Your Friend the Enemy documentary
In this preview of the Your Friend the Enemy documentary, meet some of the artists involved as they first encounter the surrounds of Gallipoli.
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Your Friend the Enemy Special Edition
The Your Friend the Enemy trip wasn’t nearly finished after the artists flew out from Turkey in 2014. The project had only just begun.
Chapter 3 – Onto the Peninsula
They say the third night is the worst, and so it was – at least in terms of sleep. That’s when you have to be glad of Turkish coffee first thing next morning. It sure proves its value for money. Short and black, grounds thick enough to chew on and guaranteed to kick like a […]
Chapter 2 – Istanbullus
After three days straddling the Golden Horn, there is a sense of itchy feet; artists eager to get into the field, but at the same time an ongoing thirst to imbibe the full richness of Istanbul.
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2014 Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne opens its doors to the international art community, with the annual Melbourne Art Fair 13 – 17 August.
Deirdre Bean
Deirdre’s watercolour paintings reveal the beautiful forms that can be found within nature.
Elisabeth Cummings
Cummings works quietly and consistently. Her work, while influenced by landscape,her process is led by intuition.
Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape works.
Euan Macleod
Macleod produces dark, expressive landscape paintings
Guy Maestri
Maestri’s work documents the many journeys he has made across the country and the experience of the Australian landscape.
Idris Murphy
Your Friend the Enemy – the title of this exhibition – is inspired by a recent discovery of 160 letters written by grandfather Charles Idris Pike.
Michael Nock
Michael Nock is a practicing artist primarily focusing on oil painting, his works are imbued with the deep emotion that is etched into the landscape.
Peter O’Doherty
Peter O’Doherty’s paintings are tonal assemblages of oblique geometric detail imbued with dense shadow and vivid Australian light.
Susan O’Doherty
Susan O’Doherty is a mixed media artist whose work ranges from large abstract paintings through to small mixed media assemblages as well as acrylic portraits.
Stanley Palmer
Holding a personal connection to the trip, New Zealand artist Stanley Palmer’s Father fought at Gallipoli.
Amanda Penrose Hart
Travelling informs the work of respected Australian contemporary painter Amanda Penrose Hart.
Luke Sciberras
Earthy tones and layered washes result in the vibrant flowing landscapes by Luke Scibberas.
Michael Shepherd
Michael Shepherd’s meticulous paintings are characterised by an understated, subtle palette.
Jonathon Throsby
Jonathon Throsby’s landscape paintings are not static subjects.
John Walsh
New Zealand indigenous artist John Walsh is known for his unconventional style.
Chapter 1 – Hello My Friend
There was plenty of think-time on a 24hr flight for eleven artists from Australia and New Zealand as they embarked from antipodean shores on Anzac Day 2014. Exactly 99 years after the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula.
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