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Instagram Post: ‘Night House II’ Oil on Linen, 1995, 760 x 1215 mm. Private Collection. Last week a relation of my wife, unexpectedly, took her own life. So tonight we post a painting ‘Night House II’ in her memory. And we ask if you have a moment this weekend call and check in on a mate, … Read more
Instagram Post: Great result by International Art Centre this week. We love that ‘Rock of Ages, Rough Ridge’ has come full circle from its home in Europe back to our shores. Oil on Linen. 915 x 1220 mm. 2009. Private Collection. See below for auction catalogue description. Return to News Page
Catalogue Description for ‘Back of the Mangatuas’. Oil on Linen. 305 x 662 mm. 2007. Private Collection. Extract from Art + Object Auction Catalogue 2017. Essay by Hamish Coney. Download PDF at bottom of this page. Grahame Sydney is a supreme articulator of the specificity of place. So many of his widescreen landscapes are not … Read more
Catalogue Description for ‘Slow Sign’. Egg Tempera. 508 x 669 mm. 1975. Private Collection. Extract from Mossgreen-Webb Auction Catalogue 2016. Essay by Peter Simpson. Download PDF at bottom of this page. There is good reason to believe that Grahame Sydney placed a special importance on this painting since in at least two early survey exhibitions, … Read more
An interview by Graham Beattie as featured in Webbs Auction Catalogue 2015. GB: Your paintings are al known for depicting Otago in one way or another. You obviously have a lifelong love affairs with the province. GCS: It all started with holidays in Arrowtown with families from our home neighbourhood when I was about 10 … Read more
Catalogue Description for ‘Homestead with Mt ida’. Oil on Canvas. 650 x 1010 mm. 2004. Private Collection. Extract from Webbs Auction Catalogue 2015. Essay by Elizabeth Rankin. Download PDF at bottom of this page. ‘Homestead with Mt Ida’ is an excellent example of Grahame Sydney’s landscape art, the genre for which he is best known, … Read more
An indepth interview with Mike White as featured in North and South Magazine, 2014. “They call Central ‘Big Sky Country’…The other name they give it is “Sydney Country”. So entwined in the public imagination are the landscapes of Central Otago and Sydney’s portrayal of them that his name has been appropriated for the harsh heartland … Read more
Essay on ‘Nighthouse II’. Oil on Linen. 760 x 1210 mm. 1995. Private Collection. Extract from Dunbar Sloane Auction Catalogue 2012. Download PDF at bottom of page. The land is a shaping influence on every New Zealander’s national, collective psyche. We can measure great tracts of New Zealand through the imagery of our artists, and … Read more
Essay taken from Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures 2011 exhibition catalogue ‘Grahame Sydney: Down South. Recent Paintings (Landscape) 2000 – 2011. Essay by Kevin Ireland. PDF version available at bottom of page. The breathtaking technique of a Grahame Sydney painting seems at first sight to make its subject almost palpably actual. Landscapes, buildings, interiors … Read more
Introduction taken from Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures 2011 exhibition catalogue ‘Grahame Sydney: Down South. Recent Paintings (Landscape) 2000 – 2011. Essay by Helen Kedgley, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art. PDF version available at bottom of page. Down South is a survey of Grahame Sydney’s landscape paintings of the past decade. It is his first … Read more