Around Brisbane_Segment 19/04/2010

I've made myself a 'thing' - once a week, I'll attend a gallery opening, or a workshop. Art related and in any genre I fancy.
So, last weekend, I attended a workshop hosted by The Artshed, West End and watched about four or five hours of visiting landscape artist John Wilson in action. John Wilson is one of Australia's leading oil painters. He grew up on the mountains and attended Katoomba primary and high schools. Now John is a Multi-Award winning artist, whose elegant paintings capture the more elusive qualities unique to our Australian landscape. His works, considered highly collectable are represented in private, corporate and public collections throughout Australia and internationally.

I was engaged completely by John's ease of presentation and painting up beautiful rich NSW scenes of early morning, mid day and evening light scenes... the great thing was, John talked through theory, respected artists and trials and tribulations, which had followed him up to this point of his painting career and life. Incredibly talented, and wonderful to watch at work...
John's gallery is right protected, and I'd like to respect that; to click on http://www.johnwilsongallery.com/ to see his profile and current paintings.

So, to another form of art, which possibly couldn't keep the attention span going for five hours, but was surely a good talk and exhibition - Kinkdom Cum - chaired by Danielle Clej, talking to artists Stephen and Jose about their current works. The pieces of both artists worked well together, with Jose's minimalist approach to the subject of masculine sexuality, as opposed to the works of Stephen, who'd digitally created erotic pieces, masculine, but removed from heterosexual standpoint. Again, no pictures - small low key sort of event....

Coming up during May, Ron Mueck's larger than life exhibition at the GoMa... one to keep and eye out for...