This work is constructed with layers of colour organised geometrically across the whole plane. The working process is balanced between pre-determined layering methods and combinatory outcomes that are uncontrived so that accidental correspondences emerge, particularly in the integration of ‘wet’ colour. Liz Coats deals with abstraction in colour and purpose… Read More
Philip Wolfhagen’s painting has long been associated with the elemental presence of coast and landscape. From the beginning his work has been exclusively absorbed into his private obsession with northern Tasmania, the terrain of his personal origins. His painting echoes the great Australian Landscape… Read More
Craggy and wind – hewn, 2000, acrylic on perforated canvas, 170cm x 170cm In her painting Craggy and wind – hewn, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn has created a luminous work that is detailed and layered in both intent and character. Vongpoothorn has used a number of novel techniques in this work,… Read More
The Cover Up series takes as its starting point a particular object (in this case a de Kooning painting from the Woman series). This is then covered with a light fabric as it might be if placed in storage for protection or left in an abandoned room. Read More
In 2005 artist Sally Smart joined Vivienne Webb, Museum of Contemporary Art curator, as the judging panel and selected Walangkura Napanangka (Senior) as the 2005 recipient. Born in 1946 at Tjiturulnga, west of Alice Springs, Walangkura travelled around to different parts of the desert… Read More
Dad is a painting of my Dad. I don’t know why I’d never thought of painting him before. He was awkward and embarrassed sitting for me. Mum made him do it! He likes to be out of the limelight. The painting is a live sitting,… Read More
Large-scale inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper titled Bearing Witness #1 2009 One of Australia’s most significant visual artists, Foley has a heroic ability to communicate powerful ideas and concepts through elegant, understated and sometimes humorous artistic expressions. Foley has been based both in Sydney… Read More
Among the many catalogues and reproduction images Rodney Pople brought back to Australia from his first visit to Venice in 1988 was a postcard of Tintoretto’s Scuola Grande at San Rocco. The juxtapositions inherent to Venice itself – between reality and fiction, strength and… Read More
The 2004 judge, Peter Hill, Senior Art Critic for The Sydney Morning Herald, selected Sally Smart’s A.W. of K. (Beeology), 2004, as the winning painting. According to Peter Hill, “the winning painting by Melbourne artist Sally Smart combines both very strong figurative and abstract elements… Read More
