Guy Maestri
Leo Robba
26/1/2012
The Herald invited 12 artists to share a glimpse of the country through their eyes.
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Ashleigh Wadman
Nov 25th 2011
Guy Maestri’s portrait of the musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, was conceived after the artist saw Gurrumul perform in Sydney on New Years Eve 2008. Maestri found the performance unforgettable and recalled that, ‘word had been going around all day and the rumours were true- people really were moved to tears.’
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1/11/11
Sydney gallerist Tim Olsen claims a Victorian link by recalling his childhood at the Dunmoochin artist's
colony, when the likes of Fred Williams, John Brack and Albert Tucker would come to dine with his father, the artist John Olsen.
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Linda Morris
12/03/2011
20 Questions
Guy Maestri
Archibald winner, Johnny Cash fan, Mudgee boy, coffee snob.
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December 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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Elissa 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.
Elizabeth Fortescue and the Daily Telegraph
Sept 30 2009
JUST before he won the Archibald Prize earlier this year, Sydney artist Guy Maestri felt impatient and dissatisfied with his work.
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Margaret Farmer
Vol.46 No.3
Revelling in paint's materiality, Guy Maestri creates abstract gestures of colour and line supplement by a figurative lexicon expressive of environmental concerns.
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Menios 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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Louise 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.
Louise Schwartzkoff
6 March 2009
Artist Guy Maestri has taken out the prestigious Archibald Prize with his portrait of blind Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu.
6 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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6 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.
On Display
Vogue Living AustraliaArts and Events Section
August 2007
OPEN SPACE - For just over twelve years, Tim Olsen, has gathered some of this country's most exciting artistic talent in his iconic Paddington gallery. Following on from this success, Olsen has created a stunning new dual-level gallery in Woollhra.
"I want this to be a place of positivity...that the art we maintain here elevates the level of beauty," Olsen says. The first artist to show in the new gallery was Guy Maestri, one of Olsen's youngest starts. "Guy's work has a vigour and an exuberance, being able to work in an abstract figurative way".
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