I graduated in 2000 with a B.A. Visual Art (Hons). My work has evolved from digital manipulation, photo realism, still life and abstract work. I have been blessed with positive art criticism over the years.
In the mid 1980s ‘appropriation’ was the buzzword. Central to the debate, which accompanied its adoption as a strategy by many artists, was the idea of originality. Appropriation appeared to attack the very foundations of originality and with It the respect…
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Somewhat surprisingly in the company of Sensation artists Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, the recent British television series This is Modern Art (screened on ABC TV) featured Elizabeth Peyton as one of the stars of the contemporary art scene. American figurative…
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An artist from the city’s most famous artistic family is profiled in the latest edition of one of Australia’s leading art magazines. John Hart’s artwork is included in the May-July edition of Australian Art Review (aAR), a quarterly magazine and one of the foremost publications on…
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The other painter was John Hart. His starting point was an especially human interest in sex - that is to say in eroticism. However, while the genesis may have been common enough - digitised images taken from the internet - the final works show much interest in formal…
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If you go to one of artist John Hart’s shows looking for a replica of the work of his late father, Pro Hart, you’re in for a big surprise. John’s work is chalk to his father’s cheese. For a start, John Hart, the eldest sone of the famed Australian painter, works in a finely honed photo…
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Zhong Chen is the latest in a long line of migrants who have made successful careers as artists in Adelaide. His rise can be most relevantly compared with that of Hossein Valamanesh, who arrived here 15 years earlier and now sees his career celebrated in the…
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