The Work of Paul Davies
JuxtapozFebruary 23 2012
We have always been fascinated by architectural fine art, whether it be Evan Hecox' city paintings or even the way that Ian Francis has incorporated buildings into his dreamy paintings. Today, we were stroked by the work of Australian artist Paul Davies, whose work is primarily concerns with modern architecture, and has been influences by the like of Jeffrey Smart and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Paper RunwayAnna Johnson
17 Feb 2012
The Australian artist Adrienne Gaha has lived in Europe since 1993. This past summer she returned to Sydney for a solo show, a painting stint at a small studio with the National Art School and screen printing workshop in Melbourne after a fairly long hiatus from exhibiting. She took a seven-year break from painting to concentrate on her family, and in that time absorbed herself in drawing and exploring the more obscure small museums of Paris and London.
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The Sydney Morning HeraldMatt Buchanan
3/2/12
You remember them, don't you? The steel sculptures of athletes appearing to strain and swing off the top of Sydney Tower, commissioned to celebrate the Sydney Olympics in 2000?
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PentimentoArt Almanac
24/1/2012
Paul Davies upcoming exhibition at the Tim Olsen Gallery 'Pentimento' February 22 - March 12 2012 is featured in the February edition of Art Alamanc, Australias gallery guide.
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Qantas MagazineLarry Writer
10/1/12
From Lake Eyre to Sydney Harbour the Australian landscape remains a treasured muse for John Olsen, one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists.
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The Sydney Morning Herald - Good WeekendJanet Hawley
10/11/12
John Olsen, our greatest living artist on squeezing the juice from his final years.
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Visceral Experience
The Mosman DailyKate Crawford
18/11/2011
THE dark and moody portrait of anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson was painted “with blood, bone and fat”, according to the artist.
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Portrait's - National Portrait Gallery MagazineAshleigh Wadman
Nov 25th 2011
Guy Maestri’s portrait of the musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, was conceived after the artist saw Gurrumul perform in Sydney on New Years Eve 2008. Maestri found the performance unforgettable and recalled that, ‘word had been going around all day and the rumours were true- people really were moved to tears.’
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Artist ProfileNicholas Harding
November 2011
Artist friends, Nicholas Harding and Robert Malherbe, dscuss the influence of past masters on teir drawing practices, and what is it about these hisotrical innovators that makes their influence so enduring
_continue readingMarie Hagerty's Mutating Canvases
Australian Art ReviewPrue Gibson
2/11/11
Prue Gibson explores the artists swelling and elastic forms which appear to change shape before the viewers eye.
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Australian Art ReviewSasha Grishin
Sept-Oct 2011
Although Peter Vandermark was born in Melbourne in 1960, he is essentially a Canberra artist, who trained at the Australian National University School of Art, worked for almost a decade as a studio assistant to one of Canberra’s most famous artists, Rosalie Gascoigne, and has practised his art from Canberra and worked in Canberra art institutions.
_continue readingJohn Olsen - A Life on the Line
Artist ProfileSteve Lopes + Leo Robba
Issue 16
In his eighth decade, artist John Olsen’s legendary lust for life is as obvious as ever and so is his devotion to drawing, a practice that has underpinned his long and distinguished career. What is also evident when talking with Olsen is that his diverse life experiences have informed his approach to art. Memories of tough times during the Depression in the late 1920’s, creative battles of a life spent dedicated to art, and the many wonderful people who have shared his world and great places he has visited are all deeply intertwined through his work. He is still looking outward, projecting what he sees and more importantly celebrating life- just as he did as a young boy growing up in Newcastle, discovering a passion for drawing.
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Gourmet TravellerPat Nourse
July 2011
Tribute – Vale David Band
The late David Band left a distinct stamp on graphic design in Australian restaurants, writes Michael Harden.
Olsen Finds New Shapes in the Vastness of the Landscape
The Sydney Morning HeraldLouise Schwartzkoff
June 9 2011
At a table laden with paint-crusted crockery, John Olsen slides his brush into a dish if curdling watercolour. The paint is as thick and creamy as the salt deposits on the surface of Lake Eyre. It bleeds at the edges when Olsen strokes his brush across a freshly painted indigo background. “Look there,” he says. “It’s alive. And there’s sort of a running figure, you see? Ill just give it some arms.”
_continue readingPatron, paint and the ceiling
Sydney Morning HeraldMatt Buchanan
May 28-29 2011
Earlier this month Sydney lost one of its great arts patrons, Ann Lewis, to cancer. Over the years Lewis enriched the culture, donating remarkable and extraordinarily valuable paintings, photography and sculpture to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Australia and others
_continue readingThe things that still move us: Philip Hunter in conversation with Fiona Hile
Art & AustraliaFiona Hile
April 2011
Philip Hunter has talked about his work as ‘an invariably complex field of conceptual possibilities and material outcomes; a zone where different foci, fragments, textures, perspectives, illusory spaces, moods and views coexist.’ A conversation with the artist can be as complex as one of his paintings, and when I visited him recently at his Melbourne studio where he was preparing for a forthcoming exhibition at Sydney’s Tim Olsen Gallery we discussed, among other things, his recent trip to Europe; his new ‘tropical inland sea’ paintings; Borges; Calvino; wasp nests; dog fences; horseshoes; memory palaces; horizons and ‘a vast book with no pages’ . What follows is a slice taken from that conversation.
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Sydney Morning HeraldWendy Frew
11/04/2011
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Art 101
Inside OutLeta Keens
April 2011
Love art but unsure how to start your own collection? Experts, curators and gallery directors reveal their tips on how to find what suits your taste, budget and home.
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Hapers BazaarJane Albert
May 2011
The hottest new creatives in the frame.
_continue reading20 Questions
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
12/03/2011
20 Questions
Guy Maestri
Archibald winner, Johnny Cash fan, Mudgee boy, coffee snob.