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Catherine O'Donnell
Artist Profile, p.86-91
August 2016
Lucy Stranger
For Catherine O'Donnell a later start to art has not limited the conceptual maturity of her practice. She began making art in early 2000, her drive has been fuelled by a lifelong connection to place and the home. Drawn to the familiar and unrepresented. O'Donnell depicts everyday images from plumbing to suburban homes, moving between hyperrealism and abstraction in her construction of geometric shapes and forms. ...more
The Quarterly 2.4
Spring 2016
Brenda May Gallery
Exhibition information and news for the fourth quarter - October to December 2016 - at Brenda May Gallery. ...more
8 Days: Your Sunday to Sunday Planner
SMH (S Liftout)
14 August 2016
Nicole Elphick
The second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial: Close to Home (until December 11) presents images from Jumaadi, Maria Kontis, Richard Lewer, Noel McKenna, Catherine O'Donnell and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. ...more
The Dobell Drawing Biennial: modestly staged, impressively rendered
The Conversation
12 August 2016
Andrew Frost
Catherine O'Donnell's massive Inhabited Space (2015-16) is a wall drawing that depicts the simple lines of the suburban fibro house; its windows and screen doors hyper detailed charcoal on paper drawings. Together, the schematic outline and the detail coalesce, and like Yunupingu's drawings, float between abstraction and figuration. ...more
Glebe artist inspired by childhood fantasy of a pet dugong
Daily Telegraph
11 August 2016
Elizabeth Fortescue
In a consumer society, the precious commodity of imagination is in just as much peril as the gentle dugongs whose dwindling supply of seagrass has put them on the endangered species list. ...more
Close to home: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016
Art Guide website
9 August 2016
Naomi Gall
Presenting the work of six artists, Close to home is the second Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial. Jumaadi, Maria Kontis, Richard Lewer, Noel McKenna, Catherine O'Donnell and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu explore narratives based on memory and experience. With an intense intimacy and personal poignancy, these six storytellers present complex themes, from death to depression, that are both beautiful and unnerving. ...more
Close to Home : Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016
Art Gallery of NSW
July 2016
Anne Ryan
Over the past three decades there has been a significant revival of drawing in Australia. Today there are more artists drawing, and more drawings being made, than ever before.
Close to home, the 2nd Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, includes the work of six artists whose work is connected by a simple thread of visual story-telling. Their drawings are poetic narratives, based on memory and experience. While their subjects come from the particular, they resonate beyond with universal relevance and appeal.
The artists:
- Jumaadi
- Maria Kontis
- Richard Lewer
- Noel McKenna
- Catherine O'Donnell
- Nyapanyapa Yunupingu ...more
8 Days: Your Sunday to Sunday Planner
SMH (S Liftout)
17 July 2016
Nicole Elphick
The architecture of the beach-side suburb is charmingly depicted in Kevin McKay's small oil paintings on display for So Bondi (until August 4). ...more
Environment art is no longer just a political voice but images that stoke the heart with passion
Western Advocate
9 July 2016
Emma Hill
BRAG audiences will remember the highly successful Illumination: New Work by Nicole Welch exhibition, shown here in 2012. Eastern Interiors follows on, utilising similar processes while surveying new forms, destinations and histories.
Beginning in her home of Bathurst and finishing in Albury, Welch has drawn on the historic archives and journals of Thomas Mitchell, explorer and the original Surveyor General of NSW to extract the original pathways into the eastern interior of NSW. ...more
Art & Design
Vogue Living
July 2016
Freya Herring
In Kevin McKay's new exhibition, So Bondi, the historic buildings of Australia's most celebrated beach are given the same dignity as would befit a formal portrait, as Blue Building, North Bondi (2016, above) illustrates. It runs 9 July - 4 August at Sydney's Brenda May Gallery. ...more
Drawn from within
Look
July 2016
John Saxby
Among the works on paper, glass and video that visitors to the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial in 2014 encountered was a gigantic boulder from the state's far west, installed by artist Peter Sharp and evoking the show's landscape theme.
This year's theme - artists' personal narratives of memory and life - aims to reflect a more interior experience. ...more
Visual Art. Op Art
SMH (Spectrum)
25-26 June 2016
Patricia Anderson
Op art is a movement based on optical illusion, which can be traced back to the English artist Brigitte Riley. In this show, a selection of Australian artists has created illusions on canvas, board and aluminum that exercise the eye - and dazzle it too. ...more