Maryanne Wick: The poetic fragment.
‘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
Art Reviews and more
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.
John Leslie Art Prize 2022 Review
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.
Dr John Pastoriza-Pinol introduces Simon Deere and Dianne Emery exhibition
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.
Simon Deere and Dianne Emery Exhibition
Award-winning artists’ reverent and intimate exploration of form, colour, and design foregrounds our need to connect in a meaningful and constructive way with the nature. Simon Deere’s interpretations of natural forms in decay evoke a sense of fragility and the bizarre. Dianne Emery’s acute perception unites scientific detail with sensibility, creating images of extraordinary beauty.
Gideon Haigh Introduces John Scurry Exhibition
‘These are paintings on which to hone your faculties of perception and meditation.’ Gideon Haigh. 2022.
An Intimate Distance: conversations with artists during lockdown. 3 Hendrik Kolenberg
An Intimate Distance: conversations with artists during lockdown #3. Hendrik Kolenberg talks with Alexandra from his home and studio in Sydney. October 2021. What personal impact has the pandemic had on you? I don’t know anyone who has had COVID but my brother died about a month ago in Adelaide, of cancer. His eldest daughter, …