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Dec 3
Slow Reveal Arrives
Slow Reveal cover, image: Modern Muse II by Dagmar Cyrulla My new book, Slow Reveal – The Nude in Australian Art , will be released in...
Sep 19, 2023
Ken Unsworth Early Performances
Ken Unsworth: Performance Works 1975-7 This article was first published in ICA Magazine #9, January-March 1978. I am re-publishing it...
May 15, 2023
Michael Johnson – The Eurobodalla Paintings
New small-scale work from Michael Johnson reveals a more intimate side to a painter better known for his large-scale work. Michael...
Jan 23, 2022
The Magic of Matisse
Henri Matisse remains unique among 20th Century artists and, because of the magical quality of his work, he will surely remain unique...
Nov 21, 2021
John Beard – The Restless Eye
He may be 77, but there is no sign of John Beard’s intellectual and painterly curiosity diminishing. John Beard and After the Raft of the...
Mar 22, 2021
The Artist in his Studio
Cliff’s sketchbook Artists are notoriously coy about letting people into their studios, especially other artists. Picasso was an...
Mar 1, 2021
A Tasmanian Affair Part 3
I was just kidding…Antarctica has no cultural significance for Tasmania apart from the fact that Hobart is the base for Australia’s...
Jan 26, 2021
A Tasmanian Affair Part 2
As I’ve already mentioned in A Tasmanian Affair Part 1, owning a house on the East Coast of Tasmania occasions regular trips from our...
Jan 7, 2021
A Tasmanian Affair Part 1
In 2013, my wife and I acquired our piece of paradise on the East Coast of Tasmania. This is on a spit of land known as Dolphin Sands and...
Jan 3, 2021
Streeton the Abstractionist
The big art event over the 2020/21 summer in Sydney is the Arthur Streeton survey at the Art Gallery of NSW – the first since 1996 of...
May 21, 2020
A Field of Colour & Tony McGillick, a Retrospective
Paul wrote the main catalogue essay and co-curated a major retrospective of the paintings of his late brother, Tony, for the Macquarie...
May 14, 2020
Indonesian Interlude
Ever since studying Indonesian history at university, I’ve been fascinated by the influence of India on the Archipelago – hence, our...
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