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Man, Room, Paint

We started to feel, as we walked through the streets of Chinatown that our sugar high was well and truly over. We felt nervous and irritable and damn this sweaty then freezing weather – you’re too hot under your coat

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Don’t Go Changing

The problem with abstract art is that it’s difficult for critics to build up a long running relationship with it. Once an artist has settled on their style and the audience has assimilated what it is they’re supposed to know

The Atkins Diet

Peter Atkins is an artist who has just finished the late early part of his middle career. He’s yet to go over the hump into middle-middle career where inspiration is something you have to work hard at, and he going

Only Six More Shopping Days

Yes, the Archibald Prize for Portraiture exhibition is nearly over and now we can go back to living our lives again – at least until the exciting Biennale of Sydney opens on June 4. The Archibald exhibition closes this Sunday

The Lotus Eaters

What is not to like about Phatspace? What a gallery, what a feeling, what a hell of an organisation they’ve got over there! Where other galleries rest on their laurels and let business take care of itself once they’ve opened,

Man Eats Steak and Chips Shock

We walked over to Yuill/Crowley Gallery with some trepidation. The “word on the street” was that Adam Cullen’s latest show On My Knees Looking Up was a holding pattern for the artist – nothing bad, but then again nothing new.

Is that a testicle in your beard, or are you just glad to see me?

We received an envelope last week that had a handwritten address on it featuring very attractive looped ‘T’ and ‘A’ s on the words ‘The Art Life and we were impressed by the sender’s penmanship. Normally, enevelopes fron the Art

Mean Streets

Mean Streets

Art Life , Reviews Apr 28, 2004

The streets of Paddington in the morning present a very different kind of reality to the one presented by the well-heeled suburb’s reputation. Oxford Street is cold and unfriendly and you wonder why you left your warm bed for bad

Butterfly Aieeee!

We walked down Elizabeth Street to Blender Gallery . Previously the location of Stills Gallery in the 80s and 90s, the former terrace house is now home to a gallery that has a ‘strong commitment’ to new and emerging talent.

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Reviews Apr 28, 2004

Don’t ask the woman on the desk at the Australian Centre for Photography any questions. Don’t ask her, for instance, how the UNSW College of Fine Arts has become involved in the exhibition of Franco Zecchin, or in fact, what