‘Collect 2024’ is now on @thelockupartspace in Newcastle, NSW! This space is one of my favourite art places - unique, dramatic and foreboding. It was built in the 19th century as a place the police (who were next door) could detain people for short periods in these awful small cells. But 160 years later it has become one of New South Wales most innovative art spaces. Congratulations to young and emerging creating curator Isabel Whittle @seraphstorm for bringing together in this show excellent work of some great artists (including work of many podcast guests). All works for sale. Well worth a look! Until 1 September
#lockupartspace #talkingwithpainters
@_laura_jones_ is well known for creating beautiful fluid monotypes - particularly of still lifes. It’s a process where you paint or draw on glass or smooth metal with ink or oil paint and then press that onto a sheet of paper. It not only can produce unexpected results but it’s fun to do. Although this isn’t literally what Laura did with her large Archibald winning painting of Tim Winton (oil on linen), she was reaching for the effect you can achieve through that process: ’I approached his portrait as if it was a monotype, using thin brushstrokes and letting the paint bleed across the canvas like ink into paper. Dreamy yet direct.’ But, as you can hear in this clip, that wasn’t the only reason she wanted to invoke the process in the work.
My interview with Laura on the day she won the Archie @artgalleryofnsw is the most recent episode on the podcast (which includes a clip fro@ Meg Allier interview with Laura) and the video version is on the YouTube channel. Links in bio.
Looking forward to bringing you more interviews when I return from holidays!
#laurajones #archibaldprize2024 #archibaldprize #timwinton #monotype #monotypeprinting #artgalleryNSW #artgalleryofnsw
SAVE OUR STURT!!! It’s a tragedy that @sturtgalleryandstudios has been ‘paused’ (a term which increasingly appears to be a euphemism). The doors of this important institution, Australia’s oldest design centre and school for contemporary craft have now closed - hopefully temporarily. In glorious Mittagong it has been a sanctuary and nurturing centre for so many artists and has a permanent collection of significant works of leading Australian artists. When I opened the exhibition ‘Evoke’ at the gallery in March there was a huge turnout of supporters many very upset at the prospect of closure. A review committee has been set up to consider options for its continued existence. If you’d like to send a message of support here’s the email address:
[email protected]
#sturtgallery #saveoursturt
Watch to the end! Tapping into my creative self on my break by rewatching my conversation with the fabulous @sandihesterart on the YouTube channel. If you’re dipping your toe back into painting after a long break in painting you can’t go past Sandi’s fabulous advice in this 40 minute interview. Link in bio. Sandi has inspirational content on her YouTube channel and here on Insta so worth a follow if you’re not doing so already!
#sandihester #talkingwithpainters #colourcharts #rembrandtoils
PART 2 - @wendysharpeart exhibition Spellbound @artgalleryofnsw - see previous post for PART 1.
Don’t miss this!! A sensational combination of an exhibition of @wendysharpeart’s paintings and sketchbooks, a recreation of part of her warehouse studio, and the opportunity to watch Wendy as she paints a monumental mural work (on Fridays) - just pull up a seat and watch!! Wendy is a leading Australian painter and has been a regular guest on the podcast - 2 episodes and 5 videos, as well as a live interview in the Artists Speaks series at the AGNSW - and her work centres around the idea of the imagined, the real and the unreal, the creative, and what might be. With the self portrait a recurring image, Wendy draws us into a world which for me is at once personal but also a more general exploration of what it is to be an artist living today (and in particular a female artist!).
Expressive, ingenuous use of colour and uplifting, Get there if you can! FREE, until 11 August. Wendy is represented by @kingstreetgallery and @philipbacongalleries
#wendysharpe #spellbound #talkingwithpainters
NOW ON at the @artgalleryofnsw. Don’t miss this!! A sensational combination of an exhibition of @wendysharpeart’s paintings and sketchbooks, a recreation of part of her warehouse studio, and the opportunity to watch Wendy as she paints a monumental mural work (on Fridays) - just pull up a seat and watch!! Wendy is a leading Australian painter and has been a regular guest on the podcast - 2 episodes and 5 videos, as well as a live interview in the Artists Speaks series at the AGNSW - and her work centres around the idea of the imagined, the real and the unreal, the creative, and what might be. With the self portrait a recurring image, Wendy draws us into a world which for me is at once personal but also a more general exploration of what it is to be an artist living today (and in particular a female artist!). Expressive, ingenuous use of colour and uplifting, Get there if you can! FREE, until 11 August. Wendy is represented by @kingstreetgallery and @philipbacongalleries
#wendysharpe #spellbound #talkingwithpainters
Very sad to hear the news that we have lost a wonderful artist and energetic presence from the Australian art world. Guy Warren may have attracted a lot of attention in recent years due his continued productivity even after becoming a centenarian, but what struck me when I interviewed him in his hundredth year in 2021 was his sharp mind and freedom of expression in his art - it was still so fluid, beautiful and seemingly effortless. There was a watercolour in progress in his studio at the time (in this video) with plenty of works on their way to the galleries. That year he had 5 exhibitions lined up!! He had won numerous awards including the Archibald prize, exhibited in over 50 solo shows and a phenomenal 7 survey shows, and received two honorary doctorates, the Order of Australia and the Australia Medal. Vale Guy Warren. No nonsense and committed to your craft. You will be missed. My interview with Guy is episode 107 on the podcast with a video on the YouTube channel. Links in bio.
@kingstreetgallery
@nicholasthompsongallery
#guywarren #talkingwithpainters
In my latest podcast episode I’m bringing you Friday’s interview with Archibald Prize winner @_laura_jones_ @artgalleryofnsw but also a clip from my conversation with Laura in 2018 following her residency at the Great Barrier Reed where she studied the horrifying coral bleaching events (which have recurred since). She explains the science behind how and why it occurs in a way we can all understand. Thanks for all you are doing Laura in this existential fight. Link in bio for the podcast episode and YouTube video of Friday’s interview.
#laurajones #talkingwithpainters
My 5 minute interview with the fabulous @_laura_jones_, filmed moments after she won the Archie at the @artgalleryofnsw on Friday, is now on the YouTube channel!! Laura talks with me about the influence of monotypes in her winning work of Tim
Winton, how art can be used as an agent for change for the environment and the now famous @incognitoartshow which she co-founded and which supports @_studio_a_ artists, several who have been shortlisted in this year’s @archibaldprize. Heartwarming, inspirational and beautiful. Link in bio!!
#laurajones #archibaldprize2024#artgalleryNSW #artgalleryofnsw
Archibald winner @_laura_jones_ full acceptance speech
@artgalleryofnsw
#laurajones #archibaldprize2024 #artgallerynsw #artgalleryofnsw
💥💥💥And the winners are 💥💥💥:
Archibald prize: podcast guest @_laura_jones_ with her portrait of Tim Winton!
Wynne prize: Djakanu Yunupinu with her painting Nyalala gurmilili!
Sulman prize: Naomi Kantjuriny with her work Minyma many tjuta!
All women!!!! 👏👏👏👏 Images to follow!!
@artgalleryofnsw
#archibaldprize2024 #wynneprize2024 #sulmanprize2024 #artgalleryNSW #artgalleryofnsw #australianpainters
Here’s another of my Archibald picks from last night’s live - @shaun_gladwell’s ‘A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection’ (151 x112cm) I’ll be posting later today about the Archie Wynne and Sulman announcements @artgalleryofnsw so stay tuned!
#shaungladwell #archibaldprize #talkingwithpainters #artgallerynsw #artgalleryofnsw
Here’s one of the four Archie picks I mentioned tonight in my live Insta (thanks for those who tuned in!) ➡️ @tseringhannaford’s portrait of her father Robert Hannaford ‘Meditation on seeing (portrait of Dad)’ is a standout for me. The other 3 I mentioned were portraits by Shaun Gladwell, @_guido_maestri, Laura Peacock and @carolinezilinsky. Join me here tomorrow for all the announcements of the winners of the Archie Wynne and Sulman from the @artgalleryofnsw!!
#tseringhannaford #archibaldprize #artgalleryNSW
One of the most surprising things @marikitsantiago said in our conversation last night was that until she won the @laprairie art award @artgalleryofnsw she still considered herself an emerging artist. This was after having won the Sulman and the @artgalleryofnsw having already acquired two of her works (they’ve acquired one more since) and having had an institutional show!! There’s more to come too - a solo @campbelltownartscentre in 2025 and I cannot wait for that!! Thanks to everyone who came along to the @artgalleryofnsw last night - you were a fantastic audience and thanks to Marikit for her honest, insightful words and to her daughter and artistic collaborator Maella Santiago for joining in the conversation. The Artists in Conversation series is brought together by @agnswmembers (thanks for the warm introduction by director Yvette Pratt) and made possible by the Sir William Dobell Foundation. And thanks to @libbymooreart and @margeyyyyyy for the great photos!
#marikitsantiago #talkingwithpainters
Portraits have been in the news lately so I thought I’d post a short clip of @carolinezilinsky talking with me a few weeks ago in her studio about her powerful self portrait ‘Exquisite Corpse’. You’ll hear the moving story behind the beginnings of the painting - an example of the power art has to lift us from difficult times. The blue portrait in the background is Caroline’s magnificent 2024 Archibald entry of actor @jacobelordi (she has previously been a finalist in the prize) and the Dalton painting Caroline refers to is of artist and podcast guest @jonathandaltonart. Caroline is represented by @nandahobbs in Sydney. Hear my podcast interview with Caroline in episode 157. Full YouTube video of highlights from the interview coming in the next couple of weeks.
#carolinezilinsky #talkingwithpainters #jonathandalton
