REVIEW: Classics from the Golden Age of Utopia
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre and Ada Bird Petyarre lead with major paintings that were revolutionary at the time. They are supported by many of their friends and peers who add to the richness and diversity of the wider Utopia community. There are major works in this exhibition including those drawn from private […]
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Richard Larter
There’s no painter quite like Richard Larter (1929-2014). After emigrating from Britain with his wife Pat and young family in 1962 and settling in Luddenham on the semi-rural outskirts of Sydney, Larter had his first exhibition at Watters Gallery in 1965. Over the next decade, he became a renegade in the Australian art scene (represented […]
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Canvas As Sanctum
Of course, no painter is forced to work on a traditional, stretched canvas and in recent years the informality of a sheer piece of material, hanging freely on or away from the wall, has been preferred by many. But the canvas’ firmly bordered plane can still, if handled well, be the perfect ground for painting, especially […]
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35 years and counting: Utopia Art Sydney
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young artists in Sydney working multiple part-time jobs to support their exhibiting career. “In the late eighties I saw artists who needed a hand” he explains, with the same purposeful succinctness […]
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Donna Green
Donna Green’s beautiful Bacchanalia, 2022, is slung low beneath the weight of its own ripe fulness. Bulbous forms – at once like stone fruits, breasts, or camp confections in a storefront window – tumble over each other, enfolded in a high-gloss glaze. Aptly named for the privately funded, opulent Roman festivity known as the Bacchanal, the title […]
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