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‘Abstract artist James Drinkwater was so moved by William Dobell’s painting “Storm Approaching Wangi” that he painted his own version and created a ballet. It will be performed at Lake Macquarie’s MAP Mima in November. What does a ballet inspired by an artwork look and sound like? The ABC’s Dan Cox needed to know more so he visited Drinkwater’s studio.’ . 🎧 https://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/programs/breakfast/james-drinkwater/13944088
Episode 111- Suzanne Archer the ultimate artist of elimination and addition with an awesome 50 year art career. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-111-suzanne-archer-the-ultimate-artist/id1503610662?i=1000565554442
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‘Sight Unseen’ at Nicholas Thompson Gallery presents selected works from three 2021 exhibitions that were rendered inaccessible to the public for their duration due to Melbourne’s lockdown. These highly distinct bodies of work – ‘Stardust’ by Montpellier-based artist Miles Hall, John Bokor’s ‘Still Lifes & Interiors’, and a joint series by Philjames and Polly Borland titled ‘From Chrysanthemum, to Chrysanthemum’ – were aligned by the peculiarities of our time and now coalesce in a vibrant group show that can be viewed in situ until February 19. Pictured is Two Mandarins by John Bokor.
Eleanor Louise Butt’s ten metre commissioned work ‘Music and Trees’ can now be viewed installed at the newly opened HER BAR in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne . “During the spring of 2021 I travelled through a forest daily to get to the studio where I made this painting. The light shone through the new leaves and shimmered in such a beautiful way that I wanted to re-create the same sense of shifting light within the work. I see this painting as an energetic outburst in which forms and colours intertwine and bounce off one another, pursuing a sense of movement and…
Guy Warren is widely regarded as one of the important elders in Australian art, not because he is a centenarian but because of the exceptional and unusual contribution that he has made to the visual culture of this country. He was born in 1921 in Goulburn in rural NSW to a father who was a pianist and a mother who played the violin. It was a family receptive to the arts and to the natural environment but he grew up during the Great Depression when the pressure was on economic survival and art was thought of as commercial art rather…
“A bold and strikingly illustrated record of women’s art and feminism in Australia, ‘Doing Feminism’ represents over 220 artists and groups with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique. Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally. The images and texts are curated by decade and contextualised to provide a broad analysis of art and feminist criticism since the late 1960s. This…
