REVIEW | Ken Done: Done Right
The exhibition opens with paintings that place Done in conversation with some of the great names of art history. He has always been something of an iconoclast, a painter unafraid of drawing inspiration from others while insisting on his own distinct voice. One of the early highlights, Starry, starry, starry night, 1998, is an emphatic […]
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William Robinson: Lyrical Landscapes
You couldn’t practise full-time as an artist until you were 53. Would it have changed your practice to have more time to paint earlier? Shirley and I have been married 59 years this year and we had six children – so that was not an option. I believe an artist has to get a life […]
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HOTA Than Hell
Surfers Paradise: an amalgam of Florida, Las Vegas and Disneyland, it’s Australia’s playground for everybody, a sunny retirement destination for the well-heeled from southern states, and a surfing mecca that’s produced five world champions. Sin also appears to be popular here. From between the high-rise monoliths, sand, and kitsch tourist tack oozes surf, sun and […]
HOTA: Home of the Arts
HOTA Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, ‘Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise,’ and its first public opening, take place this week in Surfers Paradise. Two significant public art commissions in the gallery’s grounds mark these events in Queensland – and, indeed, in broader Australian – art. Judy Watson, a Waanyi artist, responds to the site on which HOTA […]
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