Tag Archives: Andrew Baker Art Dealer

Sam Bullock: Autistic spectrum – Darkness and light

15 September 2021 | Art Almanac

Sam Bullock’s paintings are boldly energetic and bursting with vibrant colour and narrative. ‘Autistic spectrum: Darkness and light’ features a series of portraits of people Bullock loves or admires....

Michael Cook: Natures mortes

5 April 2021 | Art Almanac

For ‘Natures mortes’, Michael Cook turns to the art-historical tradition of still life; choreographed arrangements of plants, animals, objects and food filled with potent symbolism and inky darkness....

Andrew Baker Art Dealer

16 April 2020 | Art Almanac

In his new series ‘Livin’ the dream’, Michael Cook imagines the impact of dislocation and the inequality with which Australia continues to live. Explore the exhibition via a 3D virtual tour....

Eric Bridgeman: KALA BÜNG (Colours join together)

27 July 2018 | Natasha Matila-Smith

In Eric Bridgeman’s latest solo exhibition ‘KALA BÜNG (Colours join together)’, the artist presents a new installation of ‘shield paintings’, text pieces and photographic portraits taken in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The body of work has been brewing for some time, with his initial drawings and...

Fiona Foley: Horror has a face

29 November 2017 | Carrie McCarthy

Though Fiona Foley sees herself more as an educator than a political artist, her work is by its very nature political in that it challenges historical and cultural perceptions and threatens some of this country’s most deeply held national myths....

Leonard Brown: Experience untaught me the world

9 June 2017 | Sasha Grishin

Leonard Brown employs traditional materials, prayer and meditation techniques to create icons adhering to the conventions of the Holy Russian Orthodox Church, whilst working in a contemporary idiom of abstraction....

Ian Friend: Musæum – Fragments of Former Worlds (Works from 1983–2016)

5 April 2017 | Art Almanac

The works on paper in this show “present a private museum, some works retained or never exhibited over the years, as fragments of my former worlds” that have been “hard won, in the extended time frame that it takes to bring them to some form of...

Suja’s Daughters: Painted barkcloths by Ömie people from Papua New Guinea

5 June 2013 | Art Almanac

The title of the exhibition refers to the Ömie creation story, which explains how Suja (the first Ömie woman and ‘mother of the world’) was instructed by Mina (the first Ömie man) to create the very first barkcloth....

Michael Cook: Civilised

27 November 2012 | Art Almanac

Portraying a mixture of historical fact and fiction Michael Cook’s latest suite of photographs advance a parade of unrealised scenarios from colonial times. Entitled ‘Civilised’, this suite presents illusory narratives from Australia’s colonial past which are filled with supposition and conjecture....