About six months ago, perhaps longer, we were forwarded an email that had been written by the artist Mathieu Gallois and which had been cc’d to perhaps 30 or 40 people in the Sydney art scene. The gist of the
Jane writes in with a request: “I am a mature age fem Uni student[MLitt]/Writer/Poet seeking person/s to share rural acreage in central Queensland. Ph Jane 0749569141” Then Heidi has a thought: “Hi, I am a self taught oil artist and
Every time we think about going to Danks Street, we imagine, “What a good idea, we can check out a whole lot of galleries at once, see everything that’s going on. It’s like the Supacenta of art!” The reality of
One of the galleries we look at through the window but don’t often go into is Conny Dietzschold Gallery and its next door space, Multiple Box. We don’t know how they do it in Germany, but all we can say
The door to Multiple Box swings both ways and we found ourselves inside Gallery Barry Keldoulis with Barry Keldoulis right there, walking around, smiling, tidying up glasses from the night before, saying brightly “Hi, I’m right here – if you
Going into the Brenda May Gallery nearly always feels like an obligation. Until a few years ago, Brenda May Gallery (formerly known as Access Contemporary Art Gallery) was housed in an architect-designed concrete battleship in Surry Hills. It was a
On the way out of Danks Street and really needing a coffee, we stopped in at Stills South to check out their show. Featuring some older works by Trent Park and Narelle Autio and a piece by Anna Noble, the
You remember a few weeks ago we mentioned the group of artists who were getting together to demand a standard rate of pay for artists work exhibited in publicly funded galleries? Well, they have a name now and they’re called
There was a time when The Good Weekend was the epitome of everything that is wrong with Fairfax – elitist, facile and shallow – but along came The Sydney Magazine and changed all that: just when you thought the bar
We had never intended on buying or reading Peter Timm’s book What’s Wrong With Modern Art? We’d seen it in book shops, flicked through a few pages, had a laugh, then got on with our lives. A former art critic