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Artist Features
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CRAIG HANDLEY - WINNER3 JUNE 2015After recently being awarded 'Highly Commended' at the Calleen Art Award', Craig Handley has been named the winner of the Kogarah Art Prize by this year's judge, John McDonald. |
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' . . .and they have escaped the weight of darkness . . 'July 2012In a time of great social upheaval, as we face the decline and fall of many old certainties, Ruddy presents us with an alternative take on existential choices. To reach the light one must first understand the darkness. He lays down an invitation to let go of inhibitions and take an elemental journey through a floating spiritual universe, redolent with feminine energy. The most important attribute may simply be the courage to begin. ...more |
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Stormie MillsThe Art Street Journal27 August 2010 If you live in or near Sydney, I recommend you visit Richard Martin Art in Woollahra on Sept 1 to see Stormie Mills' new solo show. ...more |
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Ruddy's win PopularDaily TelegraphFirday, May 21, 2010 Had the public judged the Archibald this year, Craig Ruddy's portrait of filmmaker Warwick Thornton would have won. ...more |
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Thirds WorldThe Weekend Australian Magazine27/3/2010 Behind a Melbourne bowling alley, skip-diving is a trophy sport.
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From Archibald to ArgentinaThe Weekend Australian Financial Review28-29 November 2009 William Dobell retreated to his sisters farm on Lake Macquarie in the mid-1940s after the infamous court battle over whether his 1943 Archibald Prize winning portrait of fellow artist Joshua Smith was a portrait or a caricature....sixty years later another artist, Craig Ruddy, was taken to court over his 2004 Archibald prize-winning portrait of actor David Gulpilil, this time weather it was a painting or a drawing.
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Levitação / LevitationNovember 2009Craig Ruddy captures the sharp light of Rio de Janeiro as it is reflected by the rippling sea, bouncing off the white sands to create a distinctive, mauve haze. The shards of light overlap and fragment, as though refracted by panes of glass, and the imagery in Ruddy's Levitation series is further affected by the glass sheets superimposed over his most recent paintings. Outlines of athletic figures immersed in water, tumbling in the frothy surf and leaping on the beach sometimes resemble the shimmering profiles of a mirage. The horizon shifts. Shadows seem to appear and disappear, but in fact, they really do ...more |
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Favourite ThingsGood Weekend, The Sydney Morning HeraldSeptember 12, 2009 When Perth artist Stormie Mills, 39, started painting his city as a 12 year old, he came to see the walls he marked as part of a layered artwork. "Spray paint is such a thin medium, it takes on the texture of the wall," he says. When affronted citizens erased his work with their own paint patchwork, he saw that as an artistic conversation. » Click here to download PDF of article |
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Better then a Chook RaffleMosman DailyThursday July 2, 2009 Mosman artist Tina Hansen-Jones has devoted a whole exhibition to portraits of ordinary everyday chooks... ...more |
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THE PLANNER - Gordon RichardsThe Sydney Morning HeraldMay 9-10, 2009 Gordon Richards ...more |
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Julie HarrisAsian Art NewsMarch / April 2009 Now established as a leading art event in the Australian art calendar The Fleurieu Biennale Water Prize bring together a wide variety of art. But while the works may be of uneven quality, it is clear that the Water Prize has well and truly 'arrrived' and its organizers have earned the right to expect a stellar future. ...more |
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Dogman gives paws for thoughtDaily TelegraphMarch 2009 Across the road from Woollahra's Lord Dudley Hotel was the sourece of their amusement, a giant man-dog by the side of the road, on his knees, sipping a cappuccino. Half man, half dog - naked in every explicitly proportionate detail. ...more |
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Weird Dog Sculpture FuroreThe Daily Telegraph18 March 2009 A GIANT half-man, half-dog bending over naked while sipping a cappuccino is causing a stir among the latte set of Woolahra. ...more |
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Gordon RichardsHighlife MagazineDec/Jan 2009 Artist Gordon Richards loves life at his new Moss Vale home. He talks about his journey from top chef to top painter. ...more |
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ON THIS ISLANDArtist ProfileIssue 09. 2009 In early 2009, Artist Profile invited 11 Australian painters on working tour of New Zealand's North Island.
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SquaredHomes and LivingSpring 2006 Waldemar Kolbusz is known for his dynamic expressionistic art - little wonder then that he should take the same liberal and informal approach to renovating his home. ...more |
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Brush with FameBelle MagazineApril/May 2006 What started as an indulgent way to shift his left-brain analytical mind into right-brain intuition has turned former accountant Waldemar Kolbusz into one of Australia's most exciting art talents.
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