The Petrina Hicks exhibition, Bleached Gothic, at the NGV in December, 2019, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/petrina-hicks/ was a rich experience. Her photographs date from 2003 to 2019, and are a mysterious portrayal of the female experience. I found the super-real photographs delicate in colour, but intense in content, and it took time to discern the meaning. It was a […]
I was very taken with the Roger Kemp exhibition at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne, https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/roger-kemp/ in December, 2019, for three main reasons. Firstly, we had the opportunity to see the progress of an artist’s work from his youth to later years. He painted with great immediacy, often with oil on cardboard, flattening forms, which linked him […]
Ah!! We had made it to the RA exhibition once again this year, as symbolised by the amazing rose-petal macaroon tower in one of Burlington Arcade’s corner shops. As we turned into the RA courtyard, we were welcomed by Anish Kapoor’s red-disc tribute “Symphony for a Beloved Daughter”. And, once in, hiding unobtrusively up the […]
At a time when the news about the environment saddens us, I wanted in this artwork to convey metaphorically some good aspects about how many people are caring for the world around them. In this piece, I convey how precious this species, the black and white Carnaby cockatoo, has become in Western Australia, and some […]
Life in a Western Town by Lynda Fynn Dickinson A recent video on the Royal Academy of Art, London’s David Remfry, Royal Academician, and his journey in art over many years was very inspiring. In it he shares with us the view that many artists need, for commercial survival, to create something that appeals to […]
I was first introduced to the abstract expressionist painting of Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) after a visit to the Abstract Expressionist exhibition in Bilbao in 2017. It is, however, Motherwell’s paintings on Elegy to the Spanish Republic, painted between 1948-1967, which interest me most. He painted over 100 paintings on the subject, and was always seeking […]
Over time I have become really interested in shapes, and why some artists have a bee in their bonnet about certain shapes which appeal and intrigue, frustrate or mystify – Cezanne and his mountain, for example. During a visit to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 2017, I was also introduced to the work of […]