Vera Moller: Hybrids

Fired by a fascination with the possibilities of the surreal, art intersects  with science, the real converges with the imaginary in a studio inhabited by pseudo-organic objects. Jo Bertini captures the sci-fi world of 'otherness' of Vera Moller.

Art World

The New.... Until December 21st David Bromley's famous work can be vewed at the Tim Olsen Gallery.

The Art Oracle

Showcasing the best of Australian art, with an eye to artistic merit and market value.

New Work - Joanna Logue

“How I see the landscape at any given point is how I want to articulate it. I can’t lie; I want to convey the truth of what I see…”

Joanna Logue is based in Oberon in the central west region of New South Wales. She is well known for her atmospheric landscape paintings based on aspects of her immediate environment in Oberon. Although the paintings are inspired by the particular landscape where she lives and are therefore quite personal, Logue pares back the various elements in the composition and softens the focus so that the final works become dreamlike recollections of landscape rather than images tied to a specific place. More recently, Logue’s exploration of the landscape has extended to video, although, as she explains, she will “always be a painter.” 

Twilight Zone

Few see inside artist David Bromley's secret "headquarters" - a vast, crumbling building where Howard Arkley once had a studio. We take a tour.

Boxoffice - Art

Luke Sciberras - Works on Paper

Tim Storrier AM on Studio

Raising the Famous Father...

Children can struggle to find their identities growing up in the shadow of a celebrated parent.

Pure & Simple

Angus McDonald's serene and mesmerising still-life paintings make you see objects in a whole new light. "If there's something that binds my pictures together it would be light," says Australian painter Angus McDonald. "In almost every piece, I'm chasing after the light as it passes over surfaces and planes and empty space.

Open Gallery

Australian landscapes are usually characterised by dry red earth by Ryan's paintings work with a different pallette. The Victorian-born artist depicts the landscape of her home state in cool blues and greens, capturing fields and trees in the misty light of a cold, wet morning.

The conundrum of Slessor's sixth bell

Robert Jacks

Robert Jacks is one of Australia's most well-known abstract artists. He studied sculpture and painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the late 1950s. His first solo exhibition was held at Gallery A in Melbourne in 1966, and in 1968 he was included in The Field, the groundbreaking exhibition of abstraction at the National Gallery of Victoria. Although known as an abstractionist, Jacks's work has numerous figurative references, particularly to musical instruments, reflecting his passionate interest in jazz.

Face Value

She's an enormously successful Archibald Prize winner, but Cherry Hood's portraits of beguilingly beautiful boys continue to cause contoversy.  Janet Hawley learns why she can't stop painting them.

John Olsen at 80

CWK salutes a grand old master from a generation of painters who taught us how to read the country.

A Palette and a Plate of Paella

Ahead of his 80th birthday, John Olsen is revisiting his boyhood seaside haunts on canvas, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.

Memories in the Frame

Sea Change

Artist John Olsen turns his attention from the outback to the beach in his latest works.

On the eve of his 80th birthday, John Olsen sparkles with excitement as he
reveals he has been realising some new paintings. “I’m in love again,” he says, referring to two vast canvases he’s been working on in his studio over the last three months. They evoke, he says, “memories of being brought up at Bondi and around the harbour. There is such a kind of myth
in Australia of being born under the sun.”

High Tide for the Harbour Master

The record-setting John Olsen is still painting with the excitement of a child in awe of Sydney Harbour, writes Lyndall Crisp.

An American collector who'd never heard of John Olsen and had seen only an image of his work in an email attachment has paid a record price for a painting sold through an Australian commercial gallery. The prominent Washington art lover, acting on advise from an agent, paid $750,000 for 'Spring Tide', a 200 x 400cm oil on board by Olsen.

Pure Poetry of art's dreamers

The idea came from Barry Pearce, head curator of Australian art, who has prepared the gallery's big summer exhibition, Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective, which opens on November 2. Pearce's starting point was Nolan's fascination with the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Dispatch/ Need to Know Designers

Sydney based artist Paul Davies is building a reputation with a new take on landscape painting; glorious panoramas of moderninst houses in bold washes of colour. Inspired by artists like Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, Davies' take on 1970's modernism has resulted in a world of houses that would make perfect feature material for this magazine.