Archive for the ‘Oil On Panel’ Category

The glorious landscape that has inspired great South Australian artists from Sir Hans Heysen to the present day will be celebrated in the inaugural Heysen Trail Exhibition from February 2010 – a fascinating new type of art exhibition held in multiple venues across South Australia, drawing international attention to the landscape, local artists and their dynamic artworks in equal measure.

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In conversation with birds

Author: Artemisiaband

ANDREW NICHOLLS tracks the new direction of Paul Uhlmann’s recent works, in part made possible by a residency program.

Amidst the crippling shortage of inner-city studio space currently being suffered in Western Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre has been providing relief in the form of a residency program being run from a small studio in its picturesque grounds.

This initiative is proving critical in allowing early and mid-career artists to produce less commercial, exploratory works that may otherwise have gone unrealised. A

case in point was sculptor Susan Flavell’s superb Unhorsed exhibition of large-scale cardboard works, produced in the space during 2007 (see aAR Issue 15). The latest artist to take advantage of the residency is Paul Uhlmann, one of Western Australia’s most prominent mid-career artists, whose practice incorporates painting, print and photography.

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The past is present

Author: Artemisiaband

JOHN MCDONALD takes an admiring glance at the Corotesque landscapes of Michelle Hiscock.

Michelle Hiscock went through her experimental phase while still a student at Canberra School of Arts. As part of a semi-legendary course taught by Petr Herel, called ‘Graphic Investigation’, she sampled all manner of techniques and undertook a succession of conceptual projects. No one would have suspected that almost eighteen years later she would be painting small landscapes in a classical tradition heavily indebted to Claude Lorrain.

Image: Michelle Hiscock, Early Morning, 2008, oil on panel, 27 x 20cm.

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