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LATEST ARTICLES ( 134 )

• Little Things

  

  Cracked (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) This little picture is a finalist in the Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, which opens this Saturday, 10... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• I Think

  

  Returning to Descartes after my own (continuing) decade of communing with the ‘great book of the world’ brings some refreshing sentiments (2006 [1637]: 10). Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Technical Things

  

  It is remarkable how Deleuze has forged the impassioned ramblings of Francis Bacon into a deep and cohesive philosophy. I find there is nothing particularly... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Hand & Eye

  

  Why can’t you be (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) I persist with Deleuze because, like me, he cannot let go of the physical, sensuous nature of painting,... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Onwards

  

  It followed me home (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) I sense a breakthrough on the horizon. I reflect that there must be few people who really attempt... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Disarmed

  

  Fleisch / Meat (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) Reading Deleuze is a somewhat disorienting undertaking, but not without its rewards. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Representation: Some Groundwork

  

  (After Veronese) To establish some groundwork for my investigation into painting as language, I want to linger a while on the concept of representation, at the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gemeinschaft

  

  One does not find one’s people wherever one goes. Kindred spirits are harder to find, even among those with common interests. The minds that encircle me—those... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ever Searching

  

  A pilgrimage to Paris, to encounter Delacroix and Manet in the flesh, reaffirmed that we need not be committed to one way of working. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• On Naturalism

  

  Pantzergasse, Winter (c) 2016 Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) When I paint, I am ever torn between two conflicting intentions. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• At Home with Steven Black

  

  2014.05 (c) Steven Black (oil on canvas) – Courtesy Galerie Thomas Fuchs Long before I met Steven Black, I came to know him indirectly, but in a strangely... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Hopes and Dreams

  

  Lo-fi crowd-funding! These paintings are lining up for new homes. Being Australian, my situation in Europe is always precarious–I live from visa to visa. My vis... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Notation, Language & Painting

  

  Cracked (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) Robert Nelson’s (2010: 167; 169) treatise on The Visual Language of Painting dwells on an analogy between paintin... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Taking Over Again

  

  It’s taking over everything © Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) In other exciting news, this little guy is still charming people, and has just landed in... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Questions

  

  The decision (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) In his eminently readable paper, ‘How I see philosophy’ (collected in the book of the same name), Friedrich... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Borrowed Spaces

  

  An exhibition! I have a collection of still lives and interiors from the collection of homes I’ve had in the past year or two. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Between Dimensions

  

  Ordnung (c) 2016 Ruprecht von Kaufmann (oil on linoleum on canvas) Berlin painter Ruprecht von Kaufmann recently exhibited in several art fairs across the world... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The World Or the Picture

  

  In Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman undertakes an analytical investigation into precisely what qualifies as aesthetic. His search leads him on a rather arduous... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• An Unlikely Protagonist

  

  Aschersleben (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) In Painting as an Art, Richard Wollheim (1987: 85; 101; 183) assigns himself the seemingly insurmountable... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sight & Touch

  

  Tea and sympathy (c) Samantha Groenestyn (oil on linen) The eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder penned some truly delightful thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE