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GQTony Magnusson
April 2011 edition
Paul Davies designs the artist page for the latest edition of GQ
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Broken Dreams of An Athlete
The Mosman DailyKate Crawford
25/2/11
The paintings in artist Sophie Cape’s first solo exhibition reflect the pain of her former career as a downhill ski racer. Sophie’s paintings have been described as “shocking in impact with their shattered bones and broken dreams”. Sophie grew up in Mosman and is the daughter of Mosman artist Ann Cape
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Songs for Sorrow
Better PhotographySummer 2011
What does it take to become an art photographer? While well-known artists can command high prices for their work, most started with small shows and built their reputation over number of years. Ben Ali Ong is at the beginning of his career, having just secured representation with the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney where at his first exhibition with the gallery he sold 22 pieces.
What Now? Melinda Harper
Australian Art CollectorCourtney Kidd
Jan 2011
What Now?
MELINDA HARPER
Your dazzling paintings in the 1990’s with right, clashing colours, attracted a lot of attention. What have you been working on lately?
I’m focussing on the show coming up in March. It’s made up of embroidery works, small scale about 30 by 30 centimetres in size and all done by hand. Their embroidery mesh is spray-painted, they’re like the way I work with paper. _continue reading
The Getting of Wisdom
The Good Weekend, Sydney Morning HeraldJanet Hawley
11/12/10
Lessons learnt from life.
John Olsen
The artist, 82, tells what he knows about…
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Photographer Battles to Stay in the Picture
The Sydney Morning HeraldSteve Meacham
10/11/2010
Rex Dupain quickly acknowledges his favourite subject in his
new book and exhibition, Australia: 150 Photographs. “Turn to page 57,” he
says, deadpan. “She was the most obedient model in the book. I said stay still
and she did just that. I didn’t even have to get her to sign a model release.”
The joke becomes clear when you reach the right page: a statue in Waverley
Cemetery
Creative Symbolism
Inside Out MagazineLainey George
06/10/2010
Art, design and family come together in painter David Band's Melbourne home and studio, providing inspiration for his fertile mind.
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Secrets of the Old Masters laid bare
The Sydney Morning HeraldSteve Meacham
03/09/2010
Its contemporary painting done the old school way, writes Steve Meacham. The large, colourful Kandinsky- influences abstracts that dominate Charlie Sheard’s studio in a former warehouse in Redfern give little hint of the 50-year-old painters obsession with Titian, Velasquez and Rembrandt.
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If only I had...
The Daily Telegraph30/8/2010
When an earthquake struck while costume’ designer Jodie Fried was in India she did what she could to help. Meeting women with excellent textile skills, her business Bholu was born. Using designs created by children, she produced cushions, throws and soft toys made by local women. Money is used to support the community. To date nine schools have been built. Colour bind.. As a big fan of David Band I would take anything from his painting collection. This one particularly strikes a chord. I love the mix of red, pink and orange. David Band, Acid Tongue #3, 2010, $9900 from Tim Olsen Gallery.
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New Portrait Head
Australian Financial ReviewKatrina Strickland
26/08/2010
A deputy director at the National Portrait Gallery, Louise Doyle, is expected to be announced as its new director today. The news comes as the Canberra based institution acquires Cherry Hood’s 2002 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of pianist Simon Tedeschi, which Sydney gallery owner Tim Olsen donated to it.
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NGA buys 'tough' Olsen
The Australian Finanical ReviewKatrina Strickland
26/08/2010
The National Gallery of Australia has bought John Olsen’s Butcher’s Cart Deia de Mallorca. Painted by the 82-year-old artist in the past year, it depicts a meat cart he used to walk past while living in Spain in the 1950’s.
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What Now?
Artist ProfileJane O'Sullivan
July 2010
What Now? Six contemporary artists talk about their most recent work? Matthew Johnson..
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Olsen ready to brush with MPs to save art
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
24/6/2010
John Olsen, the elder statesmen of Australian art, is preparing to go toe-to-toe with the federal government over proposed changes to superannuation policy, which he says threaten Australia’s status as a creative nation, the livelihood of emerging artists and the viability of the art market.
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Outback and Red- But Green All Over
The AustralianNicolas Rothwell
June 19-20, 2010
Revelling in outback colour
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The Art of Design
Marie ClaireMay 2010
Artist George Raftopoulos was amongst the several top Australian artists chosen to help celebrate 15 years of Australian Fashion Week. George collaboratively worked with designer Alex Perry to create a unique stuning piece that will be auctioned for charity.
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The Luxe Factor
BelleTanya Buchanan
June/July 2010
Architects and designers get to talk design all the time, but what about all the other artistic dynamos out there? Belle asks nine creative Australians to consider luxury in design. These actors, artists, fashion designers and entrepreneurs are all influenced by good form, but what is luxury for them? Overwhelmingly, beauty, originality and old-fashioned craftsmanship get the nod from this inspired group.
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Blood ties: artists prove that talent trandscends family
Sydney Morning HeraldMarch 2010
Having a famous surname has been a great motivator for a woman called dove, writes Keilie Hush... Making a splash, John Olsen and Paloma Picasso meet for the first time at the Tim Olsen gallery in Woollahra.
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A feast for the eyes
Sydney Morning HeraldTracey Clement.
March 12, 2010
John Olsen uses paint in his culinary masterpieces, writes Tracey Clement. Judging by the bulging band of celebrity chefs cooking up a storm on the telly, Australia has become a nation of foodies. But long before the popularity of MasterChef, Jamie Oliver and the luscious Nigella, iconic Australian painter John Olsen was getting busy in the kitchen.
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The Art of Dining - John Olsen's Creative Flair with Food
Sydney Morning HeraldHelen Pitt
March 2010
For the passionate and creative John Olsen, food is art and, in
his latest exhibition and book, art is food, writes Helen Pitt.
En route to the Spanish island of Majorca, artist John Olsen had an
epiphany in Barcelona's La Boqueria market. The year was 1957 but,
growing up in 1930s Australia, he thought green beans were meant to be
khaki-coloured and peas were grey and mushy. Born in Newcastle in 1928,
where his father ran a clothing shop in Hunter Street, he says his
mother as a cook was typical of her time: everything was over-boiled.
A Taste of Spain - Olsen mixes memory and desire
Australian Financial ReviewKatrina Strickland
March 2010
The man who is arguably Australia's greatest living artist has combined his love of food and art - and family - in an exhibition with a twist, writes Katrina Strickland. John Olsen and Stephen Ormandy were discussing openings. The 82-yearald Olsen has had dozens, including one for his latest show, Culinaria: The Cuisine of the Sun, which opened at Tim Olsen's Sydney gallery last night. Olsen's son-in-law, Ormandy, had his second only last month
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