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 | Jan 23, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Artistically speaking, there is no doubt that world looks different now than it did even twenty years ago. This has nothing to do with external stimuli such as a pandemic or global warming but has everything to do with the role that artists have to assume and the way...
by Alan Todd | Dec 30, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
John Ruskin, the English art critic spent the years 1843-1860 writing about art and architecture and producing Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice to try and determine what beauty is through the lens of art, religious belief and...
