Posts Tagged ‘course’

Ordinal Steps

Author: Artemisiaband

Elizabeth Ann Crook giggles when she remembers the installment of Absolutely Pleasing where Course (Jennifer Saunders) tells an art gallery subordinate to “modify the knowledge” because she’s retributive a work missy.

Crook is filmmaker of Sydney’s Museum of Peer Art, and she and her curators are constantly in the marketplace on behalf of the MCA, hunt out the art of today and bed their tutored hunches nigh which artists leave survive the fads and fashions of the day.

But regularise Outlaw was once a tyro person, and was a forage to all those feelings of amount which entity umpteen a would-be customer to pause on the ball support of their gear room. What are they doing here, they inquire, without a Jeeves parked out the confront to cart the money around?

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TarraWarra on the Yarra

Author: Artemisiaband

JEREMY ECCLES charts a celebratory course to taste art in the Yarra Valley.

TarraWarra Museum of Art

Healesville

Tuesday to Sunday, 11am–5pm

TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA) is extolled by its director, the legendary Maudie Palmer, as “the first significant museum in the country funded by private individuals”. This, of course, is in contradistinction to those who have built fine collections and donated them to public galleries — the Smorgons to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, for instance, and John Kaldor to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In the near future, we’ll see David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art outside Hobart and Judith Neilson’s Contemporary Chinese collection at a newly completed artspace in inner Sydney’s Chippendale.

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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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