by Alan Todd | Jun 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Censorship has always been associated with totalitarian regimes and dictators intent on having control of the message. It goes hand in hand with propaganda. What such regimes assume is a belief in the power of words and image to enact or foment change. Fear is...
by Alan Todd | Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust and mutual understanding. Committees, musicians and any manner of team and familial groups all manage it more or less successfully. For artists though it is a very different matter. Artists traditionally work alone. When...
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...
