Artists
The Birds …
Winner of the 2009 Mosman Art Prize, Alex Lavroff is a prodigious and skilled painter. From Moroccan streets to the Bondi Baths, Alex’s work reflects a lifetime of experience in every stroke. Working high above the Sydney skyline with views across the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, Alex’s studio is filled with canvases [...]
What’s not to love about urban decay?
It’s day 9 of a long run of hot days and Tony is telling me he lives in the dark ages and has no air-conditioning. While he leads a modern life in a lovely home in Melbourne’s highly sought-after rag-trade district of Richmond, I get a strong sense that Tony reveres the old, the decaying and [...]
The Wendy Whiteley Interview
By Michel Lawrence Wendy Whiteley now sits atop the Australian art scene as one of the great Grande Dames. A very talented painter herself she met Brett Whiteley as a teenager and lived through great times in post war art. Travelling with Brett as his star rose like a rocket ship, first in London where [...]
Book Review: David Hockney’s self portrait
A Bigger Message. Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford. With 161 illustrations. Published by Thames and Hudson. David Hockney is living proof that a great draughtsman can draw on anything. Of course, Hockney is much more than a good draughtsman. But his drawing has always been beautiful. And now in his 70’s Hockney’s skills [...]
Picture Perfect Richard I’Anson
Richard I’Anson is one of Australia’s most traveled photographers. He is also one of our most publishers photographers with 11 books to his credit published by Lonely Planet. Richard has traveled the world for the past 28 years with a massive library of images of people and places from more than 85 countries and on [...]
Lewis Miller Grand Master
Archibald prize winning painter Lewis Miller likens his life to a game of chess: “ I look at what I’m doing and I think: This is the stage I’m at. But if it goes well this is where it could get to!” Lewis loves working in his somewhat chaotic studio space in Melbourne’s St Kilda: [...]
The dog lover as Printmaker
The Stock Rooms presents Master Printmaker Deborah Williams. Deb is a dog lover. She finds another world explained in her dalliances with dogs and her take on their sometimes very human-like characteristics. Her work is very powerful and uses the techniques of her chosen craft to their full. You can see Deb on The Stock [...]
The StockRooms TV
The Stock Rooms is building a library of online video interviews with contemporary Australian artists so that everyone can share the insights into the artist’s life. The Stock RoomsTV is available on YouTube and now on Vimeo as well. The interviews include discussions on all manner of things including each painter’s source of inspiration [...]
Twigg ship-shape
Julian Twigg paints the ship lane traffic which travels past his boathouse studio daily. The Stock Rooms presents Julian Twigg. Something about salt air brings a new kind of perspective to mundane things. Ships in the night do sound more romantic than ships in the day, but however mundane that subject may be, the thick [...]
Bruce Almighty
The Stock Rooms visits Sydney master print maker Bruce Latimer. Bruce Latimer’s studio is a wonderful mix of artisan’s workshop, bloke’s shed and gallery backroom. Bruce is a master printmaker and his work is full of fine detail and precision draughtsmanship. It also contains Bruce’s take on the modern world and his vision of what [...]
Brett Whiteley @ The Stock Rooms
Three beautifully reproduced iconic images have been authorised from the Wendy Whiteley collection of Brett Whiteley works: Grey Harbour , Lavender Bay in the Rain and The 15 Great Dog Pisses of Paris for exclusive release on The Stock Rooms. The three new prints are the first new authorised release of Whiteley works since his [...]
No Argy Bargy for Dean Bowen at The Stock Rooms
At The Stock Rooms we love Dean Bowen’s quirky take on Australia. It’s rich on metaphors and icons of a life well travelled. Dean Bowen produces a varied range of art from bronze sculptures to large scale oil paintings all featuring his unique sense of humour. Whatever Dean is poking fun at -the morning rush [...]
