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Making Art in words and paint
Grahame Sydney, artist, recalls a significant book. It lay beside my bed through most of my teenaged years, one of two constant companions of my privately turbulent adolescence. The other was Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit, and both paperbacks grew…
Thoughts well-wrought, Damian Love
View from the South Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney photographer) Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9780143771845 It often seems to be the case that novelists, when they turn to verse, move with a more relaxed gait, a less self-conscious regard, than those whose…
Tagged with: Damian Love, Grahame Sydney, Issue 123, Owen Marshall, Spring 2018, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
No country for old men, Megan Dunn
Grahame Sydney Paintings 1974-2014 Grahame Sydney (essay by Vincent O’Sullivan) Craig Potton Publishing, $100.00, ISBN 9781927213254 Myself, Looking Back is Grahame Sydney’s extensive memoir of his childhood and formative artistic years up until his sell-out solo exhibition in 1975. Early…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Grahame Sydney, Issue 110, Megan Dunn, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2015
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Shooting the south, Stella Ramage
White Silence: Grahame Sydney’s Antarctica Grahame Sydney Viking, $115.00, ISBN 9780670072538 How does the sustained gaze of the landscape painter, obsessively re-imagining the sun-scorched expanses of Central Otago in a million meticulous brushstrokes, adjust to the mechanical snap of a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Grahame Sydney, Issue 85, Stella Ramage, Viking
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Objects in a landscape, Bill Sewell
The Art of Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney and contributors Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 1 877135 31 3 The Central Otago I know does not figure much in Grahame Sydney’s art. The particular area I remember best is the Strath Taieri,…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Grahame Sydney, Issue 44, Longacre Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
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