Californian artist Gary Abkin is something of an anomaly in the Australian art world. While so many of our hottest emerging artists view the Los Angeles art scene as one of the hippest spots to break in to, Abkin chose to swap America’s Golden State for our Sunshine State in 2003 … Continue reading Gary Abkin’s Grotesque Realisations
Somewhere between the worlds of graffiti, Japanese sugar pop and activist street art exists the work of Sunshine Coast artist Alison Mooney. Expansive, bright and energetic, Mooney’s gestural abstractions are experimentations in suspense and unknowing. Using a combination of media … Continue reading Alison Mooney: Suspense & Unknowing
“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.” Salman Rushdie The first time I came across Brisbane artist Jeremy Eden, he was a finalist in the Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing. He didn’t … Continue reading Jeremy Eden, the Hyper Real Deal
“The painting can develop something that is not at all related to the drawing and have no particular mood about it at all; it’s just a cool kind of reality that has a series of involvements within it; and the … Continue reading Damien Pasquale’s Rugged Control
David Jones: The Colonial Collective Problem, Bosz Gallery, Brisbane, 2016. David Jones is a crusader. A man of Butchalla, Dalungdalee heritage, he wields his art as a sword with which to cut down some of the most revered myths upon … Continue reading David Jones and The Colonial Collective Problem
“There are always flowers for those that want to see them” Henri Matisse Down a dirt road, one and a half hours southwest of Coffs Harbour, is the home and studio of painter Helen McCullagh. Isolated and without mobile reception, … Continue reading Helen McCullagh’s Simple Pleasures
I’m the first to admit that a lot of fine art photography leaves me cold. For every Bill Henson or James Craig Annan, there’s an infinite number of Anne Geddes wannabes (nope, I don’t get wanting to work with babies … Continue reading Emma Wright, Storyteller
If you haven’t dropped in to see the latest exhibition at Edwina Corlette Gallery, then you’re missing out on one of the most beautiful exhibitions to hang in Brisbane over the last few years. Local artist Lyndal Hargrave has created an immense body of work for this show, every one a radiant, prismatic celebration of the inherent beauty of geometry. To discover more of Lyndal’s work, and read my essay on her show New Geometricks, visit Edwina Corlette Gallery here. Continue reading Lyndal Hargrave at Edwina Corlette Gallery
Late last year I was lucky enough to sit down with Archibald and Wynne Prize finalist Julian Meagher to discuss his new body of work for Edwina Corlette Gallery. In front of an audience of VIP clients, artists, collectors and curators, we discussed Julian’s childhood growing up in a large Sydney family, and the growing desire to understand his ancestors. The show itself was a beautifully rendered portrait of a family and its tribulations, and incorporated both historical photos and his existing motifs of empty alcohol bottles and native Australian flora. Here’s a little excerpt from the piece I … Continue reading Julian Meagher’s Alone In The Sun
Long car trips along great stretches of highway…tree after tree flashing past…blue skies turning orange as the day ends…whispery white streaks of cloud…bugs on the windscreen, wipers flicking them off again…the first glimpse of ocean as you come around the headland…the purple and green of the mountain ranges…damp old rain-forests…burnt out landscapes where bush-fires have torn through…steam rising off the bitumen…dozing in the passenger seat, fresh air from an open window to keep you awake in the drivers seat… The romanticism attached to road trips has never really fallen away, even now those things so particular to road trips – … Continue reading Amanda van Gils: E-Motions
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