Rosalie GASCOIGNE, Down to the silver sea 1981-82
PF: I was very fortunate to meet Rosalie. I met Rosalie at a time when I had left teaching and was starting to make work myself, and had struggled wit...
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Home Sweet Home
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Audio guide to works from the NGA exhibition Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 11 October 2003 – 18 January 2004
Val SUTHERLAND, Shell doll 2000
PF: Val is a New Zealand artist who lives in the sort of hinterland of the North Island, and almost through a rural isolation and very straightened ci...
Slim BARRIE, Lady driver 2000
PF: A very great friend of mine, Nigel Lenden, found one of Slim’s boats in an op-shop in Lakes Entrance, and he rang me immediately and said ‘I’ve fo...
Ricky SWALLOW, Clockman 1998
PF: I’d gone into Darren Knight Gallery, and this tiny piece high up on the wall, just so tiny and vulnerable, and yet I actually didn’t know the refe...
Laurence ABERHART, Moreporks (Bird Skins Room no. 2) Taranaki St, Wellington, 3 October 1995 1995
PF Laurence is a New Zealand photographer, and on this occasion the museum was moving in New Zealand and had been closed down, and Laurence was allowe...
Ken BOTTO, Deep shadows 1983
PF: I was travelling through the United States and had stopped off in San Francisco, and there was an art fair on at the hotel I was staying in. So, I...
Ken WHISSON, Dark sail 1967
PF: I suppose it was through Rosalie that I really got to look at these Ken Whissons and just adored them; they were fantastic. I eventually met Ken, ...
Noel McKENNA, Lost, Heathcliff 2001
PF: Here is this dog… someone’s pet… lost. And what Noel has done here is to recreate in paint the dynamic of the poster, mainly that which has come i...
Robert MACPHERSON, Mayfair: Fresh Cut, 2 Frog Poems and a Rose for William Neaves 1998
PF: MacPherson’s work I have looked at for a long, long time. This particular work; I’ve never really looked upon it as being an image of a vase of fl...
Dallas BRAY, Hairy man 1992
PF: Dallas would primarily be a visual artist; a painter, but every now and again he’s made models, and in an age today of model-making, they are very...