Catalogue essay for Caroline Rannersberger’s solo exhibition ILLUMINOUS, 19th July – 6th August 2016, Flinders Lane Gallery, 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC Australia. It must be difficult for visual artists who live in Tasmania to not be affected by the spectacular natural environment that surrounds them. Maybe its something in the air, or perhaps its carried on the … Continue reading
ADAM NUDELMAN Anything Just to Belong NKN Gallery, Collins Place, 10 – 26 February, 2016. NKN Gallery of Melbourne & Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary is pleased to present a major exhibition by Australian artist Adam Nudelman, featuring a selection of sublime new paintings. With an artistic career spanning 25 years, Nudelman has exhibited widely and his works … Continue reading
Over the past year I have been working with Stag & Bow and The Framing Salon, two unique businesses in South East London that are all about reviving craft based skills from a grass roots level. Pascale Spall and Cyrus Colquitt founded Stag & Bow nearly five years ago at 8 Dartmouth Rd in Forest … Continue reading
An essay that explores the printmaking practice of Melbourne based artist Robert Hague, coinciding with his exhibition ‘Erasure’ at The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia. 15th July – 2nd August, 2015 In Robert Hague’s lithographic prints, individual objects are isolated for close study as the artist draws out the meaning behind their form and function. Rendering his images with … Continue reading
COLIN PALETHORPE Juxtaposed 5th – 22nd August. Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne AUSTRALIA In Juxtaposed, Melbourne based artist Colin Palethorpe considers the Australian landscape as a hybrid space, using the stark nature of collage to evoke an almost alien collision of European ‘settler’ culture on Australian soil. Idyllic pastoral scenes are sensitively rendered on paper, only to … Continue reading
This article will feature in the Winter 2015 edition of IMPRINT, the quarterly journal for the Print Council of Australia. Over the past 20 years Rona Green has developed a lexicon of hybrid creatures that are instantly recognizable as the product of her outlandish imagination. In various forms of printmaking, and more recently through painting, … Continue reading
John Sheehan The Unknown Way February 28 – March 21, 2015 John Sheehan is a mid-career Australian artist whose watercolours and mixed media works on paper express his own particular vision of landscape and memory. This exhibition features works inspired by the artist’s travels within Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. Using rich colour and loose, … Continue reading
Catalogue essay from a solo exhibition by LUKE SCIBERRAS, titled Under a high desert wind, which was exhibited at James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 4-27 March, 2010 In September of 2008 Luke Sciberras travelled to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, on an art making expedition that was to irrevocably alter the way he engages with … Continue reading
Catalogue Essay for Susan Baird’s forthcoming solo exhibition “Landscape and Light” to be held at Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, 11 – 29, March, 2014 Susan Baird first visited the gold-rush era town of Hill End in 2006, and was immediately captivated by what she refers to as a “landscape of imagination.” This small town scattered … Continue reading
Independent Print 14th – 31st August, 2013 A group showcase of independently operated Presses and Print Workshops around Melbourne. Opening Thursday 15th August, 6.00 – 8.00pm @ Firestation Print Studio. Melbourne is a creative town filled with creative practitioners. But, there aren’t a huge amount of opportunities for such practitioners to make a living doing … Continue reading
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