Heartlands and Headwaters: John Wolseley at the NGV
Jun 25th
John Wolseley is one of Australia's most extraordinary landscape artists, and if you're in Melbourne you can catch his landmark exhibition, Heartlands and Headwaters, at the National Gallery of Victoria until September 20, 2015. I interviewed Wolseley regarding Heartlands and Headwaters, and the transcript follows. First, a little background about the project from the NGV: For four years, artist John Wolseley ...
Marina Abramovic in Sydney for her Kaldor Public Art Project
Jun 24th
Marina Abramovic is in Sydney for the duration of her Kaldor Public Art Project, Marina Abramovic: In Residence. That means this city, until July 5, is playing host to one of the most famous artists in the world. When I met Abramovic at Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay on June 5 this year (2015), I found ...
Juz Kitson in the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize at the National Art School: “It’s not about the shock factor, and never has been”
Mar 30th
Juz Kitson was selected for the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, on now at the National Art School (until May 23, 2015). Kitson's work, titled Something Sacred, is a mad bouquet of strange, seemingly half-formed, animalistic objects. It is suspended from the ceiling and hangs clear of the floor, globular and vaguely confronting. Artist Sophie Cape ...
John Olsen in painterly conversation with Arthur Streeton at Mosman Art Gallery
Mar 20th
It was wonderful to see John Olsen, one of Australia's oldest living masters, on top of his form at the Mosman Art Gallery this week. Olsen had made the special trip from his Southern Highlands home to present his painting, titled The Rolling Sea and That Streeton Painting, 2014, as his gift to the gallery. Exactly why ...
No more squashed balaclavas: Will Coles is leaving Sydney
Mar 5th
Will Coles, one of Sydney's most dedicated art mavericks, is leaving town to live in Spain. All I can say is, "bugger". Coles is known to any of you who have ever stumbled across one of his strange and enigmatic concrete sculptures that are stuck down firmly on Sydney's streets. Squashed balaclavas and drink cans, TV remotes ...
