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 Hey Celia, i came across The Sidney Nolan archive on the art Gallery of N.S.W. His paintings definitely remind me of your landscape paintings because of the rich oil colours.
Head to http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=nolan-sidney to view his works :)
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Hey B.O.W NOW BLAKEHURST! Some inspiration for you all! Here is the ARTEXPRESS 2012 youtube promo video for the Art Gallery of N.S.W which recognise talented N.S.W Secondary School Visual Artists who have excelled in their Body of Work. Use this as inspiration as i would love to see you guys strive towards this! Here we meet Leeanne Carr, curator of the exhibition and three of the student artists who have work in this year's show, in order of appearance, Alexandra Grech, Christopher Fiorini and Cassidy Holland, ARTEXPRESS is a showcase of outstanding visual arts bodies of work from the Higher School Certificate Thanks to Versus http://versusmedia.com.au/ for the video production All the Best Mr Geary. 
 For those of you using Frida Khalo as an inspiration for your B.O.W's, an exhibition dedicated to her life, has hit the city of San Diego!
I hope this exhibition comes to Australia as i would love to visit it! This is great for those of you wanting to become Art Curators! imagine how awesome it would be to curate the Life and Art of Frida Khalo!! Cheers Sammy! Largest Exhibition of the Life and Art of Frida Kahlo Makes U.S. Premiere in San Diego BusinessWire · Oct. 7, 2013 | Last Updated: Oct. 7, 2013 6:39 PM ET The rich and colorful life of Frida Kahlo is revealed in “The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Paintings. Her Life. Her Story. The Exhibition,” making its U.S. premiere in San Diego from October 19, 2013, through January 10, 2014, at historic NTC at Liberty Station. This is the only exhibition worldwide where all of her paintings can be seen in one place. Some paintings, especially from Kahlo’s early years, have never before been seen. Presented by Global Entertainment Properties 1, LLC, (GEP1) the exhibition features 123 replicas of her known paintings in original size and original materials, and hand-painted in the same style as Kahlo painted them. These replicas, owned by GEP1, are painted by master artists and licensed by ©Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. Mariella Remund and Hans-Jürgen Gehrke, passionate art lovers and collectors, and founders of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Baden-Baden, Germany, the city where Kahlo’s father spent his youth before emigrating to Mexico. Their vision for this exhibition was to not only touch the eyes and minds of the visitors, but above all, their hearts. "Working with the talented and knowledgeable team from the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund will allow us to bring an exhibition that represents the largest and most complete Frida Kahlo collection ever assembled to audiences for the first time," said Martin Biallas, CEO of GEP1. "Now visitors will be able to see every aspect of her life through this extensive collection of paintings, artifacts and photographs." According to Gehrke, “The exhibition is about more than just her paintings; it’s about gaining an understanding and appreciation of her life, her contributions to the world of art, her ideas on love and relationships as well as her views on politics.” Also on display are over 500 fascinating possessions—jewelry, dresses and adornments identical to those Kahlo surrounded herself with, coming from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund in Germany. All are handmade using traditional methods, materials, and tools. There is also a substantial collection of photos of Kahlo, her family, and friends in her work and life environments and a large collection of pre-Colombian through present-day Mexican folk art, which held a position of great importance in her andhusband Diego Rivera’s lives. Among the photos, the most admired is the stunning portrait of Kahlo taken by Nickolas Muray in 1939. This photograph, “Frida in Blue Dress,” is a limited edition of a portrait of Kahlo taken by Muray during their ten-year romantic relationship. A favorite display is the recreation of Kahlo’s studio where she painted, as well as the bedroom with her signature canopy bed, reproduced one-to-one in size and materials to the smallest detail. “This 360 degree view of her life and work allows visitors to totally immerse themselves in her artworks and to better understand Kahlo as well as Mexican history and culture,” says Dr. Mariella Remund. Remund explained the reason for replicas instead of originals: All of Kahlo’s original works can never be seen in one place because Diego Rivera directed that her paintings in the Blue House at the moment of her death, cannot leave the Blue House, and a large number of her paintings are privately owned and not available for exhibitions. Born in Coyoacan, Mexico City, in 1907, Kahlo became revered as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Through her art she championed the Mexican culture and became an icon in art, fashion, for the women’s movement and for her political beliefs. Her striking images, tumultuous relationships, passionateand tragic life-story continue to captivate a constantly growing worldwide following. The exhibition is on display in historic Barracks 3 at the NTC Arts & Culture District in Liberty Station, 2765 Truxtun Road, 92106. Audio guides are available in English and Spanish. Tickets range from $12.50 to $16.50. The exhibition is open from Tuesday through Sunday. Details can be found atwww.thecompletefrida.com. Contacts For The Complete Frida Kahlo Delle Willett, 619-665-5981 [email protected] or Hispanic media Johanna Saretzki, 650-995-6733 [email protected] 
 Photo: Glenn Hunt
This is a great controversial artist who you could refer to in your essays on Australian Contemporary Painter- Tyza Stewart who looks at gender and indentity through confronting images of children which resemble her pain growing up The conceptual framework could be used to high light this artist in regards to the artist, artwork, world and audiences reaction as her works have been banned from Art Galleries. A debate we could have in class is how far is too far when it comes to Art and pushing the boundaries. Painter Tyza Stewart blurs the lines drawn between male and femaleDateSeptember 27, 2013 At 14, you write this: ''The thing to top my birthday wishlist is to be a guy and have a guy friend who would be as gay as I would be. This will never appear on lists that other people leave, obviously.'' I knew there were going to be people who found the work tough ... but I hadn't ever considered this was child exploitation. Gallerist Bruce HeiserThose words come from the notebook of Brisbane artist Tyza Stewart. Now 22, Stewart is an emerging artist whose work deals with issues of transgender and identity. Stewart doesn't buy into the gendered pronouns of he or she, instead wishing that gender didn't matter at all. ''I guess I wasn't really aware of anything like transgender issues, I was more aware of gay and lesbian, so I kind of gravitated a little bit towards that,'' Stewart says of adolescence. ''My dad had some psychology text books from uni and I'd been reading about that a bit and it just seemed like a medicalised disorder, and it wasn't portrayed as anything that could be a gender identity. So I think it was a long time before I realised that it could be an identity, something that's not bad, and not medicalised.'' Stewart's work is about the binaries of the feminine and masculine, of socialised behaviours and gender norms. It's also provocative, graphic - delicately painted self-portraits of Stewart's girlish, child-like face appear over naked bodies, often male, sometimes in sexual positions. Others show the same face on an androgynous child's body, gesturing to genitalia that is either apparent or absent. At Stewart's graduation show at the Queensland College of Art a couple of years ago, some of the work came with an explicit content warning. At last week's Sydney Contemporary art fair the reaction was more severe: organisers removed five of Stewart's paintings from display entirely, citing legal advice they would be in contravention of NSW crimes legislation. ''I was just so taken aback,'' Stewart's gallerist, Bruce Heiser, says. ''I knew there were going to be people who found the work tough … but I hadn't ever considered this was child exploitation.'' That Stewart's work was taken down at the behest of fair organisers is a less known fact of the inaugural art fair, news overshadowed by the removal of Melbourne artist Paul Yore's installation under the same legal advice. Yore is facing child pornography charges for work he exhibited at a St Kilda gallery in June, and organisers said last week his installation for Sydney Contemporary would have similarly been in breach of state legislation. Yore's supporters have long said that the seizure of parts of his work took his art out of context and for Stewart and Heiser, the same concern applies. Heiser says he wasn't present when barristers toured the fair ahead of its opening. If he had been, he says he would have explained the genesis of Stewart's work and personal story of a young person grappling with a new sense of self. Stewart doesn't like to talk much, preferring instead to communicate complex ideas visually. The artist does, however, understand that seeing images of children in sexual poses or situations is too much for many, even wrong, but for Stewart, it's the truth. ''It definitely references my own story and the context of where we're living right now,'' Stewart says. ''That's really honest for me to be putting that in there.'' An exhibition of Tyza Stewart's paintings is at 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville, Sydney, until October 6. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/painter-tyza-stewart-blurs-the-lines-drawn-between-male-and-female-20130926-2ugry.html#ixzz2h7VXPpY0 
 For those students in the class using street Art as inspiration for their work's there was a great article in the Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend on one of the most reclusive Artists in the world Banksy! Enjoy! Michael.
Reclusive artist Banksy is loose on the streets of New York, hosting a unique show that has whipped up excitement among hipsters and the chattering classes. The English graffiti maestro, who has never been formally identified, has promised to unveil a new piece of art on each day of October somewhere in New York. His stencilled designs, known for their irreverent humour and political activism, have propelled Banksy from a graffiti rebel to a reluctant star whose work sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Banksy: a month-long residency in New YorkTwo women have their picture taken next to new artwork by British graffiti artist Banksy on West 24th street in New York City. Photo: REUTERS
Painted in secret and announced online, fans rush to track down the elusive piece before they are painted over or "tagged" by rival graffiti artists, often within hours of going viral. And the name of the show? Better Out Than In. "It's just so intriguing, it's like a chase," says actor Lisa Rowe-Beddoe, who has visited each of Banksy's three pieces to date. Her mission is to track down the full set by the end of October. The New York show has an Instagram account, which already has about 30,000 followers. The website banksy.co.uk posts photographs of the work and banksyny tweets cryptic messages on Twitter. "There's something just brilliant about Banksy. He's just so original," says Rowe-Beddoe. "It's interactive. It's cool, plus he says cool things." The latest piece - a black dog urinating on a hydrant with the words, "You complete me", in a speech bubble and the caption, "a shoulder to crayon" - attracted a big crowd on Thursday. Teenagers, artists, and professionals gathered to chat, joke and snap pictures on their mobile phones - posing for the camera as they crouched down and pretended to stroke the dog. "It's a buzz," says Ken Brown, who writes a blog about street culture as he takes pictures of the crowd. "And because he's so well known, it'll be a boon to New York." The self-professed "long-time admirer" tracked down the first Banksy, which appeared on a wall in Chinatown on Tuesday. "I'm a long-time admirer of Banksy," he says. "I feel he's really a rarefied genius. He gets humour and puts a lot of things that are missing into his pieces." Fans can access an audio commentary from a toll-free number inked to the ground, or on the website. The narration from a man with a smooth American accent, introduced by the kind of muzak you hear in elevators, is clever and languid. "Are you looking at one of the great artworks of the 21st century? If so you're in the wrong place. You should be looking at a stencil of a dog peeing on a hydrant," he drawls. "It's a well-known truism that the mark of a great artist is their ability to capture light, so you will note that this piece is rendered entirely in silhouette." It's this irreverence that appeals to Banksy fans. "I've been waiting my whole life since high school to see one," says Ronin Wood, a 24-year-old graphic designer, whipping out his mobile phone in uber-cool art neighbourhood Chelsea. "This is my New York accent" was spray painted in thick letters on a garage door under a disused railway bridge on Wednesday, followed by "... normally I write like this" in smaller italic script. "It's really exciting and really hilarious," says Wood, noting the fresh graffiti was daubed in the heart of the gallery district. Down the road is an art installation of sheep on grass. Next door is a slick gallery. Banksy's views on the exorbitant sums paid for his art have been expressed in the Oscar-nominated documentary, Exit Through The Gift Shop, and people can download photos from his website at no cost. Office manager Mariel Rivera, rushing to work in Chelsea, doubts she'll see the rest in person. "I follow him on Instagram, so I guess I'll see it on my phone," says the 26-year-old. However, already one of the murals has reportedly been white washed. The image, painted in Chinatown, featured a young, barefoot boy standing atop another figure's shoulders, reaching for a can of spray paint hidden inside a Graffiti Is a Crime sign. AFP Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/graffiti-artist-banksy-unveils-nyc-art-20131004-2uzbn.html#ixzz2h7TnCCaG | SHARE.
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