by Victoria Hynes | Nov 26, 2020 | All Articles, Artist Interviews, Artists, Australian Art Collector, Fine Art, Publications, Richard Lewer
New Directions RICHARD LEWER 2016 has been a bumper year for Melbourne artist Richard Lewer. Not only was he awarded the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize (for The Theatre of Sports, his heartwrenching portraits of a dozen national sporting ‘failures’), but...
by Victoria Hynes | Jul 10, 2017 | All Articles, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, Artist Profiles, Artists, Australian Art Collector, Fine Art, Publications
WHAT NEXT: ARIN DWIHARTANTO SUNARYO Why pay attention? Since completing his MFA at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, Sunaryo’s eye-popping abstract paintings have swiftly attracted commercial interest and critical attention in the US, Europe...
by Victoria Hynes | Jun 2, 2017 | All Articles, Artists, Asian Art News, Brett McMahon, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, Publications
New Directions BRETT MCMAHON For artist Brett McMahon, returning to the natural and industrial environs of his childhood home of Newcastle, two hours north of Sydney, has generated a fertile period of creative output. A regular in Sydney’s contemporary art scene...
by Victoria Hynes | Nov 26, 2016 | All Articles, Artists, Australian Art Collector, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, George Gittoes, Publications
Heart Of Darkness GEORGE GITTOES Taking in George Gittoes touring survey exhibition ‘I Witness’, provokes a visceral response, like being given a swift kick in the guts. The images are the stuff of nightmares, describing in paint, drawings, prints and on film,...
by Victoria Hynes | Oct 24, 2012 | All Articles, Australian Art Review, Claire Healy, Exhibition Reviews, Fine Art, Sean Cordeiro
Excess Baggage For more than a decade, collaborating Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have led a nomadic life, carving out bases in Sydney and Berlin, whilst criss-crossing the globe with residencies and a string of shows throughout Europe, Asia and...