George Byrne's Post Truth
Monster ChildrenErin Bromhead
February 4, 2019
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Jacqui Stockdale at Artbar
February 2019On Friday 1st of Feburary Jacqui Stockdale was a guest artist at the MCA Art Bar.
Lara Merrett had curated a vibrant, artist-driven evening of art, music and performance.
The evening was called Things We Do Together - "all about community and coming together with your fellow neighbour. Grab the opportunity to be a part of a performance - collect a lock or key at the door and find your other half throughout the night."
Jacqui Stockdale cut silhouettes freehand with scissors, in the traditional portrait style that was very popular before photography was invented. The audience was enticed to sit for 10 minutes to have their profile rendered out of a piece of black paper. Each portrait will be added to the collection of heads and displayed in the pop-up studio as part of the performance.
UNSW alumni Olsen and Ormandy stepping forward as the artists they are
UNSW, Art & Design9 January 2019
Louise Olsen recalls drawing with lipsticks during one of her first art classes as a young child.
Her parents, award-winning painter John Olsen and artist Valerie Strong, ran The Bakery Art School in Paddington, and Louise remembers attending the “quite exuberant” life drawing classes.
“I remember in one class, my dad said, ‘Look at this kid’s drawing’ and I was feeling so proud of myself because there were all of these big students, all drawing around me,” the UNSW alumna and Dinosaur Designs co-creator says.
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Olsen Ormandy: a creative force
Michael Fitzgerald
Summer 2018-19
The oozing amoebic forms, fashioned from resin, that have become signature pieces from Sydney's Dinosaur Designs since the mid-1980s, always seemed to signal a desire to transform into something else. As have their City Art Institute-trained creators, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, who established the iconic brand with Liane Rossler in 1985. Now the pair's lesser-known artistic oeuvre, drawn from a shared 30-year studio practice and on display at the Newscastle Art Gallery until 17 February 2019, reveals a modernith aesthetic as seemingly simple and slippery as those early resin forms, moving from intimate and ethereal studies in watercolour and oil (Olsen) to tumescent totemic sculpture and three-dimensional collage (Ormandy).
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En VOGUE Calandario
Vogue Spain2018
Louise Olsen features in VOGUE spain, to discuss her current exhibition 'OLSEN ORMANDY: a creative force' in collaboration with Stephan Ormandy at The Newcastle Art Gallery.
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Art in Force
GraziaNicholas Carolan
2018
"Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy, two artists behind Dinosaur Designs whose three-decade creative partnership is the subject of a new exhibition, dissect each other's practice."
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2018 Art Basel Guide To The Best Events You Won't Easily Find
The Aspiring GentlemanAndrew Nackton
December 3, 2018
Miami’s 2018 Art Basel festival is upon us this starting this week which just so happens to be where we live. That makes us self-proclaimed “Art Basel Experts” and now it’s time to listen up. We’re not going to send you to anything not worthy of an ‘Aspiring Gentleman’. Take notes and fill up you 2018 Art Basel schedule wisely.
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Margaret Quilter
Issue 22 | 2018
Sophie Cape’s unusual path to life as an artist is also her biggest asset.
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Michelle Cawthorn selected as finalist for inaugural Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award
November 2018Congratulations to Michelle Cawthorn for being selected as a finalist for the 2018 inaugural Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in Victoria.
Held every three years, the inaugural $30,000 Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award has been established to showcase Australian artists who work in the medium of watercolour. It is an acquisitive award enabled by the Fornari Bequest, by the Will of the late Lena May Fornari, and is a legacy of her support of the arts in Victoria. Lena May was an ardent collector of watercolours and the first acquisitions through this Bequest were significant watercolour paintings. Continuing this tradition, Splash presents the work of contemporary Australian artists who use this medium in highly accomplished and innovative ways:
The Award will be judged by Linda Michael, independent curator and editor, with one highly commended work judged by Samantha Comte, Curator, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
1 December 2018 to 17 March 2019
Congratulations to Michelle Cawthorn for her selection as a finalist in Fischer Ghost Award
November 25, 2018Congratulations to Michelle Cawthorn for being selected as a finalist for the 2018 Fischer Ghost Award. The Fisher's Ghost Art Award is now in its 55th year and has over $30,000 in prize money. The Award coincides with Campbelltown's annual Festival of Fisher's Ghost.
Featured work: The Bubbler - Jackpot 2018 pen, watercolour, graphite, white gouache, iquid graphite, Indian ink and acrylic on Hahnem?hle paper 158 x 216 cm
Congratulations to Michelle Cawthorn for her selection as a Bundanon Artist-in-Residence
November 2018Congratulations to Michelle Cawthorn for being selected as a 2019 Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence. The Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence program is open to professional artists and thinkers from all disciplines, individually or in groups. The residency is hosted in a purpose-built studio in Shoalhaven River on the south coast of New South Wales. Each year around 350 artists are chosen for the Residency program.
Sophie Cape at OLSEN Gallery opening
November 2018Sophie Cape at the opening of her latest exhibition Maelstrom, November 2018 Part 1 of 2
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Laura Jones in conversation with Anne Ryan, AGNSW
November 2018Laura Jones in conversation with Anne Ryan, Curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Speaking at her exhibition of Works on Paper at OLSEN Gallery Annexe, November 2018 Part 1 of 2.
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The logic of beauty - The art of Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
Exhibition catalogue from Newcastle Art GalleryEssay by Dr Andrew Frost
November 2018
Our paths first crossed at art school in the early 1980s. As I was beginning my final undergraduate year at what was then City Art Institute [now UNSW Art & Design] Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy arrived in first year and seemed to be, even then, fully formed identities. Louise was of course a part of the Olsen family, well known bunyip art royalty, and Stephen, perhaps not so well known, but with the look and apparent confidence of a mid-80s rock star.
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Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
The Brooklyn RailJonathan Goodman
November 19, 2018
In these two shows gallery visitors have the opportunity to view two very different, but very gifted artists. Rhys Lee is an Australian artist in his early forties; this show examples a series of paintings based on a 1970s New York City subway cartoon, made by graffiti artist Mitch 77, of an orange Pluto (the cartoon dog) wearing white gloves and a blue bowtie. Kevin Bourgeois is a New York-based, musically oriented artist whose work here consists of record jackets assembled with pieces taken from different covers.
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A Good Boy and a Wall of Sound at Olsen Gruin Gallery
Quiet LunchKurt McVey
November 14, 2018
There isn’t much time left to catch one of the best two-person shows on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, or more accurately, two unique, but not so disparate exhibitions; Kevin Bourgeois’ Wall of Sound and Rhys Lee’s Good Boy, both seamlessly coexisting inside Olsen Gruin Gallery and coming down Sunday, November 18th.
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Nganampa Ngura Kurunjara opening
31 October 2018NGANAMPA NGURA KURUNJARA - THE PLACE OF OUR SPIRIT exhibition opening video featuring indigenous dance routine. Exhibited from 31 October 2018 - 18 November 2018. Featuring George Tjangili, Wawiriya Burton, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, Ngupulya Pumani, Manyitjanu Lennon, George Witjiti, Ken Sister's Collaborative, Mitakiki Woman's Collaborative, The Watarru Collaborative, Alec Baker, Maringka Baker, Pepai Jangala Carroll, Matjangka Norris, Betty Muffelr, Imitjala Curley, Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Mick Wikilyiri, Barbara Moore, Yaritji Young, Taylor Cooper and Michelle Lewis.
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Noah Taylor - Fascination - installation video
26 October 2018Video footage of the OLSEN Annexe Noah Taylor exhibition, from 26
October to 15 November 2018. Features Noah working on the artworks,
exhibition installation. OLSEN Annexe, 74 Queen Street Woollahra NSW
2025.
Noah Taylor (born London, 1969) has worked in a variety of mediums,
including performance in film and music as well as visual arts, since
the early 1980s. Politically and artistically he is aligned with both
the stuckist and neo-situationist movement, if in sentiment only. Taylor
currently divides his time between Brighton, England and New Orleans,
USA.
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"Wall of Sound" by Kevin Bourgeois at Olsen Gruin, New York
BLOUIN ARTINFOOctober 24, 2018
Self-taught artist Kevin Bourgeois' solo exhibition, "Wall of Sound" features a curated selection of conceptual record jacket collages that present visuals inspired by Phil Spector's philosophies on sound mixing.
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'Rhys Lee: Good Boy' at Olsen Gruin, New York
BLOUIN ARTINFOOctober 24, 2018
Melbourne-based painter Rhys Lee comes from a background of street art. His latest, vibrant oil paintings featuring abstracted graffiti-inspired figures in sumptuous "gelato colors" grace the walls of Olsen Gruin in the current solo exhibition, "Good Boy," on view through November 18.
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