17
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1991
C. Chapman, 'Discrete Entity: The Accomplice and Installation', Eyeline, Summer
Gail Hastings, Wall to wall: ceiling to floor, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne
Artist statement, ‘Frames of Reference; Aspects of feminism and art’
