Review: Son of the Brush
Queensland Reviewers CollectiveIan Lipke
5 November 2020
Inspiration guided the person who coined the title of this memoir. Son of the Brush allows the writer to give the reading public information about the writer’s famous father – his virtues and vices, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses while making available information about himself, one of the recognized business leaders in Sydney. The Brush is John Olsen, the son is gallery owner Tim.
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Chris Langlois | Littoral Zone
Artist ProfileEmma-Kate Wilson
November 2020
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VIDEO TOUR OF GILES ALEXANDER EXHIBITION
October 2020View video tour of the Giles Alexander 2020 exhibition
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Portrait of the piss artist as a young man
The SpectatorRoss Fitzgerald
19 October 2020
Being the son of the revered John Olsen has often been intriguing, and sometimes difficult.
Olsen, 92, is arguably Australia’s greatest living artist, and is still painting. His son, Tim, 58, the author of this fine memoir, runs one of Australia’s leading art galleries in Woollahra, Sydney.
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Paul Davies | Paradise with a Twist
Australian Financial ReviewStephen Todd
07/10/20
Paradise with a twist; 'Failed painter' Paul Davies creates artworks of uncanny architectural allure
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Jacqui Stockdale | Finalist in the National works on paper prize
MPRG2020
Jacqui Stockdale's work The Borning Son, 2020 is a finalist in the National works on paper prize at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
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October 2020Video tour of the Nicholas Harding exhibition, From the Wings, showing at OLSEN Gallery September - 10 October 2020
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September 2020View video tour of the Fred Williams Guthega exhibition at OLSEN Gallery, Sydney 16 September - 10 October
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Beyond the sexy blockbuster lies the truth
The AustralianChristopher Allen
4.9.2020
Contemporary art needs more work like this: eloquent but not reducible to convenient and approved formulas.
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Art at work: Melinda Harper
Castlemaine Art MuseumJune 2020
From exuberant and optical through to pensive and moody, Castlemaine based artist Melinda Harper’s abstraction is endlessly absorbing and uplifting. Inspired by her lived experience of the visual world, Harper’s small precise paintings, watercolours and embroideries are equally influenced by early 20th-century abstraction and mid-century modernists. We are delighted to say CAM is currently working with Melinda towards an exhibition at CAM in the not too distant future. Harper shares with us something of her working life in this email interview.
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Maroon 5’s Jesse Carmichael Keeps it Short and Sweet with Two-Minute Movies
KCETJuly 2020
Participants can do as they like, but it can’t run longer than two minutes; that’s the idea behind 2 Minute Movies (2mm), a collective of filmmakers and artists founded in early 2019 by Maroon 5’s Jesse Carmichael. “The biggest takeaway from this period of isolation is just how important it is to have friends and family around to make things in life with; memories and art,” he tells “Southland Sessions.” Despite starting before the pandemic, the collective’s more recent videos reflect intimate portraits of the current moment.
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VIDEO Nicholas Harding Landscape & Birds
August 2020Video of the latest exhibition of works by Nicholas Harding showing from 19 August - 12 September 2020
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VIRTUAL TOUR
August 2020View the virtual tour of the Nicolas Harding 'Landscape and Bird' exhibition
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Art Talks: Paul Davies and Kate Bryan
Soho HouseJuly, 2020
Join Head of Collections, Kate Bryan, as she talks to LA-based Australian artist, Paul Davies, about the painting he created for Soho Warehouse, now the largest work in the Soho House global collection.
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Virtual tour of Philjames exhibition
July 2020Explore the PHILJAMES 2020 exhibition at OLSEN Gallery, Woollahra showing from 22 July - 15 August
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Home comforts Artists find solace in the everyday
Look MagazineJuly 2017
For this issue, Look asked three regional New South Wales artists – John Bokor, Zoe Young and Kiata Mason – to create new works inspired by Henri Matisse’s concept of an art of ‘calme’ – art which translates an atmosphere of joy and peace. We asked the artists, known for their depictions of interiors, to explore the things which bring them comfort, solace and calm during our current times of uncertainty.
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Together in art
Look OnlineMay 2020
When the world retreated indoors, the art world went online, with screens suddenly transformed from museum support act to main event. While restrictions have begun to ease, digital encounters remain a valuable point of contact and engagement. This guide to some of our favourite online connections ranges from the Gallery’s own Together In Art project to a virtual writers’ festival. We’ve also asked artists how they’d like to see things change when we come out the other side. ‘My hope is that technology will continue to break down barriers between audiences and the art world,’ artist Kim Leutwyler says. We couldn’t agree more.
The former Sulman and Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship finalist brings his loony toons mashups of the sacrosanct and slapstick to Olsen Gallery, 22 July–15 August.
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You Me & Covid-19: Michelle Cawthorn and Peter Sharp
Art CollectorMay 2019
The You, Me & COVID-19 series sees the region’s artists interviewed by the partners they’re sharing #iso with. Watch artists and partners Michelle Cawthorn and Peter Sharp in conversation from their home in the Sutherland Shire.
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2 Minute Movies Bridges Music and Filmmaking
Art & ObjectJordan Riefe
June, 2020
A new collaboration between Maroon 5’s Jesse Carmichael and artist Paul Davies connects visual art, music, and filmmaking.
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NGANAMPA TJUKURPA PULKATJARA VIRTUAL TOUR
May 2020View virtual tour of the exhibition MANTA NGANAMPA TJUKURPA PULKATJARA- STORIES FROM OUR LAND
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