Noel McKenna: a dive into the archives as the artist’s new show starts
Jul 24th
Having noticed that the wonderful Noel McKenna is having a new exhibition (The night is doubtful, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 25 July to 22 August, 2020), I thought I would dig into my archive and pull out my 2016 interview with Noel about the exhibition he was about to have back then. In that show, Noel ...
Memories of Ria Murch
Apr 12th
Easter Sunday, 2020, during coronavirus lockdown. It’s the perfect day to have driven north to visit Ria Murch at Avalon Beach. A crystalline Autumn morning, with Summer not letting go and the leaves on my plane tree clinging on, still green and luscious. Every inch of the road to Ria’s place carries me back not only to her, ...
Guy Warren: a visit to the great Australian artist’s studio
Apr 9th
On March 7, 2016, I was fortunate to visit Guy Warren at his longtime studio in Sydney's inner suburban Leichhardt. The purpose for my visit was the story I was writing for the Daily Telegraph about Guy's upcoming exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery, titled Genesis of a Painter: Guy Warren at 95. Here's an edited transcript ...
Visiting Sydney Ball’s bushland retreat
Jan 1st
News that the late colour abstractionist Sydney Ball was to be represented in this year's Sydney Biennale set me thinking about a boiling hot day in November, 2014, when I drove to Glenorie, a rural area 40km northwest of Sydney, to interview the grand old man of art. The interview was to be about Infinex III, Ball's new show ...
