Art

Maurizio Anzeri – Starting with the Photograph

September 15, 2009 Art+Psyche

I recently came across this UK Guardian slide-show (Saatchi artists at the Michael Hoppen gallery) on artists who manipulate photographs, or otherwise involve them in their art. All of this work’s interesting – and I particularly liked the work of Maurizio Anzeri, two examples of which are below. Maurizio Anzeri Giovanni and Leo 1953 Found [...]

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Tommy Watson at Agathon Galleries

September 8, 2009 Art+Psyche

Tommy Watson Artilanja, 2008 Acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cm I attended the opening of the new Tommy Watson exhibition at Agathon Galleries last Saturday and was stunned by the richness and uniqueness of this work – here is something new in Aboriginal Art. It’s too early for me to say if I like [...]

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August Field and Krishnamurti’s Notebook

September 3, 2009 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd August Field Coloured pencil and ink on paper, 16 x 16 cm (approx) Opening Krishnamurti’s Notebook, after photographing this piece, I chanced upon the following passage: It was an evening of light pink and dark clouds. The moment one stepped out of the house, talking with another of quite different things, that otherness, [...]

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Reece Tong at Callan Park

September 2, 2009 Art+Psyche

More work from the Peter Fay collection, at Callan Park Gallery in August – here’s Reece Tong (born 1968) with two energetic paintings. Reece Tong Bird Seed Reece Tong National Park Trees I love the way the graphic elements in these works float in a void field – whorls (possibly in the sense of these [...]

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The Psyche and Art exhibition (World Psychiatric Association)

September 1, 2009 Art+Psyche

Woke this morning to an email from James F. Kadlec requesting me link to the Psyche and Art exhibition project of the World Psychiatric Association, which I’m very happy to do. According to the prospectus, this was: An exhibition for the World Psychiatric Association 11th International Congress commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the organization, this [...]

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Drover’s Tale (Creatures Drawn to the Beam), Surry Hills

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche
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Christian Den Besten at Callan Park

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche

I visited Callan Park Gallery today to see works from the Peter Fay collection. Peter has a wonderful collection of outsider art, and this was just a small selection. Here’s a little work from the show that caught my eye, by an artist I know almost nothing about (except that I hear he lives in [...]

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Speaking on Process…

August 22, 2009 Art+Psyche

Paul Butzi’s post Words to Remember is an interesting comment on a reflection by Doug Plummer about his own picture-taking process (which Plummer speaks of in his on-line book At the Fill.). It’s a subject I’ve also been thinking a lot about recently. As anyone who reads this blog has noticed, I’ve recently, gradually, moved [...]

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