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 #2
World Science Festival Brisbane (WSFB) was to be held 25-29 March 2020 this year, until COVID-19 reared its ugly germs. It’s not an event that immediately screams [...]
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. [...]
Helle Cook: Community of Light
It is hard for Australians to appreciate the precious commodity daylight can be. Being almost permanently sun-drenched across the continent, it’s easy to take our weather [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Zoe Young: The Sea is the Key, the Ocean is the Potion
Fascinated by the simple beauty of the everyday, Zoe Young works between still life, portraiture and abstraction to capture her delight in life’s fleeting moments, turning [...]
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