This site is mainly about painting.  It offers reviews of current exhibitions, books and films,  and discussion of philosophy and theory in art history and criticism.  The views expressed are those of the author and all comment is copyright.

Most images on this site are from photographs taken by me. All other images are drawn from public and commons sites or are credited individually.

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Where galleries have given explicit permission for reproduction of images this is  acknowledged in the individual review with sincere thanks.

Posts can be chosen  by category – see list of topics at the side-bar. These discussions go back several years and reflect my changing engagement with art as a subject and experience. Alternatively by clicking on the Archives all the posts for a given month will appear.

Part of my art-making also involves photography including family history photography, landscape and the use of noir. For the photography collection, posts and comments visit Annette Hamilton’s Image Field here

VISIT MY NEW SUBSTACK PUBLICATION from January 2025

FUGITIVE REGARD: ART-WRITING FROM AUSTRALIA

My art-writing substack publication, Fugitive Regard is named for the problem of fugitive colours, a well-established problem in oil-painting. Many of the most useful and important colours used by artists over the years are fugitive: that is, they appear rich and strong when first painted onto the canvas, but over time and in unstable conditions they can lose their definition, and fade away. Most art-writing is like this: our responses to art change so much, both in personal appreciation and in terms of the Zeitgeist. This is happening a lot at present; a new generation is discovering value in styles and genres of painting long considered irrelevant or even deplorable. I want to come back to some of these changes, and re-consider paintings long ignored and obscured by changing fashions and style-choices. And to step into the simmering soup of philosophy and aesthetics.

There is no paywall on the site. It includes art-writing from my web-archives, and new writing some of which will appear here also, in one version or another.

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