Artist Interviews
Peter & James Powditch – ‘Australian Art Review’
TWO UP Peter and James Powditch Can two artists survive in the one family with sanity still intact? This issue AAR interviews Peter and James Powditch, two notable but distinctly different artists, who also happen to be father and son. Peter, who lives in Byron Bay on...
Shaun Gladwell – ‘the (Sydney) Magazine’, SMH
Watch This Face... SHAUN GLADWELL Sport and art, a little like oil and vinegar, don’t seem to mix; but for Shaun Gladwell most of his career has been spent pursuing both these passions. Gladwell comes from a family of “huge sportsheads”, which is probably what drove...
Wend Lear – ‘Australian Art Review’
Through A Lens Darkly Wend Lear now goes by the name of Cash Buck and is referred to as they/them. Wend Lear’s photographic essays of street life, whether here or overseas, are compassionate studies of the human condition. By Arts Writer, Victoria Hynes Tracking down...
Robyn Stacey – ‘Australian Art Review’
A Cultural Excavator ROBYN STACEY A large, full watermelon, shiny and ripe, is stabbed open with a nineteenth-century silver knife, as a dripping slice sits waiting to be consumed. A fecund display of fruit and flowers is draped across an antique table,...
Alistair Trung – ‘Australian Art Review’
The ‘Wabi Sabi' Couturier Australian designer Alistair Trung could be described as the Zen monk of the local fashion industry. His approach to art and clothing is more akin to that of a Buddhist ‘roshi’ than a fashionista. This philosophically minded artist/designer...
Joshua Yeldham – ‘Artist Profile’
Joshua Yeldham SydneY Art writer and editor, Victoria Hynes Joshua Yeldham interview by arts writer Victoria Hynes
Peter & Roy Churcher – ‘Australian Art Review’
TWO UP Peter and Roy Churcher Working in diametrically opposite styles, father and son Roy and Peter Churcher nevertheless share a lifelong passion for painting. Peter Churcher grew up in art ‘royalty’. His mother Betty is the former director of the National Gallery...
Lyndell Brown & Charles Green – ‘Australian Art Review’
TWO UP Lyndell Brown and Charles Green Lyndell Brown (44) and Charles Green (52) are Melbourne based photo artists and painters. Partners in life, they also work as a collaborative artist team, having held 21 solo exhibitions since 1989. Their haunting and dreamlike...