Artist residencies at Clothing Store Studios awarded for 2017
Everyone loves a good artist residency, and none more so than these guys! Tony Albert; Tully Arnot; Mikala Dwyer; Samuel Hodge; Nell; Claudia Nicholson; Other Architects [...]
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Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize Winners for 2016 are…ALL WOMEN!
I know, I know. There’s nothing as important in Australian art as The Archie’s aka Paint Sniffers Christmas! Here are the winners: Louise Hearman has taken out [...]
Damien Pasquale’s Rugged Control
“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 [...]
The Mythology of Charles Billich: a portrait of one of our most colourful characters
Charles Billich is an Australian gem. A man of genius, eccentricities, and controversy, he has acquired a legendary, almost mythic, status. Yet in a nation that does not [...]
The Instaart family say goodbye to Bowie…
Dennis Hopper once said “if I could put it into words, there’d be no need to paint it” and it seems that quote holds true for the artists on Instagram [...]
The Friendly Fire of Riverfire
I was sitting at my desk writing when the Super Hornets began their flyovers across the city – practice runs for Riverfire, a celebration of pyrotechnics and music that [...]
Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart
When Sydney artist Linde Ivimey was looking for a new studio space a few years ago, she chanced upon a two story warehouse in the inner west that was exactly what she [...]
Through a Glass Darkly: the art of Belinda Sinclair and Clairy Laurence
It was short and sweet and over so quickly I almost missed seeing it altogether, but fate intervened and thus it came about that I made it in to Jugglers Art Space for [...]
Damien Hirst at Fifty
I’m having a midlife crisis on Damien Hirst’s behalf. He turned fifty on the weekend, and from what I’ve seen of people who turn fifty, it’s no [...]
Jan Murphy Gallery: the First 20…
The thing I hear most regularly from people who find out I’m an Arts writer is some version of the statement “you must meet a lot of wankers”, and [...]
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