With a career spanning over 50 years there are many essays published on Grahame and his work. A selection of essays, written about specific paintings, are represented here.
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
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