As an English artist, the climate and architecture of Los Angeles was a revelation to the young David Hockney. Amidst its people and pools Hockney quickly found an artistic footing and a new subject in water. The idea of painting moving water as Hockney said, was ‘… very appealing to me … It is...
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By menzies
10 Sep 2021
The artist Banksy is a provocateur who uses art to make political points. His prints and paintings critique authority and take air from serious issues by stealth. Banksy uses walls as the site for new meaning and inversions. Why practise art in a studio when life is more real at street level,...
By menzies
10 Sep 2021
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important contemporary artist of the twentieth century. The reasons are as many as they are various but perhaps the most far-reaching is Warhol’s use of serial imagery. By 1956, artists in London and New York were drawing upon popular and secondary media for...
By menzies
08 Sep 2021
David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. Now well into the twenty-first century and into his eighties, Hockney shows no signs of fading from the cutting edge of artistic practice. Hockney has worked in a vast array of media including painting,...
By menzies
08 Sep 2021
The sculpture Vault 1980 was commissioned in 1978 for Melbourne City Square. Once installed the sculpture provoked discussion and acrimony that led to Vault being relocated to Batman Park in 1981 and subsequently to Australian Centre of Contemporary Art in 2002.
By Corinna Cullen BA MA Art History and Curatorial Studies
03 Jun 2021
Tim Storrier works in a grand romantic tradition, against the flow of his artistic contemporaries. The individuality and consistency of his voice has established him as a major figure in Australian art.
By Corinna Cullen BA MA Art History and Curatorial Studies
03 Jun 2021
‘Essentially my work deals with the infinite; it has got to do with the elements, stars, landscape, fire, water, air.’1
One could go further and suggest that Storrier’s work specifically addresses how humans interact with what is sublime in nature, and our humility in the face...