Luke Sciberras - ABC 7.30 Report
2008Luke Sciberras talks to the ABC 7.30 Report about his work and inspiration. Includes footage at his latest opening, interviews with Luke and the artist at work.
Excerpt only. Full interview DVD available from the Gallery.
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Luke Sciberras Persimmon Season 2007
John Olsen - A Salute to Sydney
John Olsen's exhibition 'Salute to Sydney: Olsen at Eighty' opened to
tremendous acclaim in November 2007 and signalled the official opening
of the new Tim Olsen Gallery on Jersey Rd. Tim hosted a red carpet gala
event that was attended by many Olsen devotees together with notable
artists, actors, writers and television personalities.
John Olsen's exhibition 'Salute to Sydney: Olsen at Eighty' opened to tremendous acclaim in November 2007 and signalled the official opening of the new Tim Olsen Gallery on Jersey Rd. Tim hosted a red carpet gala event that was attended by many Olsen devotees together with notable artists, actors, writers and television personalities.
Long time friend and director of the Art Gallery of NSW Edmund Capon opened the exhibition that marks an important shift in Olsen's paintings from the vast dry interior to Sydney's harbour and beaches. In the excerpt of the evenings events John Olsen also reflects on his childhood spent on Sydney's shores that provides the central motivation for this beautiful collection of paintings.
Filmed and edited by Noah Hutchison of artcine.com.au
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John Olsen A Salute to Sydney 2007
Philip Hunter - Lines in the Dirt
John Olsen opens the critically acclaimed Philip Hunter 2008 exhibition. Olsen praises the quality of the painting and comments on Hunter’s position as the head of the new guard of artists re-interpreting our response to the land.
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Philip Hunter Lines in the Dirt 2008
Paul Davies 2008
Paul Davies has dedicated the past five years to refining subjects based on the distinctive use of architectural facades and interiors; inspired by bold colours and minimal designs prevalent in 1970s modernism. Prior to his 2008 exhibition at Tim Olsen Gallery, Paul Davies talks to Tim Olsen about his work and inspiration, from his Surry Hills studio through to his opening night.
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Paul Davies New Paintings 2008
Sunday December 9, 2007
Bare Nakes Babes, For Art's Sake - Megan Gale nude. Cheyenne Tozzi topless. Kristy Hinze starkers. Now I have your attention, let me tell you all these women posed for artist David Bromley and the paintings are on display at the Tim Olsen Gallery in Woollahra. And more surprising, he convinced non-model types to disrobe. You can see paintings of designer Collette Dinnigan and singer Kate Ceberano. Bromley has a job most Aussies blokes would happily kill for. 'I'm afraid when a beautiful, famous woman is naked in the room, I'm more intent on capturing the image rather than thinking about breasts,' he confessed shyly.
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John McDonald
December 1-2, 2007
The fireworks arrive early as John Olsen celebrates his birthday with a swashbuckling assault on Sydney.
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Louise Schwartzkoff
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Ahead of his 80th birthday, John Olsen is revisiting his boyhood seaside haunts on canvas, writes Louise Schwartzkoff.
Karen Pakula
November 10-11, 2007
Queensland meat lover Stefan Dunlop uses his wide brush and graphic sensibility to explore beauty in a carcass, roasted as well as raw.
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Susan Westwood
September/October '07
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.”
Lyndall Crisp
19 October 2007
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.
Kerry Coleman
Sept 22-23 2007
Robert Malherbe's works are best viewed from afar, where the scoops and swirls of paint become striking nudes.
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Steve Meacham
14 September 2007
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.
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2007
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.
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John McDonald
1st September 2007
Marie Hagerty and Vera Moller
The intensity that Tomescu cultivates is neither an option nor an ambition for many other painters. The two artists showing at the Tim Olsen Gallery take a much cooler approach. Marie Hagerty is a painter of elegant abstract canvases that embrace qualities of design Tomescu rejects out-of-hand._continue reading
Philip Hunter - The Memory of Water
Australian Art CollectorAshley Crawford
July - Sept 2007
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
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Margie Fraser, Photography by Jared Fowler
July/Aug 07
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.
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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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Desert Heart
Vive MagazineWords by Kirsty De Garis
Aug - Sept 2007
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.
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Stefan Dunlop
Tema Celeste Contemporary ArtFederico Herrero
2007
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.
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