http://owencraven.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 17 May 2012 12:55:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://owencraven.com/2012/05/exhibition-not-the-way-home/ http://owencraven.com/2012/05/exhibition-not-the-way-home/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 12:45:45 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=864 An exhibition of works by 13 artists in response to the Australian desert, Not the Way Home is my next curatorial project. In May 2011, ARTIST PROFILE led 13 Australian artists to Fowlers Gap – an Arid Zone Research Station managed by UNSW – for an arts laboratory that asked each of them to respond [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2012/05/exhibition-not-the-way-home/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2012/04/artist-profile-issue-18-out-now/ http://owencraven.com/2012/04/artist-profile-issue-18-out-now/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:18:06 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=856 By flicking through the pages of our current edition, you will notice it is a break from our standard format. That’s because many of the artists featured in the issue took part in an artist expedition to the arid desert of north-west New South Wales, sponsored by ARTIST PROFILE in conjunction with artist material specialists [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2012/04/artist-profile-issue-18-out-now/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/12/season-11-review/ http://owencraven.com/2011/12/season-11-review/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:21:41 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=845 The annual, end-of-year group exhibition at Stills Gallery, Sydney, features an interesting and wide-ranging collection of work from five of the gallery’s artists: Gilbert Garcin, Petrina Hicks, Mark Kimber, Marketa Luskacova, and Danielle Thomson. Stills Gallery is one of Australia’s pre-eminent photographic and multimedia art galleries, representing artists living and working both in Australia and [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/12/season-11-review/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/11/elger-esser/ http://owencraven.com/2011/11/elger-esser/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:14:47 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=835 THE WORK OF internationally renowned, Dusseldorfbased photographic artist Elger Esser depict vast landscapes and seascapes that, on first glance, seem void of human existence. On closer inspection, the human mark on the landscape become evident – a rickety pier, a loan ferry crossing the channel, or a single telegraph pole protruding from an otherwise natural [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/11/elger-esser/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/08/not-the-way-home-dessert-painting/ http://owencraven.com/2011/08/not-the-way-home-dessert-painting/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:39:49 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=824 What you see above is one of the long roads through the Barrier Ranges where in May this year ARTIST PROFILE, in partnership with renowned international paint company Winsor & Newton, took a group of 13 well known Australian artists. We bundled them into a mini-van and drove some 1,100km west of Sydney, past Broken [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/08/not-the-way-home-dessert-painting/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/08/artist-profile-issue-16-out-now/ http://owencraven.com/2011/08/artist-profile-issue-16-out-now/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:31:32 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=819 Sam Leach’s paintings are stunningly rendered and haunting in their subject matter. He paints to investigate the natural world and the ways we relate to it, assembling visual cues from historical painting, scientific pursuits and modern technology to populate his uncanny compositions. For our cover story this issue, Sam Leach welcomed us into his studio [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/08/artist-profile-issue-16-out-now/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/08/sam-leach/ http://owencraven.com/2011/08/sam-leach/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:07:09 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=807 Sam Leach paints to explore his world. He paints to explore his existence, and that of others, within the broader context of life and the universe. Simply put, his paintings explore the notion of what it is to be human. Painting within the framework of history paintings and a still life genre, his landscape and [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/08/sam-leach/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/05/del-kathryn-barton/ http://owencraven.com/2011/05/del-kathryn-barton/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 05:36:18 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=797 Del Kathryn Barton paints for herself. Her works are a journey of self exploration without being autobiographical. Dominated by the fantastical, her figures and creatures explore the notion of human honesty, vulnerability and bodily experience. In a time where the digital predominates many facets of our daily lives, Barton is committed to the handmade; the [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/05/del-kathryn-barton/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/05/artist-profile-issue-15-out-now/ http://owencraven.com/2011/05/artist-profile-issue-15-out-now/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:04:54 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=787 Art making is an immensely personal and private practice. Whether an artist is a painter or a photographer, a sculptor or a printmaker, they use their chosen medium to navigate their thoughts, ideas and world views. In an age where everyone is increasingly connected through new technologies, artists are some of the remaining few whose occupation sees much of their [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/05/artist-profile-issue-15-out-now/feed/ 0 http://owencraven.com/2011/03/not-the-way-home-painting-the-far-west/ http://owencraven.com/2011/03/not-the-way-home-painting-the-far-west/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:40:53 +0000 owencraven http://owencraven.com/?p=780 Last week saw the launch of not the way home :: painting the far west, a working title for the next artist project led and sponsored by ARTIST PROFILE, managed by Owen Craven. Proudly sponsored by Winsor & Newton, the tour will also be followed by ABC Open under producer Sean O’Brien. not the way home will [...]]]> http://owencraven.com/2011/03/not-the-way-home-painting-the-far-west/feed/ 0