HAUNTING AND ROMANTIC WOMEN Sarah Dolby’s work has always been character driven and combines traditional portraiture with narrative. The haunting, romantic women of her Gothic paintings are often famous literary figures including Ophelia and Mary Shelley, or more recently, fairy tale archetypes. Dolby’s characters are immediately dazzling in their power and beauty, but on closer […]
A COLONIAL PSYCHE Liam Barr’s current practice continues its search to define the New Zealand experience expressed in a series of narrative prints depicting stories of whalers, sailors and early pioneering visitors to this land. Images draw reference from the fictitious to the subjectively factual, weaving stories punctuated with symbolism and iconography to lay bare […]
