Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Art Guest artist for Overland 239: Seth Searle Seth Searle Cover Interior Seth Searle Seth Searle is a Melbourne-based artist with a BFA from the Victorian College of Arts and a Diploma of Arts (Visual Art) from RMIT University. She has shown in exhibitions including fragments, Daine Singer Gallery (2020); A Droplet Of Dew, Tinning Street Gallery (2020); Friends and Family, Daine Singer (2019); It Will Always Be Like This, Boom Gallery (2019); Hideaway, No Vacancy Gallery (2017); Sento, Enough Space (2016); Ready Or Not, House of Bricks (2016); Safe Space, Egg Gallery (2015). More by Seth Searle › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 October 202524 October 2025 · Art A coin is a mistranslation: Tamsen Hopkinson’s The Wishing Well Briony Galligan and Rosie Isaac The Wishing Well picks apart the mistranslations in Te Tiriti/the Treaty of Waitangi, to make audible the dangerous mistranslations of our present. It remakes language, history and material phenomena into a shimmering web. It is a proposition that invites us into meaning-making. Not the fixed meaning of mistranslation or property boundaries, but a generative, unfurling, interrelated meaning. 11 June 202512 June 2025 · Art The case of the missing painting: art, power, and the politics of reviews Sarah Schmidt In Australia’s arts sector, two recent reviews have appeared to uphold integrity while quietly protecting the institutions themselves. They tell a revealing story about how federal cultural organisations are handling controversy, and why the public should care.
