Melbourne’s premier urban contemporary art gallery Backwoods welcomes you to celebrate the end of their 12th year in Collingwood, with a group exhibition featuring over 40 Australian and International artists, across multiple mediums of painting, drawing and sculpture. DAVID ‘MEGGS’ HOOKE Over the past 12 years, Backwoods has fostered bold […]
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Episode 6 of Portrait Artist of the Year 2022 (Series 9)
. I provide some detail which got left out of some of the bios on television. Links to websites are embedded in names. The Sitters The sitters this episode were: Jim Carter – a very experienced actor whose roles have included Mr Carson from Downton Abbey – who brought a cricket […]
Spoke Art’s 2021 Year in Review
Goodbye, 2021:A Look Back Exhibitions, Events, Print Releases and everything in-between Congratulations everyone, we did it! Another year gone or a second run at 2020, we’re not sure but we are happy we made it. This year was a rough time for a lot of us no doubt, but the support and […]
Galley to host a 60 year retrospective of the art of Frank McCulloch
Frank McCulloch at the moment has a retrospective at Sumner & Dene. (Courtesy of Melody Mock) The paintings of Frank McCulloch induce the double vision in us all. “1977 Crimson Painting,” Frank McCulloch. (Courtesy of Sumner & Dene) The 92-calendar year-old Albuquerque artist has straddled the crevasse in between representationalism […]
The Appraisal: How the Yayoi Kusama Market Rode a Wave of Affordable Editions to a Record Year at Auction in 2021
Past week, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, introduced that they had jointly obtained Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018). The crowd-satisfying set up will debut in D.C. as portion of its Kusama demonstrate this […]