Cherry Hood
Andrew Taylor
12/09/2010
It has taken Cherry Hood six years to overcome her fear of the landscape at her farm near Goulburn. “It’s been a difficult thing,” she said. “We have this big black range of hills near us and they’re quite spooky and we’re surrounded by these white trees that are quite eerie.” Years of drought had taken a toll, but Hood said rains had brought life to the district’s parched farms: “Its very green and lush.
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Katrina Strickland
26/08/2010
A deputy director at the National Portrait Gallery, Louise Doyle, is expected to be announced as its new director today. The news comes as the Canberra based institution acquires Cherry Hood’s 2002 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of pianist Simon Tedeschi, which Sydney gallery owner Tim Olsen donated to it.
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Janet Hawley
21 - 23 March 2008
She's an enormously successful Archibald Prize winner, but Cherry Hood's portraits of beguilingly beautiful boys continue to cause contoversy. Janet Hawley learns why she can't stop painting them.
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