Tracey 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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Helen 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.
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Katrina 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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Nicky 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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Tanya 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.
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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.
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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
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Best of the Rest
Australian Financial Review - Life & LeisureJanuary 2010
Sculpture 2010 is a showcase of works by Robert Hague, Camie Lyons (Wings in the Big Blue, pictured) and Peter Vandermark in a variety of media.
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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Writer 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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Jenny Ringland
November 2009
Tim Olsen is one of Australia's best known art gallery owners; he is
also the son of one of Australia's most
celebrated living artists, John Olsen. Given his artistic heritage, Tim
always knew his life would be intertwined in the art world; it was just a
question of how. "I went to art school, but I was intimidated by having
a famous father," he says. "I did a degree in art education to teach
children and the art gallery thing evolved. I like the lifestyle of
dealing with artists, who are like second nature to me."
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Words 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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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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Lissa Christopher
26-27 September 2009
David Larwill, New Paintings
In the 1980's, David Larwill was a member of Roar, a group of young, anti-establishmentarian artists who ran their own exhibitions and occupied themselves with a provocative, new-fangled style of painting known as figurative expressionism.
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Elissa 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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Lissa Christopher
9 May 2009
Davies is popular with buyers and his latest exhibition of unpeopled architectural paintings - some of which feature fine, hand-cut stencil work and each of which has its own note of mystery - has sold out.
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Annemarie 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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29 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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3-4 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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