Glittering prize: Art NSW '09

The NSW art scene has weathered the financial storm; 10 leading lights pick the year’s top shows and predict the best for 2010.
Article by Steve Dow, 2009

Click here to read the full coverage. Excerpt below quoting the gallery manager, Robert Maconachie.

“The Nora Heysen exhibition that just finished at the S.H. Ervin Gallery was brilliant; beautiful portraits and delicately painted still lives.” The South Australian-born artist, who died in 2003, did her “more sophisticated” work as she grew older, says Maconachie. Meanwhile at Eva Breuer the first exhibition to pair works Judy Cassab and her son John Seed at Eva Breuer had buyers flocking, as did Doreen Gadsby’s show. His 2010 tip? Scottish-born, Sydney resident emerging artist Michael Muir, who’s showing in June 2010.