Published 01 September 2019
Interview with Frank Watters (photographed in article).
The hype, the hysteria, the media and the money. Of all Sydney's art prizes it is the Archibald which arouses the greatest public interest...
Published September 1994
Exhibition review Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise? and other paintings Suzanne Treister Contemporary Art Centre South Australia 29 March - 24 April 1994
Western Sydney can be seen as another city with another culture. This is not quite accurate, but it is the fasted growing region where the bulk of the younger population of the city live. And it has art.
Exhibition review Imperfect Drawings Juan Davila Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide South Australia 11 May - 1 June 1994
Not all public institutions are devoted to blockbusters and cultural elitism. Regrettably, contempt for the masses is not anachronistic.
Interview with Tim Storrier.
Exhibition review Laws of Physics/Principles of Mathematics Kate Breakey Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 8 April - 7 May 1994
In recent years there has been a major debate in Sydney on the nature of art education. Both Jacques Delaruelle and Fay Brauer have been active participants. Plants grow in silence but we (in the art world) vegetate noisily. see also article by Fay Brauer (no 665).
Exhibition review em/body recent work by Sue Lorraine Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 13 May - 25 June 1994
Really the only way to understand the apparently large Sydney art scene is to use diagrams and statistics, all of which were compiled by the author.
For 20 years Daniel Thomas lived and worked in Sydney. In the 2 decades since he has left he has remained a frequent visitor, but he still sees Sydney from afar.
Sydney thinks of itself as the centre of the country, the only part that matters, but in the lucrative art market, Sydney is subsidiary to the old moneyed city of the south -- Melbourne.
