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  • Friedrich and Heade (06 Jun 08)
    There have been massive crowds as the National Galley of Australia's show From Turner to Monet comes to its close with more than 10 000 expected this weekend and on ...
  • Children and art, pornography and politics (29 May 08)
    The continuing fuss about Bill Henson's photographs of nude children has made me think. I am an keen advocate of child protection and a volunteer member of my church's child ...
  • Censoring our disturbing feelings (23 May 08)
    The inclusion of photographs of naked adolescents in an exhibition by noted photographer Bill Henson has provoked undue public attention including from the police--and the Prime Minister no less. Mr ...
  • Creative coinage (21 Apr 08)
    I admire this design for new British coins created by Matthew Dent and based on the shield of the Royal arms. It has a unifying simplicity and beauty as do ...
  • Picturing religion : Blake prize (10 Apr 08)
    I've neglected to take note of the Blake prize the 2004 winner Pieta (Darfur) by Aña Wojak. 2007 saw the award of the 56th Blake Prize for Religious Art to ...
  • Fantauzzo's portrait of a friend (02 Apr 08)
    I wrote recently about the 2008 Archibald and Wynne prize winners. But it is a highly commended entry for the Archibald that is showing most powerfully how a fine portrait ...
  • Mirrored (10 Mar 08)
    Today we much enjoyed Hall of Mirrors an exhibition at theNational Portrait Gallery of works by Anne Zahalka. As the Gallery notes "Zahalka works in series form rigorously establishing an ...
  • The river is calm (07 Mar 08)
    Each year debating the merits of the Archibald Prize for portraiture is something of an Australian national sport. This year's winner is Del Kathryn Barton for her You Are What ...
  • Contemporary Thomas (29 Jul 07)
    I'm attracted to this work of John Granville Gregory Still doubting painted in the 1990s and hanging in St. Philip's Church Alderley Edge Cheshire Bangor Cathedral in North Wales Gregory ...
  • Acteaon (08 Jun 07)
    To mark its exhibition VIP: very important photgraphs 1840s-1940s the National Gallery of Australia has this curious photograph on its Winter events calendar. Acteaon c.1938 (detail) by George Platt Lynes ...
  • Pierre-Joseph Redouté at our place (27 May 07)
    I've just found gold-framed reproductions of these pictures for our home. They are "Lychnide à grandes fleurs" and "Iris xiphium" from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs Panckoucke Paris 1827 from ...
  • Wolfhagen's Wynne (04 Mar 07)
    The annual Archibald prize for portraiture is always controversial and attracts much fanfare; this year it has been won by John Beard for a portrait of artist Janet Laurence. I ...
  • O'Doherty and Mombassa (09 Jan 07)
    The National Trust's S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney has a survey exhibition The Art of Chris O'Doherty aka Reg Mombassa. Musician and artist O'Doherty also works as Reg Mombassa. His ...
  • Power in the abstract (31 Dec 06)
    Yesterday to the National Gallery. I was delighted by the new arrangement of the main galleries with new lighting -- especially the South and Southeast Asian galleries. We saw Grace Crowley: ...
  • Queer John (10 Jun 06)
    The current hoo-hah about The Da Vinci Code has stimulated me to learn something about Leonardo. This is his St. John the Baptist c.1513-1516 from the Louvre. To our eyes ...
  • Sacrifice, photographs and Zen (31 May 06)
    The National Gallery of Australia is staging a travelling exhibition of work by Michael Riley (1960-2004) of the Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi people. Riley was one of Australia's "most important contemporary Indigenous visual ...
  • The Gap (08 Apr 06)
    Australia's most feted (and often controversial) art prize is the Archibald prize for portraiture. But the oldest major art prize is the Wynne prize. This year's Wynne prizewinner is John ...
  • Arresting Constable (27 Mar 06)
    Recently we saw the NGA's Constable: Impressions of Land Sea and Sky. The show has only a small number of John Constable's large pictures including Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's ...
  • The vast open sky (03 Mar 06)
    The National Gallery of Australia recently acquired this untitled 1977 55cm x 75cm landscape by Fred Williams (1927-1982) Australia's finest C20th landscape painter. It depicts the low rounded hills ...
  • A true treasure (02 Jan 06)
    At the National Library yesterday we saw Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries which is also represented in a fine online exhibition. As a travelling exhibition it is modest in scale ...
  • Christmas masterworks (10 Dec 05)
    Take a look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's simple but beautiful online exhibition of masterworks about "The Christmas Story"Andrea Mantegna. The Adoration of the Shepherds shortly after 1450. Andrea ...
  • Cecil Beaton (22 Nov 05)
    Commemorating the centenary of his birth Australia's National Portrait Gallery is showing a exhibition of portraits by Sir Cecil Beaton that has previously been staged at the National Portrait Galley ...
  • Glass and Ecstacy (22 Nov 05)
    We're taking advantage of a vacation to soak up some art and music; yesterday to the National Gallery of Australia to see Transformations: the language of craft an exhibition of ...
  • Attracted by understatement (20 Aug 05)
    'Alexandra' is an art teacher from in the English Midlands. Her discovery of the male form as a major subject for her work came by accident when one of her ...
  • An afternoon with two of Australia's best painters (07 May 05)
    Recently James and I saw two very different exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia: Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective and James Gleeson: beyond the screen of sight. Cossington Smith ...
  • Dürer's St. Philip (01 May 05)
    Today at St. Philip's church we celebrated the feast of St. Philip and St. James. I wrote a small pamphlet about him. It's not especially original; most of the information ...
  • Preston paintings and prints (30 Dec 04)
    'Wheelflower' c.1929 woodblock print 44.2 x 44.1 cm collection of the National Gallery of AustraliaMargaret Preston (1875-1963) is among my favorite Australian artists. Preston is especially known for her woodblock ...
  • Iconic comfort (18 Aug 04)
    Among the kind messages I received assuring me of prayers following the death of my mother was a card depicting an icon of Christ the Lord made by Kathyrn Carrington ...
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