Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
First, it’s the capture of light that draws your attention, refracted across the canvas like rippled water in a creek. Then it’s the way colour and movement wrestle in [...]
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Ray Coffey’s Surreal Talent
Born in Liverpool during the post-Beatlemania counterculture of the 60s, Ray Coffey realised he might have a talent for drawing when, aged eight, a schoolmate accused him of [...]
ART500: Helping Art Lovers Become Art Owners
“The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait” Dennis Heckler Stand me in any suburban homemaker centre, and my face will reflect a mix of horror and fatigue. [...]
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 [...]
Clairy Laurence: Clairy in Wonderland
Had the writer Lewis Carroll chosen clay over pen & paper, he may well have created something like the work of Clairy Laurence. A ceramicist with over 30 years of [...]
Andy Harwood: the art of Geometric Abstraction
I first chanced upon the work of Andy Harwood in a café in Brisbane’s Paddington. Waiting for a business meeting with someone who never showed, I was distracted by the [...]
Emma Lindsay’s UQAM Coup
Very occasionally a bit of art news comes across my desk (okay, fine…it flicks up on facebook…whatever) that absolutely warms my heart. This is one of those things… [...]
Amica Whincop’s Enchanted Art
I am eternally jealous of anyone who experienced an English upbringing. As a kid, I had an intense love of all things Enid Blyton, and was desperate for my Gold Coast [...]
A statement from CAST on Australia Council cuts
The Confederation of Australian State Theatre Companies (CAST) has this morning come out swinging against Australia Council budget cuts that have seen 62 existing arts [...]
David Jones and The Colonial Collective Problem
I wrote the following essay for Bosz Gallery to coincide with local artist David Jones’ current exhibition The Colonial Collective Problem. I don’t normally [...]
