Natalie Walton interviews Criena Court for her blog DAILY IMPRINT

“It took Criena Court 10 years to take the plunge and go back to art school, and prioritise her dream of becoming an artist.”

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Congratulations to Geoff who has been selected for the 2012 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize with his painting OLD PADDO

NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize

angles + shapes + geos + space
until 23 May

Sydney Morning Herald
the(sydney)magazine
THE BEST OF ART
27 April 2012
generating buzz
Criena Court: Angles and Shapes
They don’t immediately register as paintings – more as intriguing objects and picture puzzles that play with the shifting prisms of our perception. But just a few years since graduating from the National Art School, Criena Court’s mixed-media assemblages (above) are capturing attention with their beguiling sense of wonder.

BROADSHEET
By Neha Kale, 7th May 2012
Criena Court’s latest exhibition draws unlikely parallels between mathematics and art
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Sydney Morning Herald
OPEN GALLERY
SPECTRUM
5 May 2012
CRIENA COURT
Court’s first solo show, Angles + Shapes + Geos + Space, shows a strong design sensibility in assemblages, geometric paintings and small mixed-media works in which the artist paints in modernist shapes against a photographic landscape.

angles + shapes + geos + space

On exhibition at the National Art School Gallery from tomorrow are the finalists for this year’s Redlands Westpac Art Prize curated by Lindy Lee and won by Ben Quilty

Included are two artists represented by Robin Gibson Gallery – Gina Bruce & David Eastwood, and also in the emerging artists section ceramic artist Addison Marshall who is the gallery’s preparator who has exhibited with us in a number of group shows

video: SMH interviews David Eastwood at Redlands Art Prize

Redlands Website

Geoff Harvey’s statement which John McDonald refers to in this article about Geoff’s work in the current Salon des Refuses…

Lady with Herman – Geoff Harvey
Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with Ermine I consider to be one of the most important works in
Western art, only a handful of authentic panel paintings by him survive.

My painting Lady with Herman is definitely not in the same league but it is an important
painting for me because it is of my partner, Tania Creighton. I wanted to paint a picture that
portrayed her in a relaxed, elegant pose which also showed my devotion to her.

Tania appears refined and somewhat psychologically detached from me, peering at her with
my analytical gaze, struggling as I did to capture her radiant qualities.

Herman is the animated dog mouthing his opinions about contemporary art while actually
thinking about food. The picture for me is reminiscent of the earlier works of Lucian Freud
which was an unintentional by-product of working on a found textural board.

My picture is laden with symbolic meanings but the trouble is I don’t know what they are.

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Rust on canvas wins Gallipoli Prize
Tim Douglas
The Australian
April 23, 2012
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The dogs of war
Matt Buchanan and Sarah McInerney
Sydney Morning Herald
April 24, 2012
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ABC Radio National
Books & Arts Daily
Monday April 23

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NEW TALENT REVISITED

To coincide with our 7th graduate show NEW TALENT currently on view in the the gallery we thought it would be timely to have a look at the work of some of the artists we’ve met through previous NEW TALENT shows whom we continue to work with

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Maggie, I know I keep you amused but I feel I’m being used
by Steve Meacham
smh.com.au
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Lambert Visser
FACES & SPACES
Robin Gibson Gallery
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We’ll be closed from Good Friday until Easter Monday, but we will be here until 8pm tonight for the opening of…

NEW TALENT
Recent Graduates