ROBYN SWEANEY Hidden in Plain Sight ROBYN SWEANEY Hidden in Plain Sight

2 – 20 June 2020

Robyn Sweaney responds to the ways in which cultural identity can be read through the physical and philosophical undulations of landscape, both manmade and natural. Her characteristically detailed paintings picture ubiquitous suburban dwellings and coastal terrain held at the mercy of time, containing within their ageing walls and ancient flora the spectres of emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual experience.

Sweaney’s new series of paintings trace lived and remembered steps across and Victoria, exploring the mnemonic potential of the mundane. The sheer ‘ordinariness’ of her domestic dwellings signals a kind of exotic-everyday; treasure hidden in plain sight. Rendering each residence with mimetic In some of the works, Sweaney draws from a month-long residency at Gate Keeper’s Cottage, Police Point, precision and sensitivity, the artist forces the viewer to focus on the bypassed and the forgotten – retro on the traditional lands of the Bunurong people. This Victorian coastline holds personal gravity for the artist, abodes so engrained in the Australian landscape that they have become invisible. Sweaney denies us the who spent her childhood around Portsea and Sorrento, living in a beach shack built by her father after he ability to peer inside, their reflective windows, closed blinds and drawn curtains functioning as foils for our returned from the war. She recalls, ‘it was a simple structure made from second-hand materials and filled curiosity. She questions, ‘behind these walls, do the spaces retain the happiness, the tragedies, the with handmade bunk beds and unwanted old furniture. Collected driftwood and shells adorned the shelves day-to-day ordinariness of people’s lives?’ and walls. It was nestled at the foot of high grassy sand dunes and surrounded by a thick canopy of indigenous Moonah and Tee Tree…’ Revisiting these places – now containing but a few humble dwellings Created during the bushfire tragedies, these paintings have taken on a subtle new palette in their smoky yet to be demolished – unearths for Sweaney recollections of wandering along hidden beach tracks through single-toned skies. We can feel the flecks of ash in the air and the parched, fiery breath of the wind. Light, old middens and sandy remnants of fossilised forests. The scent of the sea and the dry salty grasses wafts space, symmetry and balance converge as Sweaney engages with a traditional Western approach to from within her coastal compositions, with exposed, twisted Moonah trees standing defiantly as living landscape painting, employing single point perspective to create an illusion of depth. Yet this illusionary artefacts and enduring shelters. ‘Their strength is in their presence’, reflects Sweaney. depth – assisted by impeccably detailed foliage, building textures and shadows – falls flat against the vacant, film set skies, creating an uncanny relay between the landscape real and the landscape Native florals also feature in this exhibition – not merely as picturesque still lives but as embodiments of remembered. Meanwhile, her new graphite works on paper relegate these residences to the irrevocably memory and place. Flowering gums collected near her late mother’s house in Victoria symbolise for the faraway past, their monochrome rendering simulating old photographs or partial memories. artist ‘joyful abundance’ – attracting birds, insects and people alike. ‘Their beauty and blossoms are so fleeting yet so life affirming’, says Sweaney. Pried from their place of origin and recontextualised in a vase, Sweaney grapples with the nebulous notion of home in an age where instability seems to threaten every these florals become revenant presences from another time and place. They hover against a dark abyss like crevasse of our existence. From global crises such as climate change, overpopulation and political conflicts, a flash of memory, threatening to disappear in an instant. to local disasters like the recent wildfires, ‘home’ is not the stable entity it once was. It is shifting, expanding – perhaps, even, eroding. And yet, in our temporary culture of isolation, traditional concepts of For Sweaney experiencing landscapes is so much more than what is evident; perceptible. There are home as a protector, a sanctuary, have been revitalised. We resonate with these painted vacant vistas, alternate versions, ones that are sensed and remembered, and ones that are imagined. The works in where human absence mingles with an unseen presence – signalled by a freshly mowed lawn, half-open ‘Hidden in plain sight’ reveal the profound poetry that can be distilled from residue and relic. Within these window or bins out for collection. They feel at once haunting and familiar, combining notions of desertion liminal places, we witness the forgotten beauty that lingers deep within the aged walls of our collective and abandonment with the comfort and belonging of home. history. The paintings function as ethnographic time capsules; portraits of yesterday and today. Signs of life acrylic on linen 73 x 183 cm (framed) $12,500 Behind these walls acrylic on polycotton 73 x 153 cm (framed) $10,500 Hidden in plain sight acrylic on polycotton 59 x 70 cm (framed) $5,800 Between two worlds acrylic on polycotton 53 x 73 cm (framed) $5,600 Silent witness acrylic on polycotton 43 x 53 cm (framed) $4,800 Where light falls acrylic on polycotton 43 x 53 cm (framed) $4,800 Lost in thought acrylic on polycotton 43 x 53 cm (framed) $4,800 Equilibrium acrylic on polycotton 53 x 73 cm (framed) $5,600 Now and tomorrow acrylic on polycotton 31 x 39 cm (framed) $3,500 River view acrylic on polycotton 59 x 70 cm (framed) $5,800 Lovestruck acrylic on linen 50 x 31 cm (framed) $3,800 Heartland I Heartland II acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton 39 x 31 cm (framed) 39 x 31 cm (framed) $3,500 $3,500 Heartland III Heartland IV acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton 39 x 31 cm (framed) 39 x 31 cm (framed) $3,500 $3,500 Way of the wind I Way of the wind II gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) $2,950 $2,950 Moonah Shades of green gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) $2,950 $2,950 Parallel connection The purple place gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) $2,950 $2,950 Moonah study I (top right) graphite on paper 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) $980

Moonah study II (below) graphite on paper 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) $980

Moonah study III (bottom right) graphite on paper 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) $980 (clockwise from top right) House study I graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

House study II graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

House study III graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

House study IV graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

(clockwise from top right) Dwell I graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell II graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell III graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell IV graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 (clockwise from top right) Dwell V graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell VI graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell VII graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell VIII graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 (clockwise from top right) Dwell IX graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell X graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell XI graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950

Dwell XII graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 Signs of life Behind these walls Hidden in plain sight Between two worlds Silent witness acrylic on linen acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton 73 x 183 cm (framed) 73 x 153 cm (framed) 59 x 70 cm (framed) 53 x 73 cm (framed) 43 x 53 cm (framed) •$12,500 •$10,500 •$5,800 •$5,600 •$4,800

Where night falls Lost in thought Heartland I Heartland II Heartland III acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton 43 x 53 cm (framed) 43 x 53 cm (framed) 39 x 31 cm (framed) 39 x 31 cm (framed) 39 x 31 cm (framed) $4,800 $4,800 $3,500 $3,500 $3,500 • • • ACQUIRE • Heartland IV Way of the wind I Way of the wind II The purple place Shades of green acrylic on polycotton gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper 39 x 31 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) $3,500 $2,950 $2,950 $2,950 $2,950 • ACQUIRE • • •

Moonah Parallel connection House study I House study II House study III gouache on watercolour paper gouache on watercolour paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper 35 x 48 cm (framed) 35 x 48 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) $2,950 $2,950 $950 $950 $950 • • ACQUIRE ACQUIRE • House study IV Moonah study I Moonah study II Moonah study III Dwell I graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) 28.5 x 34.5 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 $980 $980 $980 $950 ACQUIRE • ACQUIRE ACQUIRE ACQUIRE

Dwell II Dwell III Dwell IV Dwell V Dwell VI graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 $950 $950 $950 $950 ACQUIRE • • • • Dwell VII Dwell VIII Dwell IX Dwell X Dwell XI graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper graphite on paper 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) 22 x 27 cm (framed) $950 $950 $950 $950 $950 ACQUIRE ACQUIRE ACQUIRE • ACQUIRE

Dwell XII Equilibrium Now and tomorrow River view Lovestruck graphite on paper acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on polycotton acrylic on linen 22 x 27 cm (framed) 53 x 73 cm (framed) 31 x 39 cm (framed) 59 x 70 cm (framed) 50 x 31 cm (framed) $950 $5,600 $3,500 $5,800 $3,800 • • • • ACQUIRE ROBYN SWEANEY

Born 1957, Melbourne,

EDUCATION 1978 Bachelor of Education – Arts and Craft, State College of Victoria, VIC 2011 , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Finalist Paddington Art Prize, , NSW, Highly Commended AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, , QLD, Finalist 2019 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Finalist The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist Trustees Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Winner The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist Korean- Prize (KAAF), Sydney, NSW, Finalist 2010 The Portrait Prize, NSW, Highly Commended Police Point Artist Residency, Gatekeepers Cottage, Portsea, VIC Stanthorpe Art Festival, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, QLD, Acquired 2018 Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane, QLD, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2017 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Finalist , Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Finalist The June Hedditch Studio - Apartments Residency, The Arts Company, Portland, QLD 2009 Country Energy Landscape Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, Highly Commended Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane, QLD, Highly Commended Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Finalist Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2016 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW, Winner Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist Allan Gamble Memorial Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Winner Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW EMSLA, Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane, QLD, Finalist 2008 Hill End Artists In Residence Program – Murray’s Cottage, NSW 2015 Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Highly Commended Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW, Open 2nd Prize Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane, QLD, Finalist EMSLA, Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Finalist Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW, Finalist 2014 Gallipoli Art Prize, Gallipoli Memorial Club, NSW, Finalist 2007 Country Energy Landscape Prize, Dubbo Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist , Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD, Finalist EMSLA, Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Hutchins Art Prize, The Hutchins Foundation, TAS, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist 2013 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Finalist Macarthur Cook Art Awards, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, VIC, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Prometheus Visual Arts Prize, The Prometheus Foundation, QLD, Finalist , Fleurieu Biennale, McLaren Vale, SA, Finalist 2005 Country Energy Landscape Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist 2012 The Broken Hill Art Exchange Residency. NSW JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist Salon des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2004 The June Hedditch Studio - Apartments Residency, The Arts Company, Portland, QLD Paddington Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist JADA, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney, NSW, Finalist 2003 The Pink Poodle Art Prize, Bond University Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD, Commended Gallipoli Art Prize, Gallipoli Memorial Club, NSW, Finalist 2002 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, NSW, Highly Commended Northern Rivers Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, Finalist 2001 St Hilda’s Festival of Arts – Painting, Highly Commended ROBYN SWEANEY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS ‘Australia Fair’, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW 2019 ‘Dwell’, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, , NSW 2011 ‘The Australian Character, works from the collection’, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret 2018 ‘Backwards looking forwards’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah ‘The Nature of Things’, Anthea Polson Art, Southport, QLD 2010 ‘The Distance Between Knowing and Not Knowing’, Art Piece Gallery, , NSW 2017 ‘The Summer That Was’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘The Industrialists’, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW 2016 ‘Fade to blue’, Anthea Polson Art, Southport, QLD ‘Countryscapes’, Chifley Tower, Sydney, NSW ‘Looking Sideways, Heading West’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2009 ‘About a Tree’, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW 2013 ‘Topia’, Anthea Polson Art, Southport, QLD ‘The Collectors Paradise Show’, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, NSW ‘Finding Mrs Frisby’, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW ‘Industrialists’, QDOS Gallery, Lorne, VIC ‘A quiet obsession… Mrs Violet Frisby’, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Hot In The City’, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2011 ‘Road Trip, from here to there and places in-between’, Anthea Polson Art, Southport, QLD 2008 ‘HOME’, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW 2009 ‘New Work’, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Wish You Were Here, Friends Exhibition’, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art 2007 ‘Emoh Ruo’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW 2006 ‘The house beautiful’, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW ‘Solstice, a winter exhibition’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2004 ‘A rose is a rose...’, Portland Bay Press, Portland, QLD ‘2 X 2’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2003 ‘Sub rosa series’, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW ‘Countryscapes’, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo, NSW ‘Sub rosa’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW 2007 ‘Come Hither: Interpretations of the Boudoir’, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW 1994 ‘From my life at home’, Griffith Fine Art Gallery, Condong, NSW ‘Solstice, a winter exhibition’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW 1992 ‘Connections’, Cape Gallery, , NSW 2006 ‘Local Art’, LRG, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Byron Bay, NSW ‘FEHVA Exhibition and Auction’, Byron Bay Community Centre, Byron Bay, NSW SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ‘Identity’, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW 2020 Summer’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2005 ‘Countryscapes’, Parliament of New South Wales, Fountain Court Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2019 ‘Reflections of a Fading Sky’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Print Night’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW ‘Summer Salon’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘c.a.s.e...unpacked’, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW 2018 ‘Three Decades: Celebrating the Tweed Regional Gallery Collection’, Tweed Regional ‘Man's best friend’, next contemporary art space, S. C. University, Lismore, NSW Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW 2004 ‘Lismore Regional Treasures’, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW ‘New Galleries’, State Library New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2003 ‘The Inaugural Print Night’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW ‘The Way You Came’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW ‘Postcard Show’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW 2017 ‘Sydney Contemporary – Arthouse Gallery’, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW 2002 ‘Art as Investment’, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, NSW ‘House Show’, Constance ARI, Hobart, TAS ‘Erotica [e]’, Print Portfolio, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, NSW ‘The Bridges: The Second Year’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW ‘Doors of Perception’, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW 2016 ‘Planting Dreams: Celebrating Australian gardens’, State Library NSW, Sydney, NSW ‘The Popular Pet Show’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT SELECTED COLLECTIONS ‘Sensations: Accessing Collections’, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW Artbank, Sydney, NSW 2015 ‘Unfolding Splendor’, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, NSW Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD ‘The Garden Show’, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD ROBYN SWEANEY

Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW Nerida Woolley, ‘Border Art Prize’, , 2008 Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW John McDonald, ‘Full of life, still or otherwise’, SMH, 2008 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, NSW ‘ArtPost’, ABC TV & Regional Arts, Web profile – Photos & Interview David Batty, Rebel Films, 2008 Southern Downs Regional Art Collection, Stanthorpe, QLD Sonia Caeiro, ‘Artist Profile’, North Coast ARTS Quarterly, Summer, 2008 Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW ‘House Painter: Conversation with Robyn Sweaney’, Radio National, By Design, 2007 Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Council, NSW ‘Beyond Region: Public Galleries in New South Wales’, published by Arts New South Wales,M&GNSW and the Australia Council, 2007 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Melitta Firth, ‘Van Speed Dating: First Cabs Off The Rank!’, Visual Arts Network News, 2007 E.Walsh, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’, Catalogue Essay, 2020 Carmel Dwyer, ‘Tim Olsen gets serious’, Australian Art Collector, 2007 John McDonald, ‘Salon des Refuses: No need for consolation tones’, SMH, Spectrum, 2018 Steven Alderton, ‘A year of art - Steven gives us his top ten’, The Northern Star, 2006 Artist Profile, ‘Robyn Sweaney’ Issue 42, 2018 Rosie Lee, North Coast Arts Quarterly, 2006 BAM. Byron Art Magazine, ‘Feature’, Summer 17, Issue 8, p.32 Louise Beaumont, Echo, 2006 Andrew Frost, ‘Archibald 2017: objections to winning work are merely whinges over style’, Guardian, 2017 Steven Alderton, ‘A brushstroke in time’, The Northern Star, 2006 Candida Baker, ‘Time & Tide shortlisted for the Wynne’, Verandah Magazine, 2017 Candida Baker, ‘Is it a book?’, The Northern Star, 2006 Alana Wilson, ‘Congratulations Robyn Sweaney, 2017 Wynne Prize Finalist’, Byron Arts Magazine, 2017 Sarah Engledow, ‘The Popular Pet Show – Catalogue Essay’, National Portrait Gallery,Canberra, 2016 Sarah Engledow, ‘The Popular Pet Show – Catalogue Essay’, National Portrait Gallery,Canberra, 2016 Richard Aitken, ‘Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens’, State Library of NSW, 2016 Karen Viggers, ‘Pets get top billing in Popular Pet Show at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra’, SMH, 4 Nov 2016 Sally Pryor, ‘Dogs get star billing in The Popular Pet Show at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra’, 3 Nov 2016 Sharne Wolff, ‘The Short List, 20 Things to See, Hear and Do this Weekend’, SMH, 2016 Alana Wilson, ‘Interview’, BAM. Byron Art Magazine, Issue 1 John McDonald, ‘More than face value’, SMH, Spectrum, 2013 John McDonald, ‘Salon des Refuses’, SMH, Spectrum, 2012 Marina Saint Martin, ‘No place like...’ Artworld: The , 2011 Sharne Wolff, ‘A Platform for Legends’, The Art Life, 2011 Dominic Feain, ‘Mrs Frisby’s Brush with fame’, The Northern Star, 2011 Lissa Christopher, ‘Open Gallery’, SMH, Spectrum, 2009 Laura Jan Shore and Bev Sweeney (eds), ‘All the way home: Poetry from Byron Bay and beyond’, illustrated by Robyn Sweaney, Byron Bay: Dangerously Poetic Press, 2009 Melitta Firth, ‘Case Study’, Arts Northern Rivers, VAN Report, 2009 ‘Sunday Arts’, ABC TV, Episode 16 John McDonald, ‘When losers are winners – Salon Des Refuses’, SMH, Spectrum, 2009 Steven Alderton, ‘Lismore hosts the Country Energy Art Prize’, The Northern Star, Art Speak, 2009 66 McLachlan Avenue Rushcutters Bay NSW 2011 +61 2 9332 1019 [email protected] www.arthousegallery.com.au