by Alan Todd | Jun 2, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork
Image and text can illustrate each other or simply coexist in the same space. In film making, as in life, we accept the juxtaposition. Both image and text can be read as narrative but meaning may evade the audience. A painted surface and a single frame of film suggest...
by Alan Todd | May 30, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
As we come around once again to the ‘major’ awards in Australian painting, The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman, questions of relevance, taste and worthiness arise. These three awards attract the efforts of hundreds of artists each year in the portrait, landscape...
by Alan Todd | May 23, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Is it even possible that two artists, [let alone a collective], can agree on a collective approach, a single idea, a duo methodology that does not compromise both? Or that what they produce has any worth. One of my favourite sayings is that a camel is a horse...
by Alan Todd | May 10, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
As an artist I am increasingly aware of standing outside of time. This isn’t a philosophical state so much as one where a lifetime has become compressed into a largely undifferentiated past. Partly I can put this down to having seen and read so much about art,...
by Alan Todd | May 2, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Review
In a recent article, Rainer Jozeps [In Daily, Adelaide], bemoaned the dearth of fearless arts critics in Adelaide. The word ’fearless’ is contentious in this context. Calling out the ‘bullshit’ is one thing but providing insight, perhaps even insight of which the...
