quarARTine #4 – Amanda van Gils at The Other Art Fair
Brisbane-based landscape painter Amanda van Gils is one of many artists whose work was to be shown at The Other Art Fair, Sydney, this month. Regular followers may recall me [...]
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quarARTine #3
If ever there was proof of how globally connected we really are, it’s in the volume of artists from far away lands contacting me in little ol’ Brisbane, [...]
quarARTine #1
One of the first casualties of Australia’s ban on gatherings over 500 people was The Other Art Fair, due to be held 19-22 March in Sydney, and 21-24 May in Melbourne. [...]
Deborah Eddy’s Domesticity
My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first is hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck WASH. IRON. COOK. CLEAN. WORK. WORK. WORK. Repeat. [...]
Helena Jackson Lloyd: The Truck Show
There is a deceptive simplicity in Helena Lloyd’s approach to painting. Her energetic sweeps of colour and direct application of media bring a spontaneity to her subjects [...]
Lucy O’Doherty: Are we safe here?
Lucy O’Doherty’s quirky, immediately identifiable aesthetic is the result of experimentations with colour, technique, light and shade. Using a retro colour palette and [...]
Sally Anderson: The Washdown and Salvation Jane
A love of process and insatiable curiosity for life’s contradictions are the hallmarks of Sally Anderson’s painterly style. Abstracted and instinctual, her compositions [...]
Charmaine Pike at Edwina Corlette Gallery
Charmaine Pike’s sublime landscapes are both tense and uplifting, recalling the 19th century painting trend for personifying nature in order to reflect the human [...]
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Situated at the Larapinta Valley Town Camp at the base of Mt Gillen in Alice Springs, the Art Room of the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre has quickly become one of the most [...]
Dan Kyle at Edwina Corlette Gallery
The lyrical splendour of the Australian bush is captured in Dan Kyle’s painterly mark. Hovering somewhere between figuration and abstraction, his landscapes play with [...]
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