Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
Exhibition Dates 29 July - 21 August 2010 Opening Thursday 29 July 6-8 pm
Ingo has sometimes been unjustly marginalized by the shadow of other artists who also worked with found materials, such as Rosalie Gascoigne, with whom he had been friends since the 1970s. The Australian art world, in my ob ...
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The collision of urban and natural themes first struck me in Tokyo in the summer of 1992 where I was making a visual record of the built environment. I became entranced by Japanese textile design and pattern which are based on n t
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After receiving the 2008 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, artist William Mackinnon spent three months driving from the cosmopolitan city of Melbourne to the remote Fitzroy Crossing of the Kimberley region, in northern Australia. He spent two months in residency at Mangkaja Arts in Fitzroy Cro ...
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Exhibition dates: 20 May - 19 June 2010 Opening: Thursday, 20 May 6 - 8pm
Holy Mountain, Peter Daverington’s second solo exhibition of paintings in Sydney explores the cultural shift in perception of our natural landscape from the 19th century Romantic point of view to the resource hungry era of 2 ...
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Over the past few years I’ve been interested in painting environmental scenarios that focus on unusual or alternative dwellings such as mobile homes, caravans, tents, cabins and tree houses. These kinds of informal, mobile or temporary dwellings are for me potent metaphors for many of the existentia ...
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With his parade of personae, Gavin Hurley jumps into the ring with that prim convention of Victorian society, the official portrait, all dressed up, buttoned up and respectacle. But, in a purposeful counterpoint to the pomp, he applies the down-to-earthiness of folk art and the earnest craft of the ...
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Many Australians will be familiar with Pauls work through the annual Archibald Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has been a finalist on many occasions and was awarded the Peopl’s Choice award three times. In 2009 his portrait of the comedian Paul Livingston (aka Flacco) ...
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This painting upholds my contention that an artists subject is always more important than the artist, hence the title and my placement of self sitting upon the shoulder of the tohunga. This simulacrum of a tohunga is an amalgam of many previous paintings that have characterized a large portion of my ...
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Architecture 10 is an exhibition featuring the international guests who have come to sydney since 2006 to lead the Urban Islands workshops, along with the local Urban Islands team.
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