Philip Hunter - The Memory of Water

Philip Hunter's creative enquiry into the sublime and the human psyche produces his well-recognised and highly idiosyncratic notion of landscape. Ashley Crawford examines his recent works. Portraits by Kirstin Gollings.

Portraits by Kirstin Gollings

Bush Art

After years in a small London loft, artist Stefan Dunlop’s family were ready for a life change. They found it in the Noosa treetops.

Desert Heart

Photography by Prue Ruscoe

Artist Jo Bertini has become a passionate advoctae for the conservation and understanding of Australia's interior. Her wild, dark curls, arresting green eyes and sun-kissed complexion belie the city setting in which we meet. Even in her suburban home, Bertini seems like someone who is most comfortable sleeping under the stars in a swag. Her shoes come off within five minutes and conversation swings from her immediate surroundings to her love of the desert.

Stefan Dunlop

The question that is ultimately of interest to me is how to represent something, not what to represent. This is the focus of my work. A constant throughout the years has been a refusal to blend color or tone, to avoid what some people call "brushing out". In my work there has always been a distinct separation between unmoldulated color fields.

John Olsen

John Olsen is used to being treated like a star, but even he was surprised at the reaction when he won the 2005 Archibald prize with his Self-portrait, Janus faced. "I felt impaled by it," he says. "For three months it was impossible to walk the streets of Sydney or Bowral without being congratulated by very nice people. I was always being asked for interviews.

Art Bites

A single Chinese lantern hung at the entrance of Tim Olsen's Sydney art gallery hints at what lies beyond - a feast for the senses to celebrate the work of artist David Bromley.

Photography by Chris Chen

An Artist's Residence - Inside David Bromley's Private World

Few things can lure artist David Bromley, a self-confessed workaholic, away from his Melbourne Studio - but furniture shopping and music are two of them.

Young at Art

Who wil be the next big names? Kerrie Davies paints portraits of some promising young artists.

Right Now Art - Double Take

Two terrific painting exhibitions are coming up at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery, there's Rhys Lee, named in Australian Art Collector's 50 Most Collectable Artists. His are lavish and exhilarating works, with a hint of underlying menace.

Paul Davies' intense, idiosyncratic and popular paintings in homage to modern architecture, not to mention pools, can be seen at the Paddington Street Gallery.

Paul Davies, Modern Copy Exterior, 2006 (left)

Rhys Lee, Gaggedfix#8, 2006 (above)

Rhys Lee

50 Most Collectable Artists

Art splurge: $1m Olsen

Melbourne property developers Lustig & Moar appear intent on paying record prices for the paintings they want in their new contemporary art collection. After paying $2.04 million last month for Brett Whiteley’s Frangipani and Hummingbird: Japanese Summer, setting a new record for the sale of a Whiteley at auction

Artwork tops $1m

A new record for a work by a living Australian artist was set in Tasmania yesterday when John Olsen's Love in the Kitchen sold for $1.093 million (including buyer's premium) to a private Melbourne collector.

The Masterly Mr Squiggle

'You cannot paint true beauty, true happiness, unless you also understand the depths of despair and sorrow.'

John Olsen, grand old man of Australian art, talks to Janet Hawley

Yen Magazine

Directed and managed by Mark Drew and Edward Woodley, founded in 2004 and located in Sydney, China Heights Gallery sits on the 3rd story of a Surry Hills warehouse where, every Friday night, a cacophony of creatives, art lovers, locals, hipsters and walk-ins mill around work from the likes of Kill Pixie, Design is.

Dreamy and Sensual

Martine Emdur's exhibition, Limelight, now showing at Schubert Contemporary, could be testimony to the words of Ta te Ching, 'nothing in the world is as soft and yeilding as water'. 

It's an Honour: Australia celebrating Australians

Master and apprentice: Tim Storrier and friends introduce art's next generation.

“I remember staying up one night with Tim in his studio and doing some drawings. Tim looked at one of them and he worked magic on it. Then he tossed it into the fire.”

Cool Hand Luke

Following in the footsteps of famous landscape artists, Luke Sciberras takes to the dusty hills of Hill Ed, western NSW, to paint and ponder the nature of things.

Photography by Tony Amos

2005 Archibald Prize Winner

John Olsen has won the 2005 Archibald Prize for his painting Self Portrait Janus Faced.

Olsen wins Archibald Prize

Veteran Australian painter John Olsen has won Australia's most prestigious art competition, the 2005 Archibald Prize for his painting Self Portrait Janus Faced. Olsen was today announced as the winner of the prestigious $35,000 portrait prize by the NSW Art Gallery Trust.