The Anxious Australian Art Star: On Ella Baxter’s Woo Woo
Who is the Australian art world’s real stalker?

Still from Fiona Macdonald, Museum Emotions: A Conceptual Soap Opera in 9 Episodes, 2003, Digital Betacam, 104 minutes, Episode 8, The Body with Organs That Got Left Out in the Rain: collaborative artists Josephine (Rachel Meisner) and Torbjorn (Brendan Lee), with Generic, Boring Video Art 543. Written and directed by the artist. Courtesy the artist.
Sitting on the cold concrete floor of the VCA Sculpture Shed, I was promised I would become an art star. We all were. This was our teacher’s tactic of soft manipulation days before the spectacle of grad show. A decade later, none of us did.
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The Anxious Australian Art Star: On Ella Baxter’s Woo Woo by Aodhan Madden is featured in full in Issue 5 of Memo magazine.
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Aodhan Madden is an artist and writer based in Paris. They are Contributing Editor at Spike. @aodhanmadden


