The Watermill Center Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With TIME BOMB, A Creative Explosion
ForbesBettina Zilkha
August 2, 2018
The Watermill Center held its 25th Annual Gala, TIME BOMB, at its headquarters Saturday night. Presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and honoring the late Pierre Berge, the aptly named evening featured an explosion of creativity. Over 1,000 guests strolled through the site, where the colorful theme, in tribute to Berge and the Jardins Majorelle, abounded. The evening raised $2.2 million for the center...
There were exciting works to be had at the silent auction, including recent pieces by Rachel Hovnanian, Leila Jeffreys, Hadieh Shafie, and many more. The live auction featured a trio of Keith Haring prints courtesy of the Tony Shafrazi Foundation, and works by Peter Beard, Nan Goldin, Roy Lichtenstein, Masako Miki, Duke Riley, Tseng Kwong Chi, as well as a Robert Wilson video.
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Southampton Welcomes Fine Art Photographer Leila Jeffreys
PuristCarole Reed
July 25, 2018
Ornithologists and art aficionados alike find delight in Leila Jeffreys' winged works.
Conservationist, world traveller and fine art photographer, Leila Jeffreys, grew up in Perth, Australia. She experienced all the boundless travel and exposure to exotic wildlife required for an artist with her particular level of visual acuity. Among the many celebrities, who have taken her under their wing, Jonathan Adler, smartly featured the work of this emerging artist in 20 North American stores in 2010. As both a curator and interior designer, I adore the clean graphic quality of her work, and appreciate the memorable, emotional charge her subjects emit to their viewers.
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Photographer Leila Jeffries Exhibits Exotic Wildlife Works In New Salon Series
KDHamptonsJuly 25, 2018
“I was walking down 5th Ave one evening and in the window of Bergdorfs was the most magical display of a photographers work with brightly festooned mannequins I had ever seen,” shares Carole Reed. “Searching up the artist immediatley I suddenly found myself obsessed by these bird portraits on Instagram, then they appeared behind the shoulder of Brooke Shields in a recent InStyle shoot, it seemed they were everywhere. As both a curator and interior designer I adore the clean graphic quality of her work while also appreciating the memorable emotional charge her subjects emit to their viewers.”
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Review - Unmasking the portraiture of McLean Edwards
www.andrewmcilroy.comAndrew McIlroy
July 9, 2018
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judge, Wendy Sharpe, described Tim Storrier's 2017 winning painting of fellow Australian artist McLean Edwards as "an arresting, intriguing image at once both disturbing and playful". Storrier's portrait of his friend in The Lunar Savant (Portrait of McLean Edwards) indeed presents such a contrast.
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Damien Hirst Denies Ripping Off Female Aboriginal Artists—Was ‘Unaware’ of Their Work
ObserverDaniel Grant
March 29, 2018
Lots of art looks (and sounds and reads) like other art, which is why fine artists and musicians and authors periodically lob accusations of “stealing” at one another.
View works by Kathy Maringka "Tali Ngura - Sandhill Country " and "Tjulpuntjulpunpa " featured in the Olsen Gruin 2017 exhibition "Sharing Country ".
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Taronga Zoo bird display puts visitors 'up close and personal' with endangered species
The Sydney Morning HeraldPeter Hannam
25 Ocrtober 2017
Visitors to Taronga Zoo over the next month are likely to be confronted by an unusual exhibition as they meander between enclosures.
Giant images of 10 birds, some of them endangered, will be scattered at key points around the zoo as part of an inaugural QBE Muse exhibition aimed at highlighting the beautiful intricacy of a species that is too often missed in the zoo and in the wild.
Image: Taronga Zoo bird keeper Brendan Host holds Griffin the sooty owl with an image of the bird taken by photographic artist Leila Jefferys. Photo: Kate Geraghty
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Paul Davies in Los Angeles
domusThe MAK Centre for Art and Architecture West Hollywood and This x That (who dedicates to bringing architecture and design to broader audiences) present a site-specific installation by artist Paul Davies at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles.
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Big Apple Impact
Sydney Morning Herald, Private SydneyAndrew Hornery
21 October 2017
Australian birdlife was also ruffling feathers in New York last week when Sydney gallery owner Tim Olsen had a star-studded cast turn up for the launch of artist Leila Jeffreys' extraordinary bird portraits at his Manhattan gallery Olsen Gruin, which has made quite an impact on the Big Apple art scene in just a few short months.
Image: Brooke Shields with Tim Olsen and Emerald Gruin in New York. Photo: Supplied
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Head to head — Tim Storrier v McLean Edwards in Australia’s richest art prize
The Daily TelegraphJacqui Taffel, Wentworth Courier
17 October 2017
ARTIST McLean Edwards is all over the Doug Moran portrait prize this year.
The two paintings he entered, of film maker Warwick Thornton and a self-portrait, were selected as semi-finalists. The self-portrait made it into the finalists, as did Tim Storrier’s portrait of Edwards, both vying to win $150,000 this week in Australia’s richest art prize.
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Brooke Sheilds Manhattan Townhouse
PEOPLE Hollywood at HomeOctober 2017
Brooke Sheilds' Manhattan Townhouse.
The actress decorates with style and substance.
Feathering her nest - Skye the Cockatoo - one of several large scale bird photos by Shields's friend Australian artist Leila Jeffreys on display - watches over the kitchen...
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Laura Jones | A Diary of a Changing Reef
Dumbo Feather3 September 2017
Laura brings to life her experience of witnessing the Great Barrier Reef’s changing conditions, how she learnt to use her art as a form of activism and how she worked alongside science to interpret and bring attention to the problems that our planet is facing.
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GEORGE BYRNE | JONES MAGAZINE
Jones MagazineGeorgina Safe
August 2017
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MEET PAUL DAVIES | THE AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MAKING DREAMSCAPE ARTWORK YOU
Vogue MagazineFrancesca Wallace
16 August 2017
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THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
14/8/2017
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First look: one of Australia's greatest sculptors Robert Klippel's work is showing in Sydney
VOGUE LIVING AUSTRALIA29 June 2017
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PAUL DAVIES | A MODERNIST MASTERPIECE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS HAS BECOME A META MUSEUM
LA WeeklyJordan Riefe
Thursday June 15 2017
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"Hello my lovelies": Artist John Olsen greets his past at the Art Gallery of NSW Retrospective
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
10 March 2017
"Hello, my lovelies, you are still here," the artist John Olsen exclaims as if approaching old friends. On the wall of the Art Gallery of NSW are a series of oils painted in the early 1960s from which the new retrospective, John Olsen: the you beaut country, borrows its laconic title.
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How art helped John Olsen through heartbreak
The Daily TelegraphElizabeth Fortescue
9 March 2017
ARTISTS often talk about their studios as locations of solitude and retreat. But John Olsen's beautiful Southern Highlands workspace took on an even deeper dimension late last year.
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Powerful Australia: TV Moore
Vogue ItaliaFrancesco Spampinato
March 2014
A 40-year-old from Canberra, Timothy Vernon Moore is one of the stars of the imminent Sydney Biennale, “You imagine what you desire” (21/03 - 9/06), with a retrospective at the Campbelltown Art Centre. Despite the fact that he has lived in New York for some time, Australia remains one of his points of reference.
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Artist John Olsen celebrates 89th birthday at Newcastle Art Gallery
Newcastle HeraldSam Rigney
22 January 2017
ABOUT a year ago, iconic Australian artist John Olsen agreed to create an iconic painting that would capture the essence of his birthplace.
It was a deeply personal work, a reflection on his beginnings.
Unfortunately, illness meant he couldn’t be there when the exhibition opened in November last year.
But on Saturday at Newcastle Art Gallery – just a short distance from his childhood home – Olsen got to share a piece of that work, a slice of the Hunter, with hundreds of other art lovers.
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