Ann Thomson
Ann Thomson celebrated her ninetieth birthday in October 2023. Born in Queensland in 1933, the daughter of a prominent Brisbane bookseller, she was genteelly brought up but was given plenty of leeway to express her natural physical exuberance. At her school, Somerville House, all of her art teachers (Caroline Barker, Patricia Prentice, June Meek, Betty […]
Peter Godwin: Space, Light and Time
Dark and alive with momentum and verve, there is something extraordinarily immediate in Godwin’s play across the picture plane. Channelling the eighteenth century master of the still life, Jean Siméon Chardin, with tightly stepped horizontals that give incremental and fine depth, the foreground is abundantly realised as a world of amassed objects, furniture, clutter, art, […]
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Euan Macleod: Flux
Accompanied by artist and Orange’s director Brad Hammond, and photographer Craig Potton, he helicoptered onto the mountain ranges. It was his second trip with Potton and a guide, where they spent days documenting and climbing in the area. Growing up in New Zealand, Macleod was attracted to the adrenaline rush of climbing from the age […]
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John R Walker
This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney, the gallery that has represented Walker since it opened in 1988. Born and raised in Sydney, Walker has always preferred being in the bush to city dwelling. For […]
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David Serisier: Here and There
What has happened in Serisier’s work, with forty+ years of skilful experience under his belt, is that the object/subject divide has diminished. A compelling and weird effect has occurred over time ̶ there is less subjectivity to the paintings ̶ by this, I mean less spectacle and less personality, but more of the seen/sensed and […]
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Suzanne Archer
Occupying the North Gallery of the newly expanded Orange Regional Gallery, Archer’s work is both monumental and domestic, and though the size of her work is large, there is a compatibility of scale that comfortably locates the work within the space. Moreover, the vast expanses of gallery white walls lend Archer’s highly physical work a […]
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Steve Lopes Encountered
I go backwards and forwards . . . I live between two worlds, in my head. Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at once both everywhere, and nowhere. An inveterate traveller since his youth, his insatiable curiosity for new experiences drives his art and desire to tell stories, connecting the threads of history […]
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Ildiko Kovacs
Ildiko Kovacs’ beautifully resolved abstractions are the work of an artist fully in control of her craft, yet willing always to take the risks needed to transform those paintings into art.
Star Picket
‘Star Picket’ brings together artists from Central West NSW to investigate cross cultural sky stories and the mapping of the cosmos.
