Andrew Clark
June 28-29, 2008
Children can struggle to find their identities growing up in the shadow of a celebrated parent.
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July-August 2008
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.
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Leta Keens
Oct/Nov 2007
Tim Olsen's new and improved gallery has the Sydney art community in a buzz. Belle spoke exclusively to him about the nes space, growing up with that famous name and his own brush with an artistic life.
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Josephine Tovey
June 7-8 2008
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.
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Katrina Strickland
Tuesday 22 May 2008, p30.
Tim Olsen has two reasons to be happy this week - Philip Hunter and the federal government's impending resale royalty, writes Katrina Strickland.
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Jo Liston
18 May 2008, p36.
You may not have heard of him, but Philip Hunter has become one of the most sought-after artists in the country almost overnight.
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William Petley
11 May 2008
A Man of the Landscape - Philip Hunter's 'Lines In The Dirt' exhibition will be opened by John Olsen at the Tim Olsen Gallery on Tuesday. (Olsen has commented that the present work reveals Hunter has climbed the ladder to become one of Australia's leading artists.)
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Kerrie Davies
April/May 2008
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.
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Janet Hawley
21 - 23 March 2008
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.
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Rosemary Sorensen
10 March 2008
There is a new take on an age-old symbol of potent male aggression, writes Rosemary Sorensen.
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8 March 2008
Inspired by the bulls of Mudgee and Lennox Head, and by the writing of Ernest (Death in the Afternoon) Hemingway, the artist Angus McDonald is fascinated by bulls. His new collection of wistful and sturdy bulls will surround the directors, management and sponsors of the Sydney Easter Show as they lunch next Thursday at Tim Olsen's Woollahra art gallery, two days after the opening there of McDonald's exhibition, 'Snort!!'.
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Box Office
February 2008
Some like to go fishing, some like to have an aquarium and others, like New York based artist Dirk Westphal, turn their love of fish into an art form.
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Louise Schwartzkoff
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Eclectic paintings jostle for position with celebrity nudes in David Bromley's latest exhibition, reports Louise Schwartzkoff.
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Lyndall Crisp
Summer 2007
CWK salutes a grand old master from a generation of painters who taught us how to read the country.
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Sasha Grishin
January - March 2008
Marie Hagerty over the past few years has established and refined her pictorial language to arrive at a form which is peculiarly her own. She is a young artist in her early 40s whose most recent work is certainly her best.
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John Olsen - Australia's Wandering Minstral
Channel 9 Sunday Program
This wonderful documentary produced by Catherine Hunter and presented by Max Cullen investigates John's enduring passion for the Australian landscape. John revisits Lake Eyre after many years with artist and friend Tim Storrier and discusses his deep love for the desert. Cullen examines other environments that have shaped John's artmaking, including the years spent in Spain in the 1960s; Clarendon, SA and Sydney Harbour, Kings Cross and Hill End, NSW. Fascinating insights are provided by Edmund Capon and Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of NSW.
Archival footage of John teaching drawing at the Julian Ashton Art School and painting in the landscape.
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Philip Hunter FLATLANDS
Melbourne based artist Philip Hunter discusses with Tracee Hutchison his unique interpretation of and relationship with the Australian landscape. Hunter draws his inspiration from Wimmera, in North – Western Victoria where he grew up.
The Wimmera region plays a special role in Australian Art. Sydney Nolan and Arthur Boyd both produced seminal works based within this region. Hunter’s paintings draw upon a narrative that creates a fusion between Indigenous and European interpretations of the Australian landscape. Hunter has developed a language through his paintings that redefine a relationship to a sense of place.
More recently Hunter has embraced the challenge of responding to the indefinable qualities of the Australian landscape. Hutchinson addresses these concerns at the 2004 Melbourne International Art Fair in the Tim Olsen Gallery Stand.
Excerpt only. Full interview DVD available from the Gallery
Filmed and edited by Noah Hutchison of artcine.com.au
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Related exhibition
Philip Hunter Flatlands 2004
Tim Olsen talks with Maggie Tabberer
The Biography Channel
Maggie Tabberer in her landmark series Maggie... At Home visits the homes of various Australian celebrities and to discuss their lives, careers, tragedies, and triumphs. In this episode Tim Olsen speaks candidly about his life, family and collecting art. _view video_view online (external link)