Simryn Gill: Sweet Chariot
Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? I saw a band of angels coming after me, If you get there before I do, Tell all [...]
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Gabrielle Jones’ Wicked Games
“full of shining light…[she] lets the inner things – her soul – come in to her paintings [and] evokes feelings from the viewer.” Charles Blackman, discussing the [...]
Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White
Um…did I just attend the ballet, or an extended routine at Love & Rockets (if you’re not from Brisbane, google it)? Yes, the Gaultier-designed costumes were a [...]
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 [...]
Elysha Rei: Rare Bird
Brisbane artist Elysha Rei is the personification of the expression “worldly.” Born in Saudi Arabia, she lived with her family in Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and [...]
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 [...]
BP Portrait Prize Winner Announced
Turns out third time really is a charm for Edinburgh-born artist Clara Drummond, who has taken out the BP Portrait Prize with her portrait of fellow artist Kirsty Buchanan. A [...]
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