Articles and Reviews

A Big Day For... A New Start in Art

You remember them, don't you? The steel sculptures of athletes appearing to strain and swing off the top of Sydney Tower, commissioned to celebrate the Sydney Olympics in 2000? ... read more

Australia Day: The nation in landscape

The Herald invited 12 artists to share a glimpse of the country through their eyes. ... read more

Right Now Art

Sacred Geometry

Paul Daives's paintings reveal his passion for modernist architectur, with the geometry of his house subjects juxtaposed against the surrounding landscape.

Paul Davies

Paul Davies upcoming exhibition at the Tim Olsen Gallery 'Pentimento' February 22 - March 12 2012 is featured in the February edition of Art Alamanc, Australias gallery guide. ... read more

Walking on Eyre

From Lake Eyre to Sydney Harbour the Australian landscape remains a treasured muse for John Olsen, one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists.

I'm Not Ready to Go Yet

John Olsen, our greatest living artist on squeezing the juice from his final years.

Visceral Experience

THE dark and moody portrait of anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson was painted “with blood, bone and fat”, according to the artist. ... read more

Yolngu Boy

Guy Maestri’s portrait of the musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, was conceived after the artist saw Gurrumul perform in Sydney on New Years Eve 2008. Maestri found the performance unforgettable and recalled that, ‘word had been going around all day and the rumours were true- people really were moved to tears.’ ... read more

Robert Malherbe Masterclass

Artist friends, Nicholas Harding and Robert Malherbe, dscuss the influence of past masters on teir drawing practices, and what is it about these hisotrical innovators that makes their influence so enduring

Marie Hagerty's Mutating Canvases

Prue Gibson explores the artists swelling and elastic forms which appear to change shape before the viewers eye. ... read more

Maestri's Portrait of a Landscape in Town

Sydney gallerist Tim Olsen claims a Victorian link by recalling his childhood at the Dunmoochin artist's
colony, when the likes of Fred Williams, John Brack and Albert Tucker would come to dine with his father, the artist John Olsen.
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Best In Show

Surreal films, fine antiquities, 3D video installations and melancholy photography will broaden your mind over the coming months
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Colour Schemes

The act of putting paint on canvas creates fascinating tensions between the cerebral, the sensual and the suggestive. ... read more

Arts - About Town

Paul Davies: Tim Olsen pop-up gallery. A Sydney artist and quintessentially Sydney gallerist in Melbourne? ... read more

Couples have wedding registries down to a fine art

By the time Felicity Smith and Paul Lowe decided to get married, they owned a house in Darlinghurst and had enough kitchenware and manchester to last them decades. Rather than risk an avalanche of salad bowls and steak knives on their wedding day next month, the couple have asked guests to contribute towards at $12,000 abstract painting.
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