Nadia Bailey

Melbourne

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Mostly void, partially stars. Writer | PhD candidate | words in @TheAge @SMH @GourmetTweets etc

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Articles

PJ Harvey at Plenary; Cigarettes After Sex at Rod Laver Arena; WOMADelaide 2025; Three Sisters at Theatre Works

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Karl Quinn |Nadia Bailey |Jessica Nicholas |Cameron Woodhead

By Karl Quinn, Nadia Bailey, Jessica Nicholas and Cameron WoodheadUpdated March 12, 2025 — 3.21pmfirst published March 11, 2025 — 3.55pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
A plumber from Tassie has brought more magic to Cirque du Soleil

Jul 29, 2024 | smh.com.au | Nadia Bailey

"I knew that world existed, but it's not something everyone gets exposure to," he says of his journey from Australia's southernmost state to a life among carnival workers.
A plumber from Tassie has brought more magic to Cirque du Soleil

Jul 29, 2024 | theage.com.au | Nadia Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cirque du Soleil’s enduring appeal is that it offers a break from reality: inside the tent, the world is brighter, more beautiful, more beguilingly surreal. So it’s perhaps surprising that one of the astonishing moments at Luzia, the company’s current show, is provided by something utterly ordinary: a sudden downpour of rain.
God-kings and everyday people: NGV’s blockbuster isn’t just about pharaohs

Jun 12, 2024 | theage.com.au | Nadia Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pharaoh is, by the numbers, an enormous exhibition. It boasts more than 500 objects. It spans 3000 years of history. It sprawls across the entire ground floor of the gallery.
NGV's blockbuster isn't just about pharaohs

Jun 12, 2024 | smh.com.au | Nadia Bailey

The scenography gives breathing space to artefacts that are breathtaking for their size and physical presence: a remarkably intact life-sized sculpture of Pharaoh Sety II, a phalanx of 10 lion-headed statues representing the goddess Sekhmet, an intricately decorated coffin base made for the afterlife of a temple doorkeeper. Wall projections offer glimpses of the sky in different aspects and undulating waters suggestive of the Nile, grounding the exhibition in a sense of place.
Nick Cave moves from howling rage to heartbreak in electric Melbourne gig

Apr 25, 2024 | smh.com.au | Nadia Bailey

MUSIC Nick Cave ★★★★Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, until April 27 On his last visit to Australia, Nick Cave played the wild and lovely surrounds of Hanging Rock; on this tour, he has been booked to play Plenary Hall, a very grand, utterly soulless venue in Melbourne's Convention and Exhibition Centre. The ceilings are high. The carpet is plush. The seats are several different shades of green, all of them virulent. The mismatch between venue and artist is not lost on Cave.
Nick Cave moves from howling rage to heartbreak in electric Melbourne gig

Apr 25, 2024 | theage.com.au | Nadia Bailey |Cameron Woodhead

By Nadia Bailey and Cameron Woodhead April 26, 2024 — 12.21pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Most comprehensive survey of artist’s work ever to be brought to Australia, opens in 2024

Apr 14, 2024 | theage.com.au | Nadia Bailey

By Nadia Bailey April 15, 2024 — 11.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You’ll be familiar with the polka dots. Scattered over outsized pumpkins, crowding the walls of hallucinatory mirrored rooms, or splashed across Louis Vuitton bags, this playful motif is as synonymous to Yayoi Kusama as the soup can is to Andy Warhol.
This 95-year-old is the NGV's next blockbuster artist

Apr 14, 2024 | smh.com.au | Nadia Bailey

You'll be familiar with the polka dots. Scattered over outsized pumpkins, crowding the walls of hallucinatory mirrored rooms, or splashed across Louis Vuitton bags, this playful motif is as synonymous to Yayoi Kusama as the soup can is to Andy Warhol. At a new exhibition opening in summer at the NGV, these dots will take over the entire ground floor of the gallery, in the most comprehensive survey of Kusama's work ever to be brought to Australia.
It’s not too late: A last-minute guide to navigating the Triennial

Apr 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Nadia Bailey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You’ve put it off and put it off. You thought you had plenty of time. But suddenly you’ve realised that the NGV Triennial, which is free and only happens every three years, closes this Sunday. You’ve seen the Instagrams of the banana taped to the wall, and you think you remember something about a robot dog.