ESSAY I Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Two years ago, Macleod returned to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be with his mother during the final phase of her life. At Sumner Beach, they revisited the familiar rock formation known as Tuawera or Cave Rock, a hulking, volcanically formed volume opening onto an interior space that changes with the tides. To […]
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REVIEW | Pulse: Christopher Hodges
Pulse, the title of his current exhibition at Utopia Art Sydney, alludes to the rhythmic equilibrium of parts that has long characterised his work. As a painter Hodges strives for simplicity and order, alternating between geometric and natural motifs; as a sculptor he realises a similar range of forms in solid materials that stand their […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit and Matisse Alive
Without his touch, Matisse would not exist for us. We can recognise his work by its radical composition, the lyricism of its colour and the utter clarity of the artist’s final phase, but before these qualities could blossom there was an initial impulse, born of the liberated touch of the late nineteenth century. The freedom to […]
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Matisse: Life & Spirit
Was there a more prolific maker of unforgettable images than Matisse, at least in the twentieth century? The number of exceptional works he created, in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and his own medium of the paper cut-out, is astounding. He coaxed a wealth of aesthetic qualities from his materials and evolved a huge inventory of […]
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Joe Frost
Joe Frost gives his paintings a kind of autonomy; they want to be or become things that are partially obscure to him.
