Days Like This: Mary Tonkin

Inga Walton  

One of Australia’s most accomplished and vigorous landscape artists, Mary Tonkin works primarily from her family farm at Kalorama, surrounded by the Dandenong Ranges National Park. Established by her Grandfather in the 1930s, the farm supplies rare … Read More

Brethren in Sincerity: The Pre-Raphaelites

Inga Walton

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood … had on their side three things that the English public never forgives: youth, power and enthusiasm.

– Oscar Wilde, The English Renaissance of Art (1882)

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), … Read More

Of Gods & Mortals

The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece

Inga Walton

The British Museum touring exhibition The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, currently at Bendigo Art Gallery (until 9 November, 2014), aims to give viewers an insight into the aesthetic and … Read More

Melburnin’ September 2014

Wedding Glamour at Rippon Lea

by Inga Walton

Currently on display within the historic Rippon Lea House, Love, Desire & Riches – The Fashion of Weddings, (until 30 September, 2014) capitalises on the enduring appeal of the wedding … Read More

Doble & Strong: Synchronous

Inga Walton

As part of the fourteenth biennial Melbourne Art Fair (13-17 August, 2014) Art Equity will début two large-scale works from Doble & Strong. Established artists in their own right who maintain separate careers, painter Robert Doble … Read More

Melburnin’ August 2014

Inga Walton

Liminal_Narratives at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre (until 31 August) is the fourth exhibition in their annual Midwinter Masters series. In her first major venture after retiring as Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, … Read More

William Blake: ‘The Immortal Man That Cannot Die’

by Inga Walton.

“And these are the gems of the Human Soul,
The rubies and pearls of a love-sick eye,
The countless gold of the akeing heart,
The martyr’s groan and the lover’s sigh.” (33-36) – William Blake: The Mental Traveller, … Read More

Melburnin’ JUNE 2014

Curated by Collections Coordinator Jon Buckingham, Revelations: Sculpture From the RMIT Art Collection (until 12 July, 2014) brings together thirty-nine physical works, and photographic imagery of other significant pieces off-site, that reflect a microcosm of stylistic and formal developments … Read More

Genius & Ambition: The Alternative Royal Tour

Inga Walton  

Four years in the planning, the latest exhibition in Bendigo Art Gallery’s continuing engagement with international institutions Genius and Ambition: The Royal Academy of Arts, London 1768-1918 (until 9 June, 2014), is soon to depart these shores for Japan. … Read More

Hugh Knew

Hugh can sing splendidly, and play any musical instrument you throw at him, the son of a son of a son of a son of son of a bitch.

Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot … Read More