Dylan press conference, 1986, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
Thought I'd post this previously unseen recording of a Dylan press conference from 1986. I shot it in Brett Whiteley's studio and it's sat on the shelf since then. I found the old tape and thought I'd share it to celebrate the 24th May. Happy Birthday Bob Dylan and thanks for everything you've shared with us over the years. Brendon Stretch 2013 - filmstretch video production Sydney
Wendy Whiteley on the life and work of Brett Whiteley
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Brett Whiteley was one of Australia's most innovative and original artists. Wendy Whiteley, the artist's model and wife for over three decades, shares her recollections of Brett's life and works in conversation with Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art, and talks in particular about the artist's masterpiece, Self portrait in the studio 1976
Bohemian Harbour: Artists of Lavender Bay
The spectacular views from Sydney’s Lavender Bay have inspired generations of artists who have celebrated its great beauty. In the 1970s and early 80s the waterfront enclave became a bayside bohemia and home to some of Sydney’s most recognisable and celebrated artists, including Brett Whiteley and Peter Kingston, along with their neighbours and friends Tom Carment, Philip Cox, Joel Elenberg, Robert Jacks, Rollin Schlicht, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and Tim Storrier.
Film produced for ‘Bohemian Harbour: Artists of Lavender Bay’, on display at the Museum of Sydney from 1 September-25 November 2018.
Wendy Whiteley's Lavender Bay garden oasis has become a Sydney icon
After the death of husband Brett and daughter Arkie, Wendy Whiteley threw herself into her overgrown garden, converting it into a sanctuary on the shores of Sydney Harbour.
Brett Whiteley in his London studio at the age of 26
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Excerpt from the film 'The Australian Londoners' directed by Stefan Sargent. In this clip from the 1965 documentary 'The Australian Londoners', Brett Whiteley, aged 26, discusses why he s an Australian artist is living in London.
Clip courtesy of Stefan Sargent © 1965 Stefan Sargent
Wendy Whiteley - At Home in North Sydney
Wendy Whiteley - on remaking a house and creating a garden at Lavender Bay
Wendy Whiteley moved to Lavender Bay in 1969 ‘by chance’ with her husband, the artist Brett Whiteley, and young daughter Arkie. As she relates in this short interview and home tour, it wasn’t the house that made her stay but its special place beside the harbour and Arkie’s need for a somewhere to call home after years spent overseas in Europe, New York and Fiji.
The house that Wendy, Brett and Arkie occupied was built in 1907 as a single family dwelling – one in a line of five constructed around the same time. By 1969, and possibly as early as 1929, the house was divided to accommodate tenants. The interior staircase was removed. Wendy and her family intially shared the place as separate tenants with the artists Rollin Schlict and Joel Ellenberg; until 1974 when the Whiteleys bought the building and determined to make it a single family dwelling again.
Over the next decade and a half Wendy and Brett reshaped an old house, made dark with small windows and coloured wallpaper, so that it became a home, a studio and, with its new white walls and copious artworks, something of a gallery. An adjoining tower was built to accommodate a circular staircase which restored access between the various floors, but saved the space that would otherwise be taken by reinstated internal stairs. With this addition the Whiteley house became a landmark. It was painted into Australian art history in various of Brett’s most iconic Harbour works which looked out from the house to Lavender Bay.
After Brett’s death in 1992, Wendy turned her attention to the overgrown unused gully at the front of the house, owned by State Rail. Through an extraordinary example of ‘guerrilla gardening’ this was transformed over 20 years into ‘Wendy’s Secret Garden’, an urban oasis enjoyed by locals and visitors alike.
In this short film Wendy talks to Shannon Haritos about living at Lavender Bay and takes her on a tour of her house and garden.
Lloyd Rees - the art of life
We talk to the friends and family of the much-loved and renowned Australian artist Lloyd Rees. Featuring interviews with his son Alan and daughter-in-law Jancis, as well as longtime friends such as Philip Cox, Richard LePlastrier, Hendrik Kolenberg, Joan Domicelj, Wendy Whiteley and Guy Warren, the piece concludes with an excerpt from a 1980s interview with the artist himself. Filmed as part of the exhibition Lloyd Rees: Painting with Pencil 1930-36, held at the Museum of Sydney 12 December 2015 – 10 April 2016.
Wendy Whiteley Interview
An interview with Wendy Whiteley, the wife of artist Brett and mother of actress Arkie, and behind a stunning secret Sydney garden.
Studio 10 | 8:30am on TEN
The Bohemian Harbour exhibition
Providing a haven for bohemian counterculture to thrive in a turbulent social, political and cultural climate, Lavender Bay became the home and inspiration to some of Sydney’s leading artists, including Brett Whiteley and Peter Kingston, along with their neighbours and friends Tom Carment, Philip Cox, Joel Elenberg, Robert Jacks, Rollin Schlicht, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead and Tim Storrier. Rarely seen paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and experimental film from private and public collections will feature alongside interviews with the artists whose relationships and connections made Lavender Bay such an extraordinary hub of creative output.
The exhibition celebrates the ongoing transformation of Lavender Bay and recognises the continuing efforts by resident artists Wendy Whiteley and Peter Kingston to preserve and enhance the area’s rich heritage and lush tranquillity.
Wendy Whiteley - Interior with time past
Brett WHITELEY
Australia 1939 – 1992
Interior with time past 1976
painting: oil, charcoal and ink on canvas
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, purchased 1978
Wendy Whiteley, the wife and partner to Australian artist Brett Whiteley, gives a personal insight into Brett’s painting Interior with time past created in 1976, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Brett Whiteley was a prodigiously talented draughtsman and one of Australia’s most successful artists until his premature death in 1992. Interior with time past is set in Brett and Wendy Whiteley’s house at Lavender Bay, Sydney. The painting includes images of his own drawings and sculptures, their household furniture with a still life of fruit, avocados and a vase of flowers in the foreground, to the magical expansive views out the windows across Sydney Harbour.
From the drawing on the easel of the couple making love, to the still-burning cigarettes, Whiteley evokes both a sense of people just departed as well as a warm and sensuous world of pleasure. Yet, Wendy draws our attention to the transient moments in life in the painting - the cigarettes just extinguished, the dice and lines of a poem depicted on the table.
Filmed on location at the National Gallery of Australia in 2015 and in Lavender Bay, New South Wales in 2016.
Brett Whiteley on Francis Bacon
Australian artist Brett Whiteley discussing Francis Bacon in an excerpt from the documentary Difficult Pleasure, filmed in 1989.
Copyright - Featherstone Productions
Wendy Whiteley - Extended interview
Iconic Sydney artist Brett Whiteley knew Lloyd Rees and his work from a young age and respected him as a mentor. Hear Wendy Whiteley OAM recall some fond memories of their meeting and their friendship. Filmed as part of the exhibition Lloyd Rees: Painting with Pencil 1930-36, held at the Museum of Sydney 12 December 2015 – 10 April 2016.
Brett Whiteley's Advice For Young Artists
Clip from Difficult Pleasure
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Brett Whiteley Talks About The Tarkine
Brett Whiteley 布雷特．懷特利 (1939-1992) Cubism Surrealism Pop Art Australian
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Brett Whiteley, (born April 7, 1939, Sydney, Australia—died c. June 15, 1992, near Wollongong, New South Wales), Australian painter who was admired for the sensuous power of his paintings and his superb draftsmanship.
Whiteley studied at the Julian Ashton art school in Sydney and spent several months in Italy on a traveling art scholarship. In London he was an instant success in the “Recent Australian Painting” exhibition (1961) at Whitechapel Gallery. The Tate Gallery purchased his “Red Painting” from that exhibit, making him the youngest artist so honoured by the gallery.
Under the influence of such artists as his friend and mentor Francis Bacon, whose portrait he painted in 1972, Whiteley abandoned his early abstract style in favour of a more figurative Expressionism. His best-known works of the 1960s included a series of paintings inspired by the British mass murderer John Christie. After visiting the United States and Fiji in the mid-1960s, Whiteley returned to Australia and created a series of Expressionist landscapes. He was made Officer of the Order of Australia in 1991.
布雷特．懷特利（1939年出生的4月7日，澳大利亞悉尼，死亡℃。1992年6月15日，臥龍崗，新南威爾士州附近），誰是欽佩他的繪畫的感性力量和他高超的技法澳大利亞畫家。
懷特利就讀於悉尼朱利安阿什頓藝術學院，並在意大利花了幾個月在行進藝術獎學金。在倫敦，他是在白教堂畫廊“最近澳大利亞繪畫展”（1961）一炮打響。泰特美術館購買了他的“紅色繪畫”從展覽，使他的畫廊獲此殊榮最年輕的藝術家。
在這樣的藝術家他的朋友的影響和指導弗朗西斯·培根，其肖像他在1972年繪，懷特利放棄了他早期的抽象風格，取而代之的是更加形象化表現的。他最著名的20世紀60年代的作品包括一系列由英國大眾兇手約翰·克里斯蒂靈感的畫作。訪問美國和斐濟在60年代中期以後，懷特利回到澳大利亞，並創作了一系列表現主義景觀。他在1991年取得澳大利亞勳章的官
Australian Abstract Painter Sydney Ball
Sydney Ball was one of Australia's great abstract painters who helped pioneer a uniquely local form of the global art movement in the 1970s. This short film features Ball working in his studio and discussing his process.
Brett Whiteley, My Armchair
Cameron Menzies of Menzies Art Brands talks about Brett Whiteley's 1976 masterpiece 'My Armchair' -- the highlight of Menzies' Important Fine Art Auction to be held on the 31st October in Melbourne, Australia. The painting has been out of public view in a private collection ever since it was first exhibited at Australian Galleries in 1976.
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Restored films show Sydney's 60s psychedelica
The sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of Brett Whiteley, Martin Sharp and Peter Kingston's 1960s art scene was captured on film by Garry Shead and his movies have just been restored to give an insight into that time.
Trailer | Whiteley at the Sydney Opera House
Artist. Rebel. Icon.
He burst onto the international art scene, all golden curls and bravado. He was dynamic, damaged, a big idea and a bold brush. With the vivacious Wendy on his arm, Brett Whiteley was magnetic.
In 2019, this Australian icon meets two of Australia’s greatest artists in a brand new work for the Australian stage: Whiteley, by Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming.
Find out more: opera.org.au/whiteley