Art Design and a Dinosaur
HabitusNicky Lobo
March 2010
Designer Stephen Ormandy revealed his true origins as an artist when Nicky Logo asked whom it was that inspires him After almost 25 years of creating, the trio behind Dinosaur Designs hardly needs an introdcution. Their name has become synonymous with contemporary Australian design, and the prolific collection of jewellery and homewares produced since their first experiments with resin in 1986 are testament to their relevance and longevity.
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Culinary Arts
BelleTanya Buchanan Photos Jeremy Simons
April/May 2010
A lifelong love of cooking is the inspiration behind John Olsen's latest exhibition
It's not often that you get the chance to have Australia's greatest
living painter advise you on the finer points of cooking - in
particular. how to make a paella - but that's exactly what happened when
I spoke with Dr John Olsen A0 about hisnew exhibition, Culinaria. The
show, which opened at son Tim Olsen's Woollahra gallery on March 2, is a
series of works celebrating John's well-known passion for food that
began when he lived and worked in Majorca in the 1950s.
Stephen Ormandy
Inside OutFebruary 2010
Stephen Ormandy - Successfully straddling the divide between the busiens of art and the art of business. Stephen Ormandy met his wife Louise Olsen and Liane Rossler at art school back in the 1980s, and, around that same time, the trio started creating fabric and jewellery to see at Sydney's Paddington Markets.
Dinosaur Den: Steve Ormandy
GraziaSusie Burge
January 2010
A small but perfect garden makes a summery oasis for one cleve design duo, writes Susie Burge
Lunch with Mat McHugh and Guido Maestri
YenDecember 2009
We join our musician man-crush and the Archibald-winning artiste extraordinaire for some horse play for high achievers In this case it secures the create space of Guido (Guy) Maestri, who was until earlier this year a very talented and well-selling, but little known artist. That was until one not so small painting of musician Gurrumul Yunupingu saw him take out this country's most famous art prize, the Archibald. Joining him for catch-ups this afternoon is one of his ol' mates Mr Mat McHugh - core of the Beautiful Girls and master of his own solo project.
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Bright Stars - Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
Vogue Living AustraliaWriter Betsy Brennan, Photographer Prue Ruscoe
December 2009
A creative couple with an eye for design and an artistic heritage display an impressive collection in a breezy beachside Sydney home. YOU'VE CLIMBED THE umpteen steps to the front door, but you've come to the right house - a large, brilliant artwork by Gemma Smith leave no doubt. "We love that painting here because it creates a wonderful energy when you walk in," says Louise Olsen - artist, designer, Dinosaur Designs creator and living image of her Archibald portrait by David Bromley (which hangs upstairs, a generous gift from Bromley).
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The Art of Happiness: Emma Walker
Country StyleWords Alix Johnson, Photograph Jared Fowler
October 2009
Emma Walker had the art world at her feet, but she had to return to the country to learn she could be creative without feeling miserable.
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Figuratively Speaking
The Spectrum, The Sydney Morning HeraldElissa Blake
October 17-18 2009
Guy Maestri talks to Elissa Blake
Archibald Prize winner Guy Maestri hands me a cane toad. “Feel that,”
he says. “Its skin is like the finest leather. It feels like a
beautiful leather purse.” The toad is dead, by the way, stuffed with
what feels like cotton wool. It’s also been furnished with plastic
googly eyes like those found on a child's toy. But it is wonderfully
soft.
The Hot Seat
The Spectrum, The Sydney Morning HeraldElissa Blake
16 May 2009
Michael Johnson is rummaging in his back trouser pocket. “I have some rocks in here,” he says, pulling them out and unfolding his palm. A cluster of river stones sits in his hand. He gives one to me and one to the photographer. “They are for luck. Hold them in your hands,” he says stuffing his own hand back in his pocket. “I'll keep mine in here.”
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Box Office
The Sydney MagazineAnnemarie Lopez
May 09
Abstract artist Michael Johnson's vivid grid-like paintings use colour to create energy, His works are inspired by Australian colours - rivers, oceans and earth pigments, even the luminescent patina of a beetle.
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Paul Davies
Wallpaper magazine - Online29 April 2009
Channelling the bleak panoramic vision of a young David Hockney, Australian artist Paul Davies’s newest series of paintings, on show this month at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery are a contemporary lesson in pure aesthetics.
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This Week - Sydney
The Australian Financial Review3-4 April 2009
Until April 5, Robert malherbe will have an exhibition at Tim Olsen Gallery in Woollahra. Born in Mauritius in in 1965, Malherbe immigrated to Australia in 1971.
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My Space
Inside Out MagazineKerrie Davies
April 2009
MY SPACE
PAUL DAVIES
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Right Now Art
Belle MagazineLeeta keens
April/May 2009
Paul Davies’ ongoing interest in modern architecture is yet again in his new show at Tim Olsen Gallery.
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Persistance Pays off
Wentworth CourierMenios Constantinou
11 March 2009
Guy Maestri is no stranger to rejection. Before this year, the Surry Hills artist had entered eight of his paintings into the Archibald Prize, each going no further than the storeroom of the Art Gallery of NSW.
"So to those artists whose paintings didn't get hung, keep it up," he said.
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So long, salon des refuses: ninth time lucky for artist
The Sydney Morning HeraldLouise Schwartzkoff
7 March 2009
GUY MAESTRI won the Archibald Prize yesterday for a portrait of
the blind Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
The Sydney artist's work has been rejected eight consecutive
times, ending up in the salon des refuses. But when he saw
Yunupingu perform at the Peats Ridge Music Festival last year he
knew he had found a winning subject.
Yunipingu portrait wins Archibald
The Sydney Morning HeraldLouise Schwartzkoff
6 March 2009
Artist Guy Maestri has taken out the prestigious Archibald Prize with his portrait of blind Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu.
Yunupingu portrait wins Archibald
The Australian6 March 2009
A PORTRAIT of Arnhem Land singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won this year's Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney.
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Guy Maestri Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu wins Archibald Prize
The Daily Telegraph6 March 2009
Guy Maestri Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu wins Archibald Prize
ARTIST Guy Maestri has taken out the prestigious Archibald Prize with
his portrait of blind Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu.
The Hot Seat
The Sydney Morning Herald - SpectrumElissa Blake
21-22 February 2009
LOOKING for Martine Emdur at her next exhibition opening? Check the women's toilet. The Sydney artist, described by her friends and family as "painfully shy", "very humble" and even "a bit kooky", is more than reticent when it comes to talking about her work and sipping champagne with potential buyers - she is almost phobic.
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