Press and Editorial ~ Exhibitions Articles
RALWURRANDJI WANAMBI
20 April 2012Bill Gregory
Ralwurrandji Wanambi (born 1959, began exhibiting 1999) worked for many years at the Yirrkala art centre Buku-Larrnggay during the 1980's and early 90's. ... read more
Ralwurrandji Wanambi (born 1959, began exhibiting 1999) worked for many years at the Yirrkala art centre Buku-Larrnggay during the 1980's and early 90's. ... read more
Pablo Picasso
12 October 2011Bill Gregory
"A virtuoso in every technical process, he elicits from his material the very subtlest effects it is capable of yielding. It is therefore hardly surprising that he puts his trust in unceasing experiment and that five, ten or even thirty states are sometimes necessary before a masterpiece emerges from this severest of self-critics". Georges Bloch, editor catalogue raisonne of Picasso Graphic work ... read more
"A virtuoso in every technical process, he elicits from his material the very subtlest effects it is capable of yielding. It is therefore hardly surprising that he puts his trust in unceasing experiment and that five, ten or even thirty states are sometimes necessary before a masterpiece emerges from this severest of self-critics". Georges Bloch, editor catalogue raisonne of Picasso Graphic work ... read more
MURRAY FREDERICKS - Hector
12 October 2011Bill Gregory
In Late 2010, Murray Fredericks made an initial visit to Melville Island situated in the Arafura sea North of the Australian mainland. During the 'build-up' season, prior to the monsoon, a huge storm event known as 'Hector' occurs almost daily over the Tiwi Islands. ... read more
In Late 2010, Murray Fredericks made an initial visit to Melville Island situated in the Arafura sea North of the Australian mainland. During the 'build-up' season, prior to the monsoon, a huge storm event known as 'Hector' occurs almost daily over the Tiwi Islands. ... read more
The Attraction of Opposites
12 May 2007John McDonald
NOTHING MIGHT SEEM easier than for an artist to paint every picture in black on a stark white canvas. For British painter John Virtue (b. 1947), this has been his method for some 20 years. It has also been the method of many generations of Zen brush and ink painters and of abstract expressionists such as Franz Kline and Pierre Soulages. But Virtue, despite the abstract dimension in his work, remains a landscape painter. ... read more
NOTHING MIGHT SEEM easier than for an artist to paint every picture in black on a stark white canvas. For British painter John Virtue (b. 1947), this has been his method for some 20 years. It has also been the method of many generations of Zen brush and ink painters and of abstract expressionists such as Franz Kline and Pierre Soulages. But Virtue, despite the abstract dimension in his work, remains a landscape painter. ... read more
Aboriginal Barks
20 August 2006Bill Gregory, Annandale Galleries
BARKS for painting are taken from species of Eucalyptus tree and are cut and peeled from the tree during the wet season when they are supple enough to remove. The barks are then treated over fire to flatten and are primed with a light ochre... ... read more
BARKS for painting are taken from species of Eucalyptus tree and are cut and peeled from the tree during the wet season when they are supple enough to remove. The barks are then treated over fire to flatten and are primed with a light ochre... ... read more
A heroic journey into abstraction
July 29, 2005Sebastian Smee
In John Updike's 2002 novel, Seek My Face, the main character, a painter loosely based on Jackson Pollock's wife, Lee Kasner, tells a young interviewer: "Someone of your generation probably can't believe how crucial, how important, how huge painting seemed then."
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In John Updike's 2002 novel, Seek My Face, the main character, a painter loosely based on Jackson Pollock's wife, Lee Kasner, tells a young interviewer: "Someone of your generation probably can't believe how crucial, how important, how huge painting seemed then."
... read more
Custodian of the Fire
21-22 May, 2005Miriam Cosic
Djambawa Marawili strides across many landscapes. A key figure in contemporary Yolngu art, he is the senior lawman of the Madarrpa clan, 130 people who live at Yilpara on Blue Mud Bay ... read more
Djambawa Marawili strides across many landscapes. A key figure in contemporary Yolngu art, he is the senior lawman of the Madarrpa clan, 130 people who live at Yilpara on Blue Mud Bay ... read more
How sacred, secret and transitory became permanent and public
4 March 2005Angela Bennie
Aboriginal artists have made a bold leap away from tradition ... read more