Sculpture at Scenic World, a great addition to Sydney art scene
May 12th
Sydney: A week or so back I spent a fabulous day in the rainforest of the floor of the majestic Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains, where the event Sculpture at Scenic World had just been installed. You have until May 19, 2013, to see it and I highly recommend that you do. Here's what ...
Sad death of Smudge, Archibald Prize dog
Apr 29th
Artwriter was sad to learn of the recent death by snake-bite of Smudge, the little terrier which featured as one of the psychological trappings in Tim Storrier's Archibald Prize-winning self portrait from 2012. The painting is titled The histrionic wayfarer (after Bosch). Smudge was much loved by Storrier, who appreciated the dog's lack of critical opinion ...
Nicholas Harding in conversation with ArtWriter about being in Paris
Apr 1st
Last year I asked the wonderful Sydney artist Nicholas Harding if I could "follow" him on his Parisian trip by sending him questions and publishing his answers on my Artwriter website. To my delight, Harding readily agreed. The artist, whose latest exhibition launched at Olsen Irwin gallery recently, is now in Europe and has just answered my ...
Angels-Demons, an exhibition in Sydney by Russian artist collective AES+F
Feb 18th
If you were on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney in 2010, you would have seen the extraordinary, gleaming piece of video art by the Russian artist collective known as AES+F. Titled The Feast of Trimalchio, the video was projected onto a 360-degree circular screen and was mesmerising and seductive, marked by some of ...
Toothpaste tubes and bird cages: photographs of Waste Not, by Song Dong
Feb 17th
Last week I visited the Song Dong exhibition, Waste Not, about which I have written previously (see my earlier post) and took some photographs which show the detail of this wonderful Chinese artist's installation at Carriageworks, Sydney. It is strangely moving to walk quietly between the carefully laid-out groupings of hoarded objects, almost a sense of ...
