Motion, movement, running, jumping, falling, leaping, climbing, never ending motion. Most elusive of elements. Hard to capture, hard to keep, impossible to illustrate? Or is it?
The recent exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, "Harold Cazneaux: Artist in Photography" (5 June - 10 August 2008), reminded me how great an artist Cazneaux was.
Rather than trying to replicate th...
When I go to the Gallery I have my favourites: the works I always go to see. Sometimes they are not there but many seems always to be around.
Madame Bonnard is always colourful and more fun than her h...
When the term "Pop art" is mentioned, most people find certain artists spring to mind: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, or images of comic frames, Campbell's canned tomato soup or Marilyn Monroe. Pop ar
The exhibition 'Her Beauty and Her Terror' is a collection of photographs taken from the late 19th century up until the mid-20th century that illustrate the harshness of the Australian landscape. It e
The exhibition 'The Lost Thing' blends styles of architectural photography and documentary photography to examine the idea of presence and absence in the Australian landscape. It takes its name and th
This exhibition is called "Yer Mate!" as we have chosen artworks that, we believe, show an Aussie and somewhat masculine perspective, through their subject matter and the types of materials used.
The ...
By Andrew Beetham & Daley Martin - Fri Oct 19, 2007
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) spent the majority of her life in Turramurra, Sydney NSW. She was instrumental in bringing Modernism to Australia. She used colour with a vibrancy that surpassed th
Born in Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart has lived in Italy since 1965. This expatriate Australian painter is renowned for his bleak urban landscapes and still-lifes. He is the modern Australian painte
In Australia, convict transportation and escapism are historical realities. However, they can also refer to art's capacity to transport us to vivid imaginary worlds, where life is more intense and exc
Artists have often used irony, appropriation, absurdity and caricature in their work to make overt or veiled comments about society and the state of the human condition. The artists in this exhibition
From sheep to sharks, animals have been the subject of many artworks for thousands of years. Within Australia the Rainbow Serpent, an Aboriginal religious icon, has long been appearing on rock art. Wh
Carl Plate was one of Sydney's most outstanding abstract painters of the post-war period. Born in Perth in 1909 to an artist father and raised in Sydney, his travels and studies as a young man in Euro
From the politicised voice of the collective mass ('we') to the rediscovery and expression of the self ('me') in the post-cultural revolution era, printmaking in 20th-century China has taken a highly
A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. Portraits are often simple head shots or mug shots. The purpose is ...
What makes an artwork different from 'the real world'?
Imagine if you tossed a box full of junk onto the gallery floor, and walked away. Would it still be there tomorrow? How would the cleaners dec...
