Jonathan Jones, Vincent Fantauzzo, Nick Stathopoulos and Justine Muller
Sep 13th
It's been quite a big week for this visual arts writer in Sydney. Here's how I saw it unfold: On Tuesday morning I dropped into the NG Art Gallery in Chippendale to speak to Fiona White, whose exhibition titled Misfits I was to open the following night. http://www.ngart.com.au/artists_white.html Fiona moved to Killcare on the Central Coast about ...
Archibald Prize 2014: Fiona Lowry captures Penelope Seidler lost in thoughts of her home with Harry
Aug 25th
It's Friday July 18, 2014, the day the portrait of Penelope Seidler wins the Archibald Prize for Bondi artist Fiona Lowry. Even before the noon media announcement by Art Gallery of NSW head of trustees, Guido Belgiorno-Nettis, we all know who's won. At least, we think we do. Penelope Seidler, widow of the towering Sydney architect, the late Harry ...
Erika Diettes: images of suffering go on view in Head On Photo Festival
May 16th
Erika Diettes' photographic portraits of Colombian women are printed on lengths of fine silk. Numbering about 20, the portraits are delicately suspended from the ceiling of St Canice's church in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, as part of the Head On Photo Festival. The peaceful interior of St Canice's is a perfect setting for these extraordinary images of real-life suffering, ...
Bill Brown: Sydney artist talks to Artwriter before his retrospective exhibition at S. H. Ervin Gallery
Apr 27th
Bill Brown is a fascinating character and a great artist from the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Brown's retrospective exhibition, Bill Brown: Wanderlust, is running until June 1 at the S. H. Ervin Gallery at Observatory Hill, The Rocks. The first time I heard about Bill Brown was when I interviewed Lucy Culliton many years ago, ...
Letter from George Gittoes: “thoughts on a haunted Afghanistan”
Mar 3rd
It's not easy to describe George Gittoes. Film maker. Painter. Performance artist. Keeper of illustrated diaries. So far so good. Independent war artist and eye on the world in conflict. Yes, all that too. Restless mind, inquiring nature, fearless pursuit of truth. Definitely all of that. And yet you have to know Gittoes for a long time before the ...
