From Damien Hirst to Andy Warhol, there are major artists on display where you might not expect them.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It wasn’t until I found myself with a restless newborn who needed endless hours being pushed in a pram that I overcame my fear of commercial art galleries.
If you know nothing, art gallerists can tell you everything; if you know a little, they tend to be energised by the opportunity to go deeper. It goes both ways. When the renowned Australian surrealist sculptor Patricia Piccinini was starting out, she worked the door on a Melbourne art co-op, an experience she says gave her an invaluable education in how people interact with art.
Hughes was a gruff giant who I came to learn could be found each morning in that spot drinking coffee and reading the papers. It was from Hughes and later his son, Evan, that I came to understand that art galleries and their owners love tyre kickers like me.Conveniently for us, commercial galleries tend to cluster in geographical locations; among the densest is around Trumper Park, Paddington, where, at any time, it is possible to see more than half a dozen bespoke exhibitions.
is also platforming a female artist, with the veteran Sydney expressionist Vicki Varvaressos showing glazed ceramic sculptures, acrylic portraits and still lifes distinguished by heavy black lines evocative of Charles Blackman’s art. If you like William Kentridge’s art, you will enjoy Orchard’s meditations, which are dominated by suited bald men and occasionally a Pulcinello.In addition to some large oil paintings, there are many simple charcoal renderings on paper, and seeing the collection together reveals how the artist uses drawing to express the gamut of human emotions.also has a single-artist exhibition of new works, except her artist, Australian modernist painter Carl Plate , died in 1977.
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