The Northern Star - Hang the Expense and Buy some Art by Tracey Horden

HANG THE EXPENSE AND BUY SOME ART

If I had pots of money, I know exactly what I would do. Assuming my home had all the required comforts and conveniences, my money would be spent on art. A lot of people think that art is the last luxury, or lowest priority. But in reality, it is art that lasts; it is art that brings true joy and meaning to our lives. Art, as the saying goes, washes away the dust of everyday life.

I'm especially lucky to know many artists. I could say without much exaggeration that half my friends are artists of one variety or another - painters, sculptors and potters. The only joy greater than buying a piece of art is buying art from someone you love and someone you want to support in their hard choice to be an artist.

Everyone knows the inherent poverty of choosing to make a living from art, especially in the 'emerging' phase. I'm not suggesting buying any piece of art from someone just because you care about him or her, but if you truly love something an artist you are acquainted with has produced, if you can, my strong suggestion is to purchase it.

If my home was to go up in flames I know exactly what I would grab - and that would be my favourite, precious, irreplaceable original paintings. They will be with me until the end and will probably happily adorn the walls of my aged care room facility.

By Tracey Hordern

14 Jan 2019

https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/hang-the-expense-and-buy-some-art/3617871/

South Coast Style Magazine - Alison Mackay & Richard Moorecroft

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Grazier Magazine by Godfrey Deeny

Grazier Magazine

GRAZIER MAGAZINE

Godfrey Deeny, “Fashion Week” Grazier Magazine, May 11 2009 p.24 My one break from fashion was visiting Danks St, Sydney's equivalent of Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Danks turned out to be one short, dark road with an Italian deli and restaurant, plus a hip art gallery, although the opening of artist Megan Seres would not have looked out of place in Manhattan.

Godfrey Deeny, “Fashion Week” Grazier Magazine, May 11 2009 p.24

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The Herald, Newcastle - Archibald Prize by Jill Stowell

FAMOUS FACES

THE Maitland Regional Art Gallery is hosting its first Archibald Prize exhibition, just in time to promote the 2010 competition.

The 2009 works have been on tour for almost a year, providing much of NSW with the chance to share in what is arguably the nation's most popular art event. No other regional gallery can have exhibited these imposing portraits as spaciously as Maitland now can.

We are more or less in the land of giants, with faces two metres high competing for our slightly intimidated attention. Many are as interesting for the handling of paint as for their well-known sitters.

Are there more self-portraits than usual? David Griggs shows himself as terrorist; Robert Hannaford as heroic painter. Michael Zavros reduces himself to dark glasses, shoes and aftershave.

Are there more women? Dame Elisabeth Murdoch by Hong Fu and Margaret Whitlam by Nicholas Harding are accompanied by Gay Bilson by Leeanne Crisp, Marcia Langton by Sam Leach and indigenous artist Nancy Kunoth Petyarr by Jan Williamson. Nell, the media personality and artist born in Maitland, features twice, by senior painter Richard Larter and also by Abbey McCulloch.

There is also more role playing than I remember from the past. Greta Scacchi is shown by Mark Thompson as a glacial Elizabeth I. Megan Seres shows Brendan Cowell as Hamlet. Of course this is essential viewing, if only to see the brooding winning work, singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu painted by Guy Maestri in the dramatic Chiaroscuro of Rembrant.

Jill Stowell, The Herald, Newcastle, March 20 2010, p.11

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