An Exchange with Artist and Pillar of Inspiration, Jess Harper.
From the moment Jess Harper and I first made contact, I was delighted by her zestful nature, her attentiveness to her craft and unsurpassed passion for art-making. Jess is a mother...
Daniele Lamarche-Sarvia: Anthropologist, Linguist, Artist.
Daniele Lamarche-Sarvia is a distinguished artist and significant contributor to the art world. A native french speaker from Montreal Canada with a succinct interest in anthropology and linguistics, Daniele's art is often a piece of social commentary and her interest surpasses human consciousness and nature.
Australian Artist Georgina Downs on Her Collage Art, Music and Irish Folklore
Cool, calm, collected. Impressions of nature in all its intricacy, we find all of these elements embedded in the art of Georgina Downs’, a collage artist reigning from Victoria.
Artist Ian Burgess: The Inspiration of Australian Soil
A self taught artist who migrated to Australia in 2009. Ian Burgess, originally from the UK, resides by the picturesque and landscape-rich Lake Macquarie, NSW. Living on Australian soil inspires his work in new intricate directions “even if I don’t directly portray a particular place on the canvas” he claims “it is my desire to express the ‘equivalent feeling’ on this patch of earth.”
The Advent of the Online Art Market
Over the past 10 years the art market has substantially stagnated, the quantity of art trading yearly has declined. However, there has not been such a large amount of people engaging with art. As dealers, galleries and auction houses are seeking modish ways to succeed and prosper, the online art market and its increased recognition has given galleries, dealers and auction houses an incredible opportunity to cultivate new art enthusiasts.
Social Realism, New Masses & Diego Rivera
Self-expression and anarchist individuality were the result of isolation and alienation of the artist in a developing capitalist society. Art had become a commodity like any other commodity on the market, and the artist had sold himself as well as his picture.
Pablo Picasso Exhibition: Themes and Variation
Picasso: Themes and Variation was exhibited in Midtown Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit presents 100 works by the prolific Spanish artist and subsequent pioneer of...
Remembering Australian Masterpieces: Ian Fairweather
‘Roi soleil’ (1957)Fairweather is greatly influenced by Oriental art: perhaps more than any other Australian artist of his time. Long periods spent in China, Korea, India and the Pacific Islands...
