Alexandra Sasse’s art reviews have been published in Trouble and Jackdaw magazines. These are reproduced here along with more general art topics and musings.
‘For the first time, the museum [Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid] is devoting a retrospective to a Spanish woman artist, Isabel Quintanilla (1938-2017), one of the key figures of contemporary realism.’ Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. 2024.
‘Cruel, Clever, Cat’ by Maryanne Wick has been selected as a finalist in the 2023 Fischer’s Ghost Art Award.
Evan Salmon has done it again – selected for a second consecutive year for the Top 100 Hottest artists.
‘There is tenderness and intimacy in everything that Maryanne Wick makes, as well as playfulness and a tendency to fantasy. She has an eye for the overlooked and discarded…’ Hendrik Kolenberg
What exactly are the key concerns of contemporary Australian landscape painting? And who wants to know? Alexandra Sasse takes you deeper into these latest landscapes in this review of the John Leslie Art Prize 2022.
With botanical art we can still find the disciplines of art and science expressing their joint concern for the accurate description of the world…there is a resurgence of realism in contemporary art practice which has inspired many prominent Australian artists to adopt more contemporary interpretations and therefore pushing the boundaries of this art form into mainstream.