Art Archives : Alexandra Spring

All the World’s A Stage: Lisa Tomasetti

Alexandra Spring — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:24:07 +0000

A dancer doing a jeté against the New York skyline. Frantic rush-hour commuters sidestepping a flying ballerina. Unexpected, joyful and utterly inspiring, these are some of the images photographer Lisa Tomasetti created with Australian Ballet dancers on their international tours. And now she is sharing them with two major exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne. For […]

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On Reflection: Anish Kapoor at Sydney’s MCA

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:19:39 +0000

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor has known British artist Anish Kapoor for a long time. Her first job in the 1980s was as a curator and driver for the Scottish Arts Council’s travelling gallery, where she showed one of his early works. She remembers being astounded by his work. “There he was with this extraordinary colour, that […]

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Through the Looking Glass: Michael Zavros

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:57:56 +0000

At a glittering, black-tie dinner at Guillaume at Bennelong restaurant at the Sydney Opera House, artist Michael Zavros, wearing a sharply cut tuxedo, bounds up to the podium to rousing applause. At his nearby table, wife Alison Kubler, in her sleek, one-shouldered gown, claps proudly. Smiling broadly, Zavros regales the audience with stories of visiting […]

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Frozen Moment: Martine Emdur

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:27:22 +0000

If there are paintings on the walls of artist Martine Emdur’s living room, I must have overlooked them. Dominating the room is a dramatic view of the Pacific Ocean, framed by French doors flung open on this balmy summer day. Fitting indeed, for the artist who has made her name exploring its depths. “It’s different […]

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The Black Swan: Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:53:10 +0000

In a small side gallery on the upper level of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), there is a large graphite-on-paper drawing entitled Darwin’s Girls. It shows a dead finch, with a tag around each leg, lying on a snapshot of two pretty young girls on holiday. The work is not by Damien […]

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