John McDonald
2007
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.
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Art Bites
Belle MagazineWords by Neale Whitaker
April/May 2007
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
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An Artist's Residence - Inside David Bromley's Private World
Inside Out MagazineWords by Rachelle Unreich
March 2007
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.
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Clara Iaccarino
24 - 25 March 2007
Paul Davies' name often comes up in lists of hot artists and ones to watch.
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Kerrie Davies
March 2007
Who wil be the next big names? Kerrie Davies paints portraits of some promising young artists.
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Right Now Art - Double Take
Belle MagazineEdited by Leta Keens
February 2007
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)
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David Larwill 2007
David Larwill has emerged as one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary artists. His style of populating his paintings with stylised human figures and animals, his use of child like forms and the occasional inclusion of slogans, gives his work a naive quality. Larwill evokes an extraordinary range of feelings, moods and expressions through his paintings and many of his works have considerable primal strength. With Larwill, the artistic experience is direct, and the viewer is obliged to respond spontaneously to the core truth of each work. David Larwill is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; The British Museum, London; and in most State and Regional Galleries throughout Australia.
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David Larwill Recent works 2007
Katrina Strickland
19th October 2006
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
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Katrina Strickland
16 October 2006
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.
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Janet Hawley
September 2, 2006
'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
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2006
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.
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Picture Perfect
VogueWords by Antonia Williams
May 2006
Given his line of work and his lineage it's not surprising that the walls of Tim Olsen's family home are lined with an enviable collection of modern art.
Photography by Hugh Stewart
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May 27 - 28 2006
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'.
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September 2005
“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.”
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Cool Hand Luke
Vogue Living AustraliaProducer: Susan Westwood
August 2005
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
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2005
John Olsen has won the 2005 Archibald Prize for his painting Self Portrait Janus Faced.
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Jane Bardon
29 April 2005
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.
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