An Interview with Michael Johnson
Internationally recognised abstract painter talks to Tim Olsen about the inspiration and the unique language employed in his recent work. Includes archival footage of Johnson experimenting with pigments in the landscape and rare glimpses into his Sydney studio.
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Michael Johnson New Paintings 2009
Sunday with Andrew Taylor
US based Australian artist Andrew Taylor talks to Chanel Nine's 'Sunday' program about his exhibition 'Inside/ Outside', his first show with the Tim Olsen Gallery in 2007. Esteemed curator Nick Waterlow and gallery owner Tim Olsen discuss the Eastern sensibility inherent in his painting. Taylor also explains his motivation to evoke stillness in his artmaking in a rapidly moving world where digital images flood our vision.
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Andrew Tayor Inside/Outside
Tim Olsen at Coco Republic on Collecting Art
Tim Olsen talks in Coco Republic's popular lecture series on collecting art. Olsen provides some great insights into forming a collection, what to look for and some traps to avoid.
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Arts Sunday with Guy Maestri
2009 Archibald Prize winner, Guy Maestri talk to ABC1 Sunday Arts. An intimate discussion of his work and process from within his studio. Examines his early aspirations, the Archibald win, and the direction his work is taking. Includes interviews the artist's father and fellow studio artist, Celia Gullett.
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Guy Maestri Google Earth 2009
Art Nation, featuring John Olsen and the exhibition Culinaria with Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein
This Art Nation episode features John Olsen and the exhibition Culinaria with Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein. John Olsen discusses his theories on painting food, as his memories of travel and cooking melt together to celebrate food, art and good company. Rick Stein comments on the exhibition, whilst Jamie Oliver get's involved with cooking up a feast for a delighted artistic audience.
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John Olsen Culinaria - The Cuisine of the Sun
Tim Olsen on John Olsen 'Culinaria'
We are blessed with the deliciously tasty Culinaria - The Cuisine of the Sun. An explosive feast that celebrates life and the human experience. Tim Olsen reflects on John Olsen's latest exhibition.
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John Olsen Culinaria - The Cuisine of the Sun
John Olsen relives love of Lake Eyre, ABC 7.30 Report
John Olsen, Australia's greatest living painter talks to the ABC 7.30 report about his latest body of work Lake Eyre - The Desert Sea, Ruminations on a Empty Landscape. This latest collection of watercolours, a very personal reflection of an ever-changing landscape that Olsen has visited since the 1970's, depicts the results of the recent flooding to the area and the new life that follows. This episode features interviews John Olsen, his gallerist-son Tim Olsen, grandson James and two young artists Luke Sciberras and Guy Maestri fly across the Lake as well as an interview by Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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JOHN OLSEN: Lake Eyre Ruminations on an Empty Landscape
Janet Hawley
10/11/12
John Olsen, our greatest living artist on squeezing the juice from his final years.
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Kate 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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Ashleigh 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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Nicholas 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
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Prue 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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1/11/11
Sydney gallerist Tim Olsen claims a Victorian link by recalling his childhood at the Dunmoochin artist's
colony, when the likes of Fred Williams, John Brack and Albert Tucker would come to dine with his father, the artist John Olsen.
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1/11/11
Surreal films, fine antiquities, 3D video installations and melancholy photography will broaden your mind over the coming months
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John McDonald
22/10/11
The act of putting paint on canvas creates fascinating tensions between the cerebral, the sensual and the suggestive.
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13/10/11
Paul Davies: Tim Olsen pop-up gallery. A Sydney artist and quintessentially Sydney gallerist in Melbourne?
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Louise Schwartzkoff
Monday, October 10, 2011
By the time Felicity Smith and Paul Lowe decided to get married, they owned a house in Darlinghurst and had enough kitchenware and manchester to last them decades. Rather than risk an avalanche of salad bowls and steak knives on their wedding day next month, the couple have asked guests to contribute towards at $12,000 abstract painting.
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Brooke Turner
22/9/11
It’s enormous, two metres by seven metres, and by far the most expensive piece in the show at $70,000, even without the purpose-built $20,000- plus gilt frame. In fact, the only mystery about James McGrath’s monumental Ex-Libris, the central work in his new show opening at the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney today, is who has a wall big enough to hang it.
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Sasha 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.
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Steve Meacham
20/8/11
Is landscape painter Luke Sciberras the next John Olsen?
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