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...
by Alan Todd | Apr 25, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
If we had to list the world’s problems we might include climate change, pollution, over population and the endless squabbles over who should be in charge but in the real world of cake manufacture and copyright the priorities are quite different. Just when you think...
by Alan Todd | Apr 18, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
Perhaps as a society we’ve actually grown up. Having seen episode one of Bridgeton and social and emotional suppression taken to extremes, lived through the sexual revolution of the late 60s when for some all ‘rules’ went out of the window, to whatever we have today...
