On the Dobell Prize 2009 @ AGNSW
ArtKritique blog postSaturday 5 December 2009
I look forward to the Dobell Prize. It's the antidote to the celebrity silliness of the Archibald and can be guaranteed to leave you feeling far more elevated.
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2009 Dobell Prize for Drawing
Four finalists represented by Stella Downer Fine ArtNovember 2009
Congratulations to four artists represented by SDFA who have been hung as Finalists in the 2009 Dobell Prize for Drawing: Tanya CHAITOW, David FAIRBAIRN, Graham FRANSELLA & Rod HOLDAWAY ...more
Time and Tide, May Barrie
24 November 2009
Late one evening as a storm approached, I caught a revealing glimpse of the rock. The silver light hit it directly, glazing the two concavities with a sheen, while the rough surface around was made soft by countless tiny shadows. The work seemed to be modelled in reflection and shadow, what the Greeks called skiagraphy. In the past, sculptors might finish their carving at night, modulating the surface with a claw chisel under the direction of an oil lamp. I imagined that the vision I had had at that moment might be projected onto its execution, a work carved in the course of days, the sun shining full face on the carving only at sunset. ...more
91yo takes top prize in Sculpture by the Sea
May Barrie29 October 2009
A 91-year-old artist from Wollongong has won the major $60,000 prize at this year's Sculpture by the Sea festival in Sydney.
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Caught Between A Rock And First Place
May Barrie30 October 2009
May Barrie wins major prize at Sculpture By the Sea 2009
It might look like a meteorite but 'Time and Tide Granite Monolith II', the naturalistic sculpture that yesterday won Sculpture by the Sea's, $60,000 top prize has received a wave of earthly praise for its "incredible simplicity". ...more
Keeping Artistic Traditions Alive
Ian Marr27 October 2009
Do as the Romans did and learn the ancient art of lettercutting.
Ashfield's new artist in residence, Ian Marr will be demonstrating the intricate art at Ashfield's Carnival of Cultures on Sunday 1 November 2009.
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On This Island, Meeting and Parting
Steve LopesOctober 2009 - Issue 9
In early 2009, Artist Profile Invited 11 Australian Painters on working tour of New Zealand's North Island. Included was Stella Downer's very own Steve Lopes.
Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft
4 December 2009 - 31 January 20102009
Forming part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the objects selected for Bravura interrogate the concept of 'place' as represented in contemporary Australian craft. This exhibition features a number of significant new acquistions by craft practitioners Stephen Benwell, Giles Bettison, Sandra Black, Merran Esson, Sandy Lockwood and Vipoo Srivilasa.
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Rae Bolotin speaking at the Powerhouse Museum
in conjunction with the AGNSW's Silk Ikats exhibitionSeptember 2009
Rae Bolotin will speak about 'Memories from Tashkent: life between two cultures in the City of Stone' on Saturday 5 September 2009 at the Powerhouse Museum ...more
NAVA Member Profile: Merran Esson
September 2009
Extract from an essay tited "A Survey of a Sense of Place" by Steven Bowers. Published in Ceramics Art and Perception. Issue 58 2004.
"Merran Esson (NSW) has lived in the vast interior of inland Australia as well as amid the intensely urban confines of its largest cosmopolitan city - Sydney. Her work expresses the contrast between these extremes."
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Art in Troubled Times
Danks Street Conversations on Contemporary ArtJuly 2009
Danks Street Galleries invite you to the fourth in a series of Conversations on Contemporary Art, titled <em>Art in Troubled Time.</em> To be held on Tuesday 28 July, 6 for 6.30pm at Do
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Graham Fransella on Artscape ABC TV
Landscape of the WynneJuly 2009
Artscape on ABC Television is showcasing the work of Graham Fransella in 'Landscape of the Wynne' on ABC1 Tues 28 July @ 10pm and ABC2 Sun 2 August @ 7pm. Winner of the 2009 Art Gallery of New South Wales Trustee’s Watercolour Prize as part of the Wynne Prize, Fransella is exhibiting at Stella Downer Fine Art from 25 August to 20 September 2009.
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Contemplative treasures of a potty pair
February 2009
Married more than 50 years, artist Guy Warren and his wife Joy understand each other very well. He is a distinguished artist while she is an art historian with a phD in ceramics