Author: jaywp

  • Encounters: A dialogue with art from the past

    There is at present, at the National Gallery in London, an exhibition entitled Encounters, where twenty-four contemporary artists of international stature were invited to choose a work of art in the famous collection as a starting point for a work…

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2000

    Given the characteristic hubris of Tate Modern over the river, it is interesting and also reassuring to find the Royal Academy distinctively following its own direction, as if Sir Giles Gilbert Scott had never been, let alone Herzog and de…

  • Ken Done – Opera house and bridge

    To Sydneysiders and visitors alike the man-made structures of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House have become icons with which the city is readily identified. The technology of the Harbour Bridge was recognised by artists in the 1920s as…

  • Ken Done – beaches and boats

    The view from his studio of Chinaman’s Beach long sustained Ken Done’s artistic inquiry throughout the 1980s and today he continually finds himself returning to it as a special source of inspiration. As if echoing the suffuse patterns of nature,…

  • Ken Done – The Cabin

    The Cabin studio at Mosman, overlooking Chinaman’s Beach on Middle Harbour, was acquired by Ken Done in 1979. It has been the single most important factor in the development of Ken Done’s painting in the 1980s. When Ken Done returned…

  • Ken Done’s Sydney

    Ken Done’s earliest recollections of Sydney Harbour were as a young child during the war. In the early 1940s, before the end of the war precipitated the family’s move to Maclean on the Clarence River on the north coast of…

  • The Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, China

    From the time of his first visit to China in 1976, Dr Arthur M Sackler had expressed a deep interest in helping the archaeologists and art historians of that country in their efforts to conserve the rich heritage of their…

  • The Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

    The Arthur M Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution will open to the public on 28th September, 1987. This is only one of many American institutions – primarily museums and university medical research facilities – that have been supported by…

  • Michael Andrews

    Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me – Recent Paintings by Michael Andrews

  • Caravaggio: A Contemporary View by John Berger, Vol 196 No 998 1983.

    Once I was asked to name my favourite painter. I hesitated, searching for the least knowing, most truthful answer. ‘Caravaggio’. There are nobler painters and painters of greater breadth of vision. There are painters I admire more and who are…