Fiona Hall talks to ArtWriter about her Artist Award
Sep 21st
Fiona Hall is an endlessly inventive Australian contemporary artist whose chief inspiration is the natural world and humankind's impact upon it. Hall was honoured on September 15, 2011, with a gala dinner at the Art Gallery of NSW where she received an award "in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the visual arts through a ...
Callan Park Gallery in Sydney’s Inner West, home to Outsider Art
Jun 19th
Artwriter was happy to write a catalogue essay for a recent exhibition of Outsider Art at the Callan Park Gallery in the grounds of the Sydney College of the Arts. SCA, of course, is part of Sydney University and its Dean is Colin Rhodes, a specialist in the field of Outsider Art and the author ...
What would Monet have said? “C’est belle, Catherine!”
Jun 8th
Catherine Nelson's photographs in her latest exhibition titled Future Memories at Dominik Mersch Gallery (until July 2, 2011) can only be described as visually enchanting. The photographs, like Monet's Garden, shown at left, are a bit like looking up at the sky through the oculus in a 16th Century cathedral. They remind me of the illustrations done by ...
Ballerinas and helicopters: Shaun Gladwell talks about his new ACMI exhibition
Jun 4th
In March, 2011, I interviewed Shaun Gladwell for The Art Newspaper. The interview took place by telephone between me in Sydney and Shaun in London, where he had recently set up a new home and studio, having moved there from Australia. I rang Shaun to speak to him about the move to the UK, and also ...
Stop Press: New appointments at the Art Gallery of NSW
May 25th
Wayne Tunnicliffe has just been announced as the new head curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, replacing Barry Pearce who retired in February and who is now located at the Brett Whiteley Studio. Wayne was previously curator of contemporary Australian art at the gallery. The gallery also announced the appointment of Kirsten ...
