Ken Whisson: Painting & Drawing
Whisson was born in Lilydale, Victoria in 1927 and died in 2022 in Sydney. Finding formal training uninspiring he enrolled in an experimental school at Koornong, Victoria in 1945. He came under the formative influence of the untrained Russian immigrant artist, Danila Vassilieff. Concurrently, Whisson met the older first generation of Melbourne modernists: Albert Tucker […]
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Go Figure: The Germanos Collection
Relationship. Joanna Braithwaite’s portrait of loved but departed Pepper, wearing a carrot, is in the “family portraits” section, with the recent Caroline Zilinsky Weimar Republic–referencing double portrait of Max and Gaibrielle Germanos and Huxley. The artist Euan Macleod has curated the Macquarie University Art Gallery’s current exhibition from the Germanos collection. Macleod has selected others […]
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Issue 10
Featuring Nike Savvas Ken Whisson Also Inside Tanya Chaitow Adrian Ghenie Graham Fransella Pieter Hugo Sally Gabori Philip Guston Fiona Hall Plus Essays, Reviews, News Sebastian Smee on Kandinsky Steve Lopes on Failure
