June 2012 was the 250th issue of Art Monthly Australia and I was one of a number of writers commissioned to celebrate the occasion by writing about "critical art writing". My article, which became the lead, was not exactly reverential in tone, in fact I took a fair amount of delight in rubbing in the [...]
Stephen Jones' book Synthetics : Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia 1956 - 1975 was launched last week at the AGNSW. For someone like me who has complained for decades now about the way Australian art history of that period was being written this book is a real breath of fresh air. So I'll [...]
The Darwin and the Art of Evolution Conference was held at the Art Gallery of NSW in September 2010. It was convened by Fay Brauer of the University of NSW and Tony Bond of AGNSW. Speakers at the two day conference covered a range of material both popular and scientific that developed around Charles Darwin's [...]
I produced a lot of work between the late 1960s and early 1972 when I stopped showing in galleries. There are at least 1200 drawings still in existence from this period, mostly for works that have never been exhibited. The works that were exhibited are usually just one of a series of variations and there [...]