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From Bonny Dot Cassidy They come loitering down a runway, into Linda Marrinon’s sixth solo show Figure Sculpture II at Roslyn Oxley9 [until March 1]. Beautiful troopers that they are, it’s hard not to wish for a battalion rather than
From Isobel Johnston… January is generally regarded as a time when most galleries are closed – everyone’s on holidays and nothing much happens. The gallery year really gears up in February, when Sydneysiders all return to work. While the Sydney
From Ian Houston in Sydney… I’m not ashamed to admit that I love abstract painting. I love the grid, monochromes, gestural works (within reason), hard edge, The New York school I adore De Stijl, and would consider crime to own
Ian Houston reports from parts unknown… After their kind invitation to visit the egalitarian suburb of Woolahara, The Art Life team have upped the ante somewhat and decided to send me to “The Rocks”, home of “the personality gallery”. I’m
The latest poll results for the most influential artist of all time has thrown up some surprising results. As of today, it’s a dead heat between Lloyd Rees, Brett Whiteley, Mike Parr and Mark Titmarsh, with Daniel Mudie Cunningham and
Art Life contributor Ian Houston reports from our second art strip – Queen Street, Paddington – an assignment he took up with gusto… Welcome readers. Today finds us in the heart of the Wentworth electorate, a blue ribbon Liberal seat,
From Isobel Johnston… Fare’s Fair, or the confessions of… While the debate rages in arts magazines and at art institutions on the value, benefit, critical appraisal and proliferation of art fairs around the world, I took what I must confess
The Art Life begins it’s end of year special with a walk down one of Sydney’s art precinct thoroughfares, Glenmore Road in Paddington. It’s meant to be a two-way street but the traffic is viciously one way, get out of
A world without waterNothing here now but saltrusting memories of us. The sun is settingthe winter of a tired old mangoodbye John Winston Howard Fuzzy prime ministersMakes you want to hug themMakes you want to cry
Ian Houston writes from Sydney… Neo Rauch’s Mazernacht. I have seen the future of painting and his name is Neo Rauch. The Art Gallery of NSW has recently hung two works by the East German painter Neo Rauch, Gebot and