Taronga Zoo bird display puts visitors 'up close and personal' with endangered species
The Sydney Morning HeraldPeter Hannam
25 Ocrtober 2017
Visitors to Taronga Zoo over the next month are likely to be confronted by an unusual exhibition as they meander between enclosures.
Giant images of 10 birds, some of them endangered, will be scattered at key points around the zoo as part of an inaugural QBE Muse exhibition aimed at highlighting the beautiful intricacy of a species that is too often missed in the zoo and in the wild.
Image: Taronga Zoo bird keeper Brendan Host holds Griffin the sooty owl with an image of the bird taken by photographic artist Leila Jefferys. Photo: Kate Geraghty
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Paul Davies in Los Angeles
domusThe MAK Centre for Art and Architecture West Hollywood and This x That (who dedicates to bringing architecture and design to broader audiences) present a site-specific installation by artist Paul Davies at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles.
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Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
The Canberra TimesRon Cerabona
22 October 2017
In discussing what made a good portrait artist, Nicholas Harding cited a Chinese saying that it took "the head, the heart and the hand".
Harding - who won the 2001 Archibald Prize for a portrait of John Bell as King Lear - was at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday to talk about his exhibition Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits which is on display until November 26. Curated by Dr Sarah Engledow, it features works in a range of media including oil paintings of actor Hugo Weaving and writer Robert Drewe, gouache paintings of Harding's mother-in-law Edie Watkins and actress Anna Volska, and spur-of-the-moment drawings of airline passengers drawn on refuse and airsick bags.
Image: Artist Nicholas Harding at his exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits. Photo: Jamila Toderas
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Big Apple Impact
Sydney Morning Herald, Private SydneyAndrew Hornery
21 October 2017
Australian birdlife was also ruffling feathers in New York last week when Sydney gallery owner Tim Olsen had a star-studded cast turn up for the launch of artist Leila Jeffreys' extraordinary bird portraits at his Manhattan gallery Olsen Gruin, which has made quite an impact on the Big Apple art scene in just a few short months.
Image: Brooke Shields with Tim Olsen and Emerald Gruin in New York. Photo: Supplied
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Head to head Tim Storrier v McLean Edwards in Australia's richest art prize
The Daily TelegraphJacqui Taffel, Wentworth Courier
17 October 2017
ARTIST McLean Edwards is all over the Doug Moran portrait prize this year.
The two paintings he entered, of film maker Warwick Thornton and a self-portrait, were selected as semi-finalists. The self-portrait made it into the finalists, as did Tim Storrier’s portrait of Edwards, both vying to win $150,000 this week in Australia’s richest art prize.
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Brooke Sheilds Manhattan Townhouse
PEOPLE Hollywood at HomeOctober 2017
Brooke Sheilds' Manhattan Townhouse.
The actress decorates with style and substance.
Feathering her nest - Skye the Cockatoo - one of several large scale bird photos by Shields's friend Australian artist Leila Jeffreys on display - watches over the kitchen...
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Alan Jones | Winner of UNSW Print Prize at the Paddington Art Prize
October 2017Olsen Gallery wishes congratulations to Alan Jones, Winner of the UNSW Print Prize at the Paddington Art Prize for Painting 160 (Dunningham Reserve).
Painting 160 (Dunnigham Reserve), 2017, acrylic on linen
For a full list of finalists click here. The Paddington Art Prize exhibition will be open to the public for viewing from Thursday October 12 until Sunday 22 October 2017.
Whiteley scholarship for young artist Sally Anderson
The AustralianEmily Ritchie
13 October 2017
The fact an everyday object, such as a flower, can hold significant emotional importance and trigger memories forms the inspiration behind most of Sally Anderson’s work, including her winning entry in this year’s Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
“Everyone has stories attached to things,” the 27-year-old Sydney artist said. “I’m fascinated by the brain and cognition and how we hold emotional weight within certain objects. It’s so interesting to me how objects or landscapes can hold memories and how those memories can change over time; it’s not fixed.”
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Artist Sally Anderson wins Brett Whiteley travelling art scholarship
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
12 October 2017
Just one day after opening her first commercial solo exhibition in Sydney, artist Sally Anderson has won the 2017 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The 27-year-old was awarded the prize, a three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and $40,000 in living and travel expenses, for her painting Dilling's Bromeliads with Gullfoss Falls, an intriguing pairing of landscape and still life.
Photo: Artist Sally Anderson: ''I'm fascinated by memory.'' Photo: Kate Geraghty
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George Byrne | My Design Alley
October 2017George Byrnetalks with My Design Alley about his latest exhibition, NEW ORDER, at OLSEN GRUIN To view the full article please click here.
LAURA JONES | DUMBO FEATHER
September 2017OLSEN Gallery OLSEN gallery would like to congratulate Laura Jones. Laura Jones was recently named the feature artist for Dumbo Feather's climate change issues, in which she speaks about her time as an artist-in-residence at the Australian Museum Lizard Island Research Station. The article features Laura?s diary entries, where she documents her up-close experience of the Great Barrier Reef?s changing conditions. The feature also includes a podcast from their series That Time When, "where we chat with people about moments big or small that changed the course of their lives.
"Laura brings to life her experience of witnessing the Great Barrier Reef?s changing conditions, how she learnt to use her art as a form of activism and how she worked alongside science to interpret and bring attention to the problems that our planet is facing".
Below are links to both the article and the podcast. https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/laura-jones-diary-reef/ https://www.dumbofeather.com/podcast/time-used-art-activism/
Laura Jones | A Diary of a Changing Reef
Dumbo Feather3 September 2017
Laura brings to life her experience of witnessing the Great Barrier Reef’s changing conditions, how she learnt to use her art as a form of activism and how she worked alongside science to interpret and bring attention to the problems that our planet is facing.
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GEORGE BYRNE | JONES MAGAZINE
Jones MagazineGeorgina Safe
August 2017
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MEET PAUL DAVIES | THE AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MAKING DREAMSCAPE ARTWORK YOU
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16 August 2017
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THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
14/8/2017
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JUZ KITSON | Finalist in the 2017 Wynne Prize
July 2017OLSEN gallery is pleased to announce Juz Kitson's That which provides safety and the possibility of growth, that which you can put your trust in, 2017 has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Wynne Prize.
Image: Juz Kitson, That which provides safety and the possibility of growth, that which you can put your trust in, 2017
"This installation is a heady mix of artefact and disturbing viscera, a kind of contemporary shamanism, playing with representations and perceptions of the human and animal condition." "The universal language here represents the outsider versus the insider, acceptance and isolation, connection and displacement ? a theme that is constant in the lives of people living in remote areas, though is ultimately united by the human condition." "The juxtaposition of inanimate materials is suggestive of the cycle of life. It also creates the sense that the work is alive, in an ironic way, as all living things decay." Juz Kitson, 2017 The Wynne Prize winner is to be announced on Friday July 28th 2017.
ALAN JONES | Finalist in the 2017 WYNNE Prize
July 26, 2017
Congratulations are in order for Alan Jones for his selection as a finalist in the 2017 Wynne Prize for his painting Painting 218 (The Domain), 2016.
"This landscape is a reflection of everyday life. It depicts a walk that I took to the Art Gallery of New South Wales with my son. It had just stopped raining and the sun was reflecting on the wet trees and pathway, creating a silvery light." "I enjoyed experimenting with collage to produce this work. It is one of the more abstract landscapes I have produced. It felt free from formal constraints. I worked quickly and intensely on each assembled piece. Applying thin acrylic washes to raw plywood added an element of unpredictability and immediacy, like working in a sketchpad."
Alan Jones, 2017
The Wynne Prize winner is to be announced on Friday July 28th 2017.
SOPHIE CAPE | Finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
July 2017
The gallery wishes congratulations to Sophie Cape, finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize for Awake, O Sleeper.
Image: Awake, O Sleeper, 2017 soil, bulldust, blood, charcoal, acrylic, oil, pastel, graphite, ink on canvas 169 x 213cm
The Ravenswood Australian Women?s Art Prize is an annual prize that was founded to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia. The winner will be announced at the exhibition opening on 4 August, 2017.
Life drawing with Archibald finalists is now an option
VOGUE LIVING AUSTRALIAFrancesca Wallace
23 June 2017
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First look: one of Australia's greatest sculptors Robert Klippel's work is showing in Sydney
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