Dylan Sarra
As for so many, making art is a positive childhood memory for Taribelang and Gooreng Gooreng artist Dylan Sarra. Sarra was born in Bundaberg, central Queensland, went to school in Gladstone, and recalls “bouncing between those two places” during his early life. One morning at kindergarten he was invited by the teacher to create a […]
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Idris Murphy
In Australia there is an ongoing tradition of landscape painting that goes back for more than two centuries. There is also another tradition in Australian art that can be termed “painting country” that goes back millennia and is still thriving today. The Western European landscape tradition, that was imported to Australia, involves observing and recording […]
David Hayes
David Hayes will tell you himself that he is just a middle-aged white guy painting the human condition. That’s certainly not a throwaway line. He does deeply examine his own maleness and its entrapment in modern-day and historical conflict. The notion that we are always learning is an important principle to him. When I mention […]
Steve Lopes: Shapes For Gods
The exhibition title Shapes For Gods is taken from the painting of the same name. It is the pivotal work amongst a field of twenty-three figurative paintings, a print and a drawing. Shapes For Gods is Lopes’ fourth solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art and follows last year’s Encountered, a twenty-five-year survey (which this writer […]
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Matthew Cheyne
Matthew Cheyne has structured his life around family and home, both tethered to an art practice that is integral to who he is. Sustainability is environmental and his house and studio were designed and built by Cheyne and wife Caroline in recent years, overlooking its bush surrounds and sitting lightly on its small imprint of […]
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Bernard Ollis
Ollis creates – rather than replicates – visions of the working spaces of a number of significant Australian and European artists in these new works. We have the studios of Elisabeth Cummings and Guy Warren, and Ollis’ own Erskineville backyard complete with what would seem to be a Matisse mural. Further afield, we are drawn […]
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George Gittoes
George Gittoes’ ‘Augustus Suite’ is a contemporary reincarnation of his earlier ‘Hotel Kennedy Suite’ begun in 1969 at a San Francisco YMCA while the artist was ill with Hong Kong Flu. Its immediate prompt has been Covid, but the links go deeper. Febrile, hallucinogenic, half-awake, Gittoes describes catastrophic visions that emerged as if of their own […]
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Mirra Whale
Mirra Whale’s new paintings find polysemy in the weight of objects.
‘Kakadu’ – An artist’s perspective
An artists trip into remote Kakadu results in an exhibition filled with poignant encounters and quiet reflections.
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Tagged Euan Macleod, Franck Gohier, Mitchell Fine Art, Peter Hudson, Steve Lopes
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