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
An essay on ‘Portrait of R Judkins’. Egg Tempera on Gesso. 775 x 595mm. 2002. Private Collection. An extract from ‘New Zealand Portraits’ by Richard Wolfe. Penguin Group 2008. Download PDF at bottom of this page. Grahame Sydney’s rise to prominence as a realist painter followed a successful first exhibition in Auckland in 1975. Since … Read more