Bernard Ollis: Paris Considered
Jul 25th
I'm thrilled to be opening Bernard Ollis' next show at NG Art Gallery. Check out the gorgeous paintings in Bernard's catalogue, by clicking here. I'll be uploading one of my interviews with Bernard soon. Meanwhile, Bernard's website is here. Elizabeth Fortescue, July 25, 2012
Wendy Sharpe sails to Antarctica with the Mawson Centenary Expedition
Jul 21st
I had a wonderful talk to Wendy Sharpe in her studio this week, about her six weeks on board the Aurora Australis in January-February this year [2012], as an invited artists with the Mawson centenary expedition to Antarctica. Wendy had been invited by David Jensen, chairman and CEO of the Mawson's Huts Foundation, to help ...
Archibald Prize 2012, or “Smudge Storrier’s big day out”
Apr 27th
When Tim Storrier won the Archibald Prize on March 30, 2012, no one expected the occasion at the Art Gallery of NSW to become a doggy day out. But that's exactly what happened when Storrier's family cajoled the gallery attendants into giving the family pooch special access. And quite rightly so, because Smudge the rescued ...
William Kentridge talks to Artwriter about his latest Sydney exhibition
Apr 25th
South African contemporary artist William Kentridge is one of the world’s most extraordinary artists and, in recent years, one of the most celebrated. Kentridge’s work is inventive, poetic, dramatic, reflective, political, sincere and communicative of the human condition. I interviewed Kentridge on March 9, 2012, when he came to Sydney for the opening of his Annandale ...
