Sasha Grishin
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at This Is Canberra
Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, who works internationally as an art historian and art critic
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6 days ago |
aboutregional.com.au | Sasha Grishin
Fifty years ago, three circumstances came together that led to Sidney Nolan’s gift to the nation. Nolan (1917-1992), who was then aged in his late 50s and had spent the preceding couple of decades living in England, was homesick and wanted to leave a major legacy for the country of his birth. For artists, the arts climate in Australia changed with the election of the Gough Whitlam federal Labor government in 1972 and Nolan felt that the time was right to support the arts in Australia.
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6 days ago |
thisiscanberra.com | Sasha Grishin
Thom Roberts is an artist who has to transform the world around him into his own terms to make sense of it. He then proceeds to paint this transformed world. On encountering people, trains, buildings or cities, he has to give each of them his own nickname and then endows them with peculiar conceptual and visual attributes. For example, Shane Simpson is a high-profile, Sydney-based, art-loving lawyer who is on the board of many cultural institutions.
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1 week ago |
region.com.au | Sasha Grishin
Thom Roberts is an artist who has to transform the world around him into his own terms to make sense of it. He then proceeds to paint this transformed world. On encountering people, trains, buildings or cities, he has to give each of them his own nickname and then endows them with peculiar conceptual and visual attributes. For example, Shame Simpson is a high-profile, Sydney-based, art-loving lawyer who is on the board of many cultural institutions.
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1 week ago |
region.com.au | Sasha Grishin
Among First Nations Peoples, the Aṉangu men across the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands have a technique of rattling spears before a battle or a war commences. They call this ‘Tirkilpa’. The late Willy Kaika Burton explains: “We have a technique where we roll spears over each other to make this noise. A long time ago, this noise would be heard before a battle began. Sometimes I hear the Tirkilpa today; it is a different battle today, but the fight is real for us.
Edvard Munch’s Man with horse – a major coup for the National Gallery of Australia | Region Canberra
1 week ago |
region.com.au | Sasha Grishin
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker who had a huge impact on European art. His 1893 work, The Scream (that exists in a number of versions), is an iconic image in Western art and is well known and frequently parodied in popular culture. The painting Man with horse, 1918, donated to the National Gallery of Australia by Geoff Ainsworth AM, is a relatively late work in Munch’s career.
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Thom Roberts is an unusual artist who rethinks and transforms the world around him and paints this transformed vision. https://t.co/siTIov4B1r
If you are coming to Canberra, there is a strong, largely unpublicised exhibition at the National Gallery, Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa. It is an installation made up of about 2,500 carved wooden spears suspended from the ceiling. https://t.co/DYxx9Okx0k
An Edvard Munch painting for the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. https://t.co/jYjI4Ylli4 https://t.co/5jzlmwW1eU