Marlene Antico OAM, Founder and Principal Sponsor of the Paddington Art Prize talks to our resident art historian and reporter at large Anthony Frater. The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape. 53 finalists will be on show at what promises to be […]
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Shaun Gladwell’s, Storm Sequence 2000, sent him on a trajectory to become one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists. The largest survey show of his works, Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow, is on now at the MCA until the 7th October. Spanning two decades of his work the exhibition includes video, drawings, prints, paintings, photography, as well […]
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Drugs, Death, Art and Love. This is the stuff of opera. Celebrated composer Elena Kats-Chernin discusses the characters, the music and the long process of collaboration, that after two years has culminated in the opera, Whiteley. Opening this week at the Sydney Opera House it promises a visual feast of Whiteley’s art immersed in a dramatic […]
Read More… from Elena Kats-Chernin’s new opera based on the life of Brett Whiteley