ESSAY I The Art of Gathering: Fowlers Gap and the Australian Artist Camp
No artist creates in isolation. Every painting carries traces of the conversations, places and histories that shaped it, preserving within its surface a particular moment of exchange. While the studio remains a site of making, artistic practice has long been nourished by movement beyond its walls—by journeys into the landscape, encounters with others and the […]
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Joe Furlonger Landscape
Landscape has been a dominant force in Australian art since colonial times, a place for myth and legend to play out, the supreme example being Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series, 1946-47, where human and landscape meld and morph into one mythic dreaming. Then there is Fred Williams who reinvented how to describe and see the […]
Fiona Somerville
Fiona Somerville was born in Adelaide, where nineteenth century European settlers built a stately colonial city on the fertile coastal plain, surrounding it with a formal ring of parks, the town plan emphasising the cool of the Torrens River. The city climbs up its surrounding hills; it seems every citizen is a gardener. But however […]
Peter Sharp @ Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
Peter Sharp travelled to Fowlers Gap, far west New South Wales, as one of the participating artists on our Not the Way Home expedition, which is being documented as a major feature in our next issue. The work produced by each artist will culminate in a major touring exhibition, which launches in May 2012 at […]
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