Art news

Check out the works of Steve Gorrow and the Insight design team in the Renault New Generation Art Collection as part of Art Sydney this weekend - Australia's biggest Art Fair at 26-28 Royal Hall of Industries. Head to the Art Sydney website for more info.

As if it wasn’t a work of art in itself, the popular cliff-top walk between Bondi and Tamarama will soon play host to some of the world’s most beautiful sculpture- with Sydney’s annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition returning there this November.
Celebrating its 11th year, the exhibition will see the shoreline dotted with over 100 works by artists from across the world, including famed Australian sculptors such as Anne Ferguson and Michael Le Grand. Sculpture by the Sea is free to the general public and will be running from 1-18 of November. I advise that you pack a picnic, head down to Bondi and enjoy a bit of sun, exercise and culture all at the same time.

Melbourne artist and bandana purveyor Tim Chapman cordially opened his 'I Like Living Crazy' exhibition last Friday night at Schwipe's Don't Come gallery with a hearty grin and some mighty cold beer.
In a refreshing reprisal of the old 'affordable art' bonanza, his amazing clutch of 50 drawings at $50 a pop lured the most rabid throng of art appreciators I've seen yet. His father even flew over from New Zealand's deep south for the affair. Nice one Dad!
More than eager to part with their 'pineapples', the typically black clad crowd were stepping all over each other to snap up one of Chapman's water coloured sharks, pyramid constructions or pop-culture baiting illustrations.
Chapman's works are up for a couple of weeks yet. This is a must see, get on down people.

Muqliza Imroni aka Lisza lives in Jakarta Indonesia and is heading up a new wave of young edgy and talented designers and illustrators from the captial. Her kooky square head figures featured in the Curvy book this year and here's what she say about the-
"Once upon a time up in my head, there was this neighbourhood called "Squared and Disfigured" where all the neighbours are a little too obssesed with fashion that their clothes are worth more than themselves, so they all made a solemn promise which says "a good eye is the only thing you need when it comes to style". Super cute!
Also check out Lisza's jewellery line here.

I could not have more praise for Louise Bourgeois and her macabre mathematical mind. There is precision, obsession, distraction, in her art. Certainly, she knows exactly what she’s doing. The work she produces is a calculated representation of her past, her present, her pains. The beauty, of these pieces, is overwhelming.
The enormity of her suffering, understood though it is, has surely only been eased (suppressed) by creating works that require dedication and calculation to match or surpass a pain accepted, but not yet subsided?

Embroidering chance, and found objects, into absolute intention to sculpt unquestionable inspiration to us civilianoids, Louise Bourgeois is a scientist of emotion, and material.

I, myself, was moved eventually to tears by a bronzed piece ‘Spiral Woman’. No explanation, just a something that triggered another something inside of me – maybe related to a something in my past that’s something I haven’t dealt with, hmm...err. Ah, a little suffering never hurt anyone.

Words by Angie Lawson

www.liz-adams.com

I could not have more praise for Louise Bourgeois and her macabre mathematical mind. There is precision, obsession, distraction, in her art. Certainly, she knows exactly what she’s doing. The work she produces is a calculated representation of her past, her present, her pains. The beauty, of these pieces, is overwhelming.
The enormity of her suffering, understood though it is, has surely only been eased (suppressed) by creating works that require dedication and calculation to match or surpass a pain accepted, but not yet subsided?

Embroidering chance, and found objects, into absolute intention to sculpt unquestionable inspiration to us civilianoids, Louise Bourgeois is a scientist of emotion, and material.

I, myself, was moved eventually to tears by a bronzed piece ‘Spiral Woman’. No explanation, just a something that triggered another something inside of me – maybe related to a something in my past that’s something I haven’t dealt with, hmm...err. Ah, a little suffering never hurt anyone.