Art Reviews

02 Mar 2023

Your art has to come out of your daily life. I really believe that if anyone is born an artist they’ve only got to look at what’s around their feet and what’s available to them. They don’t have to be clever, they don’t have to go to art school, they don’t have to…

02 Mar 2023

Your art has to come out of your daily life. I really believe that if anyone is born an artist they’ve only got to look at what’s around their feet and what’s available to them. They don’t have to be clever, they don’t have to go to art school, they don’t have to…

02 Mar 2023

Modernism is in many ways understood as the concurrent elements of aesthetics and technology. In art, and sculpture particularly, what is most common is the technique required to design and fabricate forms. Whether a product is more functional or indeed abstract does not…

02 Mar 2023

This tapestry-sized painting of a picnic outing harks back to Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe 1863 (Musée d'Orsay collection, Paris) and to deeply personal…

02 Mar 2023

With Gallipoli, Nolan continues his quest for a possible interaction between history and geography, and between imagination and reality. The theme is a great one and means much to the artist, The paintings, so far, evoke wonderfully well the light and atmosphere of…

02 Mar 2023

With Gallipoli, Nolan continues his quest for a possible interaction between history and geography, and between imagination and reality. The theme is a great one and means much to the artist, The paintings, so far, evoke wonderfully well the light and atmosphere of…

02 Mar 2023

Bundeena is a picture-perfect paradise nestled deep within the Royal National Park on the outskirts of southern Sydney. The township is neatly condensed to what appears to be a single street that hugs the shores of Hordens Beach. The pace is slow, and amidst silver…

02 Mar 2023

Sidney Nolan is well known for depictions of the history and mythology of Australian life through an extended series of explorers such as Burke and Wills, Leichhardt, and Shackleton, and the bushranger Ned Kelly. Gallipoli, the famously ill…

02 Mar 2023

James Gleeson has the well-deserved mantle of Australia’s foremost exponent of Surrealism. His practice commenced in the 1930s with Salvador Dali-inspired paintings and quickly evolved into his own unique style. This painting from the estate of Eva Breuer is a…

02 Mar 2023

Landscape with Camel (Burke and Wills) 1966 marks the beginning-of-the-end for the perilous Burke and Wills inland expedition of 1860-61. The Victoria Exploring Expedition was a party of nineteen men led by…

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