Good Weekend Art Column
Clara Adolphs – Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Clara Adolphs Lives: Bundanoon, NSW Age:33 Represented by:Lindberg Galleries, 1270A High St. Armadale, Melbourne (Chalk Horse, 301A, Level 3/77-83 William St. Darlinghurst, Sydney; Edwina Corlette Gallery, 2/555 Brunswick St. New Farm, Brisbane). Her thing. Oil paintings based on found photographs that tap into our own memories and experiences. Our take.Clara Adolphs is not the first […]
Polly Borland – Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
Saturday, November 24th, 2018 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Polly Borland Lives: Los Angeles, USA Age:59 Represented by:Sullivan + Strumpf, (Murray White Room in Melbourne) Her thing. Photographs of soft, coccoon-like shapes that will make your skin crawl. Our take.Polly Borland was born in Melbourne, but has spent most of her working life in London where she established an international reputation for her dark, […]
Christopher Pease – Gallery Smith, Melbourne
Saturday, November 17th, 2018 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Christopher Pease Lives: Dunsborough, Western Australia Age:49 Represented by: Gallerysmith, North Melbourne, (no Sydney representation) His thing. Oil paintings making critical re-appropriations of early colonial landscapes. Our take.Christopher Pease is an artist of Mingang/Nyoongar descent whose work has been exhibited and collected by most of Australia’s leading art museums. Although he identifies as indigenous, Pease […]
Robert Klippel – Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
Saturday, November 10th, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Robert Klippel Lived: Birchgrove, Sydney Age:1920-2001 Represented by:Annette Larkin Fine Art, Paddington, Sydney (no Melbourne representation) His thing. Miniature abstract sculptures and works on paper from the 1980s & 1990s. Our take.Bob Klippel is widely believed to be Australia’s foremost sculptor. A disciple of Modernism, the bulk of Klippel’s work is completely abstract, yet he […]
Kristin Headlam – Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Kristin Headlam Lives: East Brunswick, Melbourne, NSW Age:65 Represented by:Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (no Sydney representation) Her thing. A suite of 64 etchings in response to an epic poem. Our take.Kristin Headlam’s etchings are the fruit of an unusual collaboration. From 1988 to 2005, her partner, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, was engaged in the composition of an […]
Halinka Orszulok – Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney
Saturday, October 20th, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Halinka Orszulok Lives: Jamberoo, NSW Age:40 Represented by:Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney (no Melbourne representation) Her thing.Easel-sized paintings in a photorealist style, featuring eerie, nocturnal landscapes. Our take.Halinka Orszulok hunts by night, tracking down her motifs with a camera. When she finds an image with the right degree of mystery and suggestiveness, she’ll spend months […]
Ken Whisson – Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Saturday, October 13th, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Ken Whisson Lives: Elizabeth Bay, Sydney Age:90 Represented by:Niagara Galleries (Watters Gallery, Sydney) His thing.Small to medium-size paintings and drawings, in which humans, animals and landscapes float in an abstract space. Our take.Ken Whisson must be tired of hearing he’s a “artist’s artist”. This effectively means other artists adore your work while the buying […]
William Kentridge – Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Saturday, October 6th, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: William Kentridge Lives: Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa Age:63 Represented by:Annandale Galleries (sole Australian representation) His thing.Large scale prints and drawings, small sculptures and maquettes relating to opera and multi-media performances. Our take.Over the past decade South Africa’s William Kentridge has become one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, known for an oeuvrethat ranges from […]
Stu James – Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Saturday, September 29th, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Stu James Lives: Brunswick, Melbourne & Rosebud, VIC Age:51 Represented by:Australian Galleries (Melbourne & Sydney) Her thing.Painting meets sculpture in images of the coastline, its birds and fish. Our take.Some artists wear a mask of bloodless objectivity, but with Stu James’s work one can feel the keen pleasure derived from the act of making. […]
Helen Eager – Utopia Art, Sydney
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018 Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Helen Eager Lives: Alexandria, Sydney Age:66 Represented by:Utopia Art (No Melbourne representation) Her thing.Vividly coloured geometric abstractions arranged in an artful installation Our take.In a catalogue note for her exhibition, Satellites, at Utopia Art, Helen Eager writes that her father used to work in a planetarium. She remembers how the Russians put a dog […]