At Home in Bibbenluke with Lucy Culliton
May 10th
Lucy Culliton is an Australian artist who has built a large and stuck-fast following thanks to the steady stream of heartfelt, individualistic, quirky and sheerly gorgeous paintings that she has been producing since graduating from the National Art School in 1996. I first met Lucy when she had just left her horse-painting period behind and was ...
Backstage at the Archibald Prize: paper planes and steel-plate etchings
Apr 17th
When Ben Quilty won the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney yesterday [April 15, 2011], it was less than a decade since he had received his first real career boost – the receipt of the 2002 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. And Margaret Olley, one of the judges of that scholarship ...
Vincent Fantauzzo wins the Packers Prize
Apr 8th
Vincent Fantauzzo won the Packers Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW today, with this portrait of the Sydney chef Matt Moran. For the uninitiated, the Packers Prize has cemented itself into the program of fun and games surrounding the annual Archibald Prize at the AGNSW. The Packers Prize is judged by the jovial chief of ...
Opening of Wendy Sharpe exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery
Feb 28th
Wendy Sharpe is one of the most exciting artists in Australia today, and her career is in full bloom. A survey exhibition of her work has just opened at the S.H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill in Sydney, and ArtWriter was there to record the event for these pages. The exhibition was full of the boisterous ...
Annie Leibovitz meets the Sydney news media at the MCA
Feb 11th
American photographer Annie Leibovitz flew into Sydney for 24 hours on February 9, 2011, to see the exhibition of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The show, titled Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 has been a smash hit for the MCA, drawing the most visitors it has ever had for a ticketed ...
