I visited the exhibition Tender at Ngununggula Regional Gallery just 48 hours after my vasectomy. Tender is/was a group exhibition tucked inside a light-filled beautifully renovated dairy shed. The exhibition featured various works from seven female artists: Sally Anderson, Sarah Drinan, Laura Jones, India Mark, Dionisia Salas, Julia Trybala,
This is End of the Rainbow by Jody Glick. You probably have never heard of her, I sure hadn't. And, in my opinion, this is great art. In November last year, I found End of the Rainbow plunked on a plastic fold-out table at the Waverley Art School
Bundanon Art Museum — not to be confused with the nearby town of Bundanoon — is one of Australia's great art experiences. The museum is secluded and built into the hillside, only reachable by a two and a half hour drive from Sydney through the picturesque Kangaroo Valley. On arrival
The story about how a 130 year-old poem changed my life.
Why portraits matter
I am always looking for inspiration. On a walk, I’m stopped by the magnificence of the shade of green a tree is or blooming flower. I feel like the doors of my internal vessel are open to being inspired. While in Tokyo, the Ghibli Museum unexpectedly climbed in and
At first, I didn't really care much for Damien Drew's photography show 'Shikoku no Seijaku', but that's not his fault. Unbeknownst to him, his show presented me with the challenge of reviewing the foreign and unfamiliar. In this specific case, the subject
You are standing in a etherial white space – aka heaven. In this borderless space there are floating windows, each window's view looks out at a mountain range from the eyes of a soaring eagle. Welcome to Hobie Porter's Mountain Shadow - 24 paintings focused on and
I left Sculptures by the Sea laughing and wondering: Who lives at 12 Kennedy Street? This annual exhibition showcases over 100 sculptures in one of Sydney’s most breathtaking locations. Marks Park—a peninsula perched between Bondi and Tamarama—overlooks Sydney’s eastern coastline like a deity surveying its creation.
Robert's show Strange Light left inspired and determined. Spanning Robert’s entire career, this show is marked by a clear divide: the work before and after his stroke. And what the gallery-goer experiences is Robert's refusal to give up painting despite his brain literally erasing his
Art history loves a straight line (not that I've bothered studying it), but this show demonstrates 'art reality', a truthful snap shot of a communities diverse ideas, styles and feelings. It took me a typical three visits to land firmly on the Bull in a China
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