Callan Park Gallery

Paul Sedgwick at Callan Park

October 16, 2009 Art+Psyche

Ok, this one’s not obviously about Bali, yet in another way it is. This is a work by Paul Sedgwick (2006) that I saw at the recent exhibition of works from the Peter Fay collection at the Callan Park Gallery. I photographed it then, but wasn’t initially moved. Yet this strange canvas has been working [...]

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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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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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Rosemarie Koczy at Callan Park Gallery

July 29, 2009 Art+Psyche

I visited the Rosemarie Koczy exhibition at Callan Park Gallery last Saturday and was moved by her works on paper – 21 in all, in her Holocaust memorial I am Weaving You a Shroud. Rosemarie Koczy (1939-2007) Uzbekistan Book and Genevieve Roulin’s Operation, 2000 Ink on paper, both 27 x 35 cm The blog My [...]

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Art Lacuna, Callan Park

June 23, 2009 Art+Psyche
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Albert Louden at Callan Park Gallery

May 23, 2009 Art+Psyche

“…It isn’t easy, being an outsider. Once elected, there are appearances to be kept up: the solitary lifestyle, the nutty habits, the freedom from artistic influences. Above all, indifference to earning money. Scrounging for canvas and paint, going without luxuries such as food and socks, are all part of the life of austerity that one’s [...]

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José dos Santos at Callan Park Gallery

April 4, 2009 Art+Psyche

The first show at the new Callan Park Gallery is José dos Santos. SCA has an informative article on this interesting artist who called himself “the greatest sculptor of Portugal”. Thanks to Peter Fay, local collector and curator, almost all of dos Santos’ surviving work has been relocated to Sydney, and is now held by [...]

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The new Callan Park Gallery

April 1, 2009 Art+Psyche

Great news! There’s a new gallery, the Callan Park Gallery, at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) – the first Sydney gallery (as far as I know) specialising in outsider and self-taught art. It’s the showcase for SCA’s new Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection (STOARC), led by Colin Rhodes, Dean of SCA and author [...]

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