I enjoyed reading this article by Salman Rushdie in today's New York Times. If you have time please read it. In terms of expressing the issues that are affecting artists and writers globally (and also our literary, artistic and intellectual heritage across all countries and cultures) it makes ...Read more>
A preventable loss. A tragic indictment of the consequences of defensive, frightened government. It is rare today, to find a young person who can do more than download and vomit back out someone else's ideas. So rare to discover minds capable of helping our society, our world, move to ...Read more>
"I'm not afraid of machines," [Ray Bradbury] told Writer's Digest in 1976 . "I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of ...Read more>
In the last 2 days I was told of the death of Jennifer Anderson (Miro) of The Nuns, from cancer at the end of December 2011 at the age of 54. I'm devastated, as with great gusto and positivity about her inclusion in my new series of paintings she collaborated to help ...Read more>
I want to post Richard Flanagan's very brave and eloquent extract from his closing address at the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival- ‘The Australian Disease: The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-freedom’ . It's strange, ten years ago the reasoning behind this piece wouldn't be under such ...Read more>
It is a real change in era when great painters like Leonora Carrington and now, Indian painter Maqbool Fida Hussain, pass out of the present and into the past. his death at 95, so close to Carrington's, underscores this vacuum. As much a victim of right-wing Hindu religious extremism as ...Read more>
The truly great painter, lady and surrealist Leonora Carrington died this week aged 94. She remains my most inspired vision of the world that I seek in all my paintings. Her journey as an artist, the way of it, the sense of it, and the world of her paintings, ...Read more>